Chin Up, Cheer Up

	Chin Up, Cheer Up (f/k/a Bringing Me Down)
Author:	Ryan Adams
Official Appearance:	Demolition -- Ryan Adams
Unofficial Appearance:	48 Hours -- Ryan Adams
	Alternate Demolition -- Ryan Adams

Notes:	"I'm afraid I just wrote a song while Irene was playing . . . . I just wrote this a couple of minutes ago so we'll see if it's any good. I'm not sure what it's about yet. I think it's about covering elephants in tin foil for no good reason." After the song: "I think I'll keep it!" Ryan Adams, 11/15/00. "Irene" was actually Eileen Rose.


Notes 2:	Ryan Adams to Uncut Magazine: "It's bluegrass meets The Smiths. Kind of .The chord changes are Johnny Marr - and I'm still studying that guy. I'd been in England just before I wrote it, so it must be about someone unnamed from England who is a better songwriter than I am. You know who I mean."

Lyrics:	Took a walk with you
	In the shadow of my shoes
	Danced around the broken blues
	In the dirty summer rain
	Moonlight on the cars
	Parked in single file at the bars
	With a thick and rosy smoke
	Waving its busted hand

	Bringing you down, can't bring you down
	Bring you down, can't bring you down
	Bring you down, can't hear the sound
	Run through the river and head to town
	Pretty little moon with it's head hung down
	Chin up. Cheer up.
	Chin up. Cheer up.

	"Alright, that's you"

	I took a walk with you
	And I busted up my shoe
	In an old yellow canoe
	Out in Hollywood
	You called the police
	But they didn't care the lease
	On your place had run out
	Your landlord straightened his hat


	Bringing you down, can't bring you down
	Bringing you down, can't bring you down
	Bringing you down, can't hear the sound
	Run through the river and head to town
	Pretty little moon with it's head hung down
	Chin up. Cheer up.
	Chin up. Cheer up.