The Perfect Stranger

D C G D C G D D Am G D I was lying in a motel room in Shreveport, Louisiana C A With a pint of Smirnoff Vodka by my bed D Am G D Thinking that I needed someone there to share it with me C D So I practiced some old lines that I had said Am G D I walked up to the lounge and sat down by this pretty lady C A She smiled at me and I said “Howdy, M’am” D Am G D And she said that in the shadows I looked just like Paul McCartney C D With a Southern drawl I said that’s who I am Bm A We laughed and talked awhile then she said she had to leave G A D But I sold her on another drink or two Bm A She said she never spent her evenings with a perfect stranger G A D I said “I ain’t perfect, but I’ll have to do” Modulate to E E Bm A E That organ player must have spent his daytimes working funerals D B ‘Cause every song he played was kind of dead. E Bm A E So I asked her if she’d come to three fourteen for one last nightcap D E Remembering the bottle by my bed. Bm A E When we got to the room I thought I’d died and gone to heaven D B “Cause she was just too pretty to be true E Bm A E I went and closed the curtains and turned on the television D E Oh, what a lovely night it turned into. C#m B She said she was a lady and I said I know you are A B E But it’s lonely when you’re far away from home C#m B She was just a perfect stranger, Lord, I’d have to say she was A B E The most perfect stranger that I’ve ever known N.C. Now sometimes when I hold the little girl that calls me Daddy N.C. I think back to that Louisiana night E Bm A E The night that perfect stranger became the perfect lady D E And the perfect lady’s now the perfect wife C#m B She said she was a lady and I said I know you are A B E But it’s lonely when you’re far away from home C#m B She was just a perfect stranger, Lord, I’d have to say she was A B E The most perfect stranger that I’ve ever known