Standard Tuning

 

First Verse
     D             
I'm Den-nis Du-pree from Dan-ville, I've moved in-to your town. 
 G                                   D       
Den-nis Du-pree from Dan-ville, I'm here to take a look a-round.
 A7                   G7                          D              
Get this a-cross, Du-pree is boss, There must be some-thin' hap-p'nin in

your town.



2nd Verse
    D 
I went down to the street, babe, to look at the flash-ing lights.
    G                             D           
I lived down on the street, babe,noth-ing there is out of sight. 
  A7                   G7                          D              
Get this a-cross, Du-pree is boss, There must be some-thin' hap-p'nin in

your town.


 1st Chorus
   G                               D  
I went down to the drug store, to buy my-self some shades,
   G                                 A7        
What do you think I found there?, A girl who was quite the rave.
 
                                                   
 2nd Chorus
 G                                       D  
What's the mat-ter with your town?, The sights and sounds are dead.,
   G                                 A7        
You treat me like a poor town, when ci-ty life is in your head.

Outro 
 A7                   G7                          D              
Get this a-cross, Du-pree is boss, There must be some-thin' hap-p'nin in
           F             C
your town.                       Ah.

This Saturday's Children song is basically a blues progression in the key of "D". Incidentally, Dennis Dupree is an actual person and a friend of Saturday's Children and The Cryan' Shames from the 1960's.

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