From: “Empire Burlesque” (1985) The original is played with a different tuning. This is a version for Standard tuning. G* 3-x-0-0-0-x G 3-x-0-0-0-3 ------------ [Intro] | * | | * | | | * | | * | | [Verse] 1 Oh the gentlemen are talking and the midnight moon is on the riverside They’re drinking up and walking and it is time for me to slide I live in a- nother world where life and death are memorized Where the earth is strung with lovers’ pearls and all I see are dark eyes [Interlude] 2/4 | * | | * | | | [Verse] 2 A cock is crowing far away and another soldier’s deep in prayer Some mother’s child has gone astray she can’t find him anywhere But I can hear another drum beating for the dead that rise Whom nature’s beast fears as they come and all I see are dark eyes [Interlude] | * | | * | | [Verse] 3 They tell me to be discreet for all intended purposes They tell me revenge is sweet and from where they stand I’m sure it is. But I feel nothing for their game where beauty goes unrecognized All I feel is heat and flame and all I see are dark eyes. [Interlude] | * | | * | | | * | | * | | [Verse] 4 Oh the French girl she’s in paradise and a drunken man is at the wheel Hunger pays a heavy price to the falling gods of speed and steel Oh time is short and the days are sweet and passion rules the arrow that flies A million faces at my feet but all I see are dark eyes [Solo] | * | | * | | | * | | * | | | | | | | | * | | * | | [Coda] | * |