Donald And Lydia Chords
by John Prine
Donald And Lydia by John Prine is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, F, D7, G7 and C7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Song : Donald And Lydia (Mod.not to slow 3/4 timing)
C F C
Small town bright lights Saturday night,
D7 G7
Pin balls and pool halls flashing their lights
C F C
Making change behind a counter in a penny arcade,
G7 C
Sat the fat girl daughter of Virginia and Ray (spoken) Lydia
F C D7 G7
Lydia hid her thoughts like a cat, behind her small eyes sunk deep in her fat
C F C
She read romance magazines up in her room
G7 C
And felt just like Sunday on Saturday afternoon
(Chorus)
G7 F C G7 C
But dreaming just comes natural like the first breath from a baby
C7 F C G7 C
Like sunshine feeding daisies, Like the love hidden deep in your heart
C F C
Bunkbeds shaved heads Saturday night
D7 G7
A ware house of strangers with sixty watt lights
C F C G7 C
Staring though the ceiling just wanting to be, lay a one of to many a young PFC (spoken) Donald
C F C
There were spaces between Donald and what ever he said
D7 G7
Strangers had forced him to live in his head
C F C
He envisioned the details of romantic scenes after midnight in the stillness of
G7 C
the barrack's latrine
(repeat chorus)
C F C D7 G7
Hot love, cold love, no love at all, a portrait of guilt is hung on the wall
C F C G7 C
Nothing is wrong, nothing is right, Donald and Lydia made love that night (spoken) Love
G7 C F C
They made love in the mountains , they made love in the streams
D7 G7
They made love in the valleys , they made love in their dreams
C F
But when they were fininshed , there was nothing to say
C G7 C C7
'Cause mostly they made love from ten miles away
(repeat chorus)