Bb

[Verse 1]
Bb
Well it bleeds like steak but it isn’t steak
Cm
I’m dying for a taste of the genuine fake
Eb
There ain’t nothing you can’t shape
Eb
From corn and soybeans
Cm
Blue eyed Jesus, billboard babies
Bb
Picking away at a long dead barn finch
Cm
Bones hollow like heritage it’s
Eb
A feeling you can’t shake
Eb
In a world so mean and
Cm
Mangled up with memory
           Gm               Bb
How did it go, the one you liked?

[Chorus]
Eb  Cm   Gm
Ba ba...  Barbara Ann
Eb  Cm  Eb                          Bb
Ba ba... Barbara Ann, don’t fuck around
Gm
With a Louisville Slugger under
      Bb
Your side of the bed
               Eb         Gm
No one’s gonna hurt you now
Bb             Eb
No one’s gonna hurt you

[Verse 2]
Bb
With cherries dropping like
Bb
Baby teeth you dropped
Cm
Baby fat you start Making babies
Eb                         Bb
Dark as death and twice as funny
Cm
Spitting stones at far off lightning
Bb
It strikes like god and it burns like meat
Cm
Like the current in the fence in the singular heat
Eb
It’s the palm on the line you laid this morning
Cm
The life you chose that sent you reeling
            Gm
How did it go, how was it

[Chorus]
Eb  Cm   Gm
Ba ba...  Barbara Ann
Eb  Cm  Eb                          Bb
Ba ba... Barbara Ann, don’t fuck around
Gm
With a Louisville Slugger under
      Bb
Your side of the bed
               Eb         Gm
No one’s gonna hurt you now
Bb             Eb        Gm
No one’s gonna hurt you now
Bb             Eb        Gm
No one’s gonna hurt you now

[Final]
Cm Gm Bb Eb   Cm Gm Bb Eb
Cm Gm Bb Eb   Cm Gm Bb Eb
Cm Gm Bb Eb   Cm