INTRO:
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VERSE:
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In '46 we moved out here to Beaumont
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Start a little business of our own
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They built a freeway through in '62
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Everything we had's now is lost and gone

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I see the men in the distance from my window
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Faces in the cars look straight ahead
      G                       F
They roll on by too loud for comfort
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But too far away to rent a motel bed

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CHORUS:
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So, if you're passing on your way
      C               G
From Palm Springs to A .

        C                D
Give a wave to good ol' Dave
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Say hello to progress
          C          D               G
And good bye to the Moonlight Motor Inn

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VERSE:
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Mother's sleeping in the back room
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TV show as are the only life she has
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Her son's now a captain in the Air Force
              C                                    G
And he can't find the time to write his proud ol' dad

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Our daughter wants to leave the place at eighteen
          C                           G
And run away with a jobless Beaumont man
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To hitch hike out of California
            C                          G
And make a life in the Rocky Mountain land


CHORUS:
G                              F
So, if you're passing on your way
      C               G
From Palm Springs to A .

        C                D
Give a wave to good ol' Dave
 C             D
Say hello to progress
          C          D               G
And good bye to the Moonlight Motor Inn

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INSTRUMENTAL:
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VERSE:
     G                        F
The sun comes up behind the freeway
              C                             G
And dad sits down by the dried up swimming pool

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 G                              F
Can't make the payments on the mortgage
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Cant turn the red ink into blue

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Weeds are growing through the gravel
          C                                   G
And the blacktops cracked and partly washed away
     G                             F
Our neon sign points in the wrong direction
     C                               G
The Moonlight Motor Inn closed down today


CHORUS:
G                              F
So, if you're passing on your way
      C               G
From Palm Springs to A .

        C                D
Give a wave to good ol' Dave
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Say hello to progress
          C          D               G
And good bye to the Moonlight Motor Inn


OUTRO:
        C                D
Give a wave to good ol' Dave
 C             D
Say hello to progress
          C          D               F   C  G G
And good bye to the Moonlight Motor Inn