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Lucy, the Junk Dealer's Daughter

Capo 2nd fret


A            E            A        D                        A
Close to the noise of the highway, under the light from the stars,
D                    A           D                      E
Lucy and Howard were lovers amid hundreds of rusted-out cars.
    A           E         A                    D                  A
The moon on the Chevrolet graveyard turned the piles of junk into gold
    D                      A            E                         A
For Lucy the junk dealer's daughter and Howard from the Highway Patrol.

Surrounded by mountains of metal, twenty-four cars to a stack,
Lucy and Howard were lovers in the wreck of a gold Cadillac.
Oh, never a rendezvous sweeter, a tale of more purity told
Than of Lucy the junk dealer's daughter and Howard from the Highway Patrol.

E                   A        E                         A    
Lucy and Howard got married, moved to the good side of town.
     E                         A            B7                         E
They felt as the weeks drifted by them, the pace of their love slowing down.
     A            E         A                D                         A
They seemed to be growing indifferent; their passionate love had grown cold.
     D                       A              E                         A
Poor Lucy, the junk dealer's daughter, poor Howard from the Highway Patrol.


D   A   E   A

Then Howard got off work one midnight; his mood was decidedly black.
But when he pulled into his driveway, there was a wrecked Cadillac.
And every sweet evening thereafter, out to the driveway, they stole -
Lucy the junk dealer's daughter and Howard from the Highway Patrol.

(Words and music by Tom Paxton, 1976)

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