Egg and Daughter Nite
John Prine

CAPO 2nd Fret

D
If you like your apples sweet and your streets are not concrete
D                                   A
You'll be in your bed by nine every night
A
Take your hand-spanked, corn-fed gal and your best friend's four-legged pal
A                                       D
To a treat right down the street thats dynamite
D
Let your conscience be your guide if you put your foot inside
D7                                 G
You wish you left your well-enough alone
G                                D            B
When you got hell to pay put the truth on layaway
    E                A          D 
And blame it on that ole' crazy bone
D     G
Crazy bone (crazy bone)
G     D
Crazy bone (crazy bone)
         E                                A
Well you wish you'd left your well-enough alone
     G                           D            B
When you got hell to pay put the truth on layaway
    E               A          D
And blame it on the ole' crazy bone

D
Don't be stuck up in Alaska when you should be in Nebraska
D                                      A
On a Thursday when it's Egg & Daughter Nite
A
When the farmers come to town and they spread them eggs around
A                                                D
And they drop their daughters down at the roller rink
D
Well you're prob'ly standin' there with your slicked-back, Brylcreem hair
D7                                       G
Your Lucky's and your daddy's fine-tooth comb
G                                   D                     B
If they knew what you were thinkin' they'd run you out of Lincoln
     E                A          D 
Just blame it on that ole' crazy bone
D     G
Crazy bone (crazy bone)
D     G
Crazy bone (crazy bone)
         E                                    A
Well you must have left your wisdom tooth at home
        G                           D                     B
If they knew what you were thinkin' they'd run you out of Lincoln
E               A          D
Blame it on the ole' crazy bone

VOCAL BREAK ON 1ST TWO LINES OF VERSE:   D    A    D

D
When the grandkids all are grown and they put you in a home
D                           A
And eternity is approachin' fast 
A
Yeah you're half out of your head and you probably pissed the bed 
A                                      D
And you can't see a thing to save your ass
D
And far across the prairie (prairie) in the local cemetery ('tery)
D7                                       G
They already got your name carved out in stone
G                                 D                 B
When all them nurses say "Grandpa why you walk that way?"
     E                A          D
Just blame it on that ole' crazy bone
     E                 A 
Yeah blame it on that ole'  (Pause)
      G
Crazy bone (crazy bone)
G     D
Crazy bone (crazy bone)
         E                       A
And everybody in that old folks' home
        G                                  D              B
If they knew what you were thinkin' they'd run you out of Lincoln
     E                A          D
Just blame it on that ole' crazy bone
    E         A                  D          
And everybody in that old folks' home
     E                A          D
Yeah blame it on that ole' crazy bone
