Thursday, January 29, 2009

Great Lake Swimmers - Bodies and Minds

Bm..A..G..D


Bm..............A........G.............D
O hold me O holy O golden O grace

Bm.....................................A
Down here in fear, down where none can hear

........G..................D
Any whisper, any word

Don’t wanna, you wanna
Don’t wanna, you wanna
Don’t wanna, you wanna
Don’t wanna, you wanna
Don’t wanna, you wanna
No sudden moves
Don’t wanna, you wanna
Don’t wanna, you wanna
Don’t wanna, you wanna
Don’t wanna, you wanna
Don’t wanna, you wanna
No sudden moves

Singing sorry to you, and sorry to you
Sleep won’t come till I’m sorry to you
For my body and my mind
Singing sorry to you, and sorry to you
Sleep won’t come till I’m sorry to you
From my body and my mind

Don’t wanna, you wanna
Don’t wanna, you wanna
Don’t wanna, you wanna
Don’t wanna, you wanna
Don’t wanna, you wanna
No sudden moves
Don’t wanna, you wanna
Don’t wanna, you wanna
Don’t wanna, you wanna
Don’t wanna, you wanna
Don’t wanna, you wanna
You wanna see it through

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Joe Pernice - Bum Leg

Capo II


e:-----------------------------------
B:----------------------------------
G:------------------0--------------
D:------------0h2----2--------2-
A:------0h2--------------0h2----
E:--0------------------------------


...............G
I got this scar above my eye

...............D
from the dirty little shit

........Am............................................Em
who tried to love me underneath the bridge

I broke a bottle on his ear
as the sun was pouring down
I never stopped to see if he was dead

about a half a mile a way
in a pile of broken things
he hid a green jewel bigger than my hand
when I find it I'll be gone
down to Florida so far
from my frigged rain that kept me here so long

hey could you walk a little slower
my legs don't work so good in this cold weather
tore myself open
if I only had a dime
and just one minute of your time
I'm a ghost I'll be fading with the light

................D
I got this lump growing in my neck

..............Em
that somebody ought to see

.........D..............................................Em
got a rattle in my chest the way it sounds

...............D
it's like a barrel full of empty bottles

Em
rolling through the night

............D..........................................Em
hitting every fucking pothole in this town

I got this scar above my eye
from the dirty little shit
who tried to love me underneath the bridge
I broke a bottle on his ear
as the sun was pouring down
I never stopped to see if he was dead

hey could you walk a little slower
my legs don't work so good in this cold weather
tore myself open
if I only had a dime
and just one minute of your time
I'm a ghost I'll be fading with the light
oh I'm a ghost I'll be fading with the light
oh I'm a ghost

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Backsliders - Lonesome Teardrops

A7

................D....................G
lonesome teardrops in a crowded room

A.............................G.......D
no one else feels the way I do

G...........................A....................D
I just can't seem to get you off my mind

lonely mornings, lonely afternoons
everyday I feel so blue
I know somewhere I've left you far behind

A...................................G.............D
come on and tell me the same old lies

G....................A.................D
tell me I'm the only one for you

A................................G.........D
oh girl just fake it don't apologize

........G........................A...........D
well you can smile and I'll just play your fool

I could tell you I'm just having fun
you could say I'm the only one
we could both just turn and walk away
but something happens when we're all alone
I just don't know which way to go
it's easier to play this losing game

come on and tell me the same old lies
tell me I'm the only one for you
oh girl just fake it don't apologize
well you can smile and I'll just play your fool

come on and tell me the same old lies
tell me I'm the only one for you
oh girl just fake it don't apologize
well you can smile and I'll just play your fool
yeah you can smile and I'll just play your fool

Monday, January 26, 2009

John Doe - A Little More Time

D
There was a time

............F#m
when the sunshine

G..................................Em
played in your soft blond hair

G................................A
reflected in your golden eyes

.......G.............................................Em
you leaned back your head and you laughed

..........A
about tomorrow

then it came like a new day
the sun in the sky beamed
water sparkled down the stream
we knew this could all go away
but not today

and when it did
you were better
better than the day you were born
not quite so perfectly formed
the only wish I had that day
that it would stay


.........................G
just a little more time

.......Em
with you

........Bm
with me

........A
with you

..........................G
just a little more time

........Em
with you

.......A
and me

down by the stream
in the mountains
I promised you faithfully
that I would never leave
if and when I went away
I'd still protect you

but now I'm gone
and the loose ends
are strings hanging from my hands
tied to an empty land
stuck on a steering wheel
in Nebraska

but I'm around
so baby call me
just before you go to bed
before you lay down your head
or if you need an old fashion cry
I'm your guy

just a little more time
with you
with me
with you
just a little more time
with you
with me
with you
just a little more time
with you
and me

there was a time...

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Phosphorescent - The Waves at Night

G..............D...........C..............G
Where are we and where do we

.......C................G...D
And where will we finally

Trade our teeth for rays for wheat
To lay and sleep underneath

...C.........................G
O love too eager to cross

...C..................................G.....D
O love we meet and you pause

...C.........................G
O love too eager to cross

................................D
You see what you’ve lost?

The crazy streets, amazing grief
The taste of sweet offerings
The blazing heat, the naked beasts
Great barrier reefs, all for thee

O love too eager to cross
O love we meet and you pause
O love too eager to cross
You see what you’ve lost?

The waves at night all brave and bright
The dance hall lights, o all your life
To lay and weep, to trade our teeth
To aim and achieve grace and peace

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Brent Best - Robert Cole

G.............Am
hey little man she said

C........................D
open your eyes lift your sleepy head

G..............Am...........................C...........D
you know tomorrow's your big day

here are your clothes she said
so I put them on and made the bed
and I went outside to play

when a sun so huge it shined
and it baked the blacktop underneath my toes
playing hopscotch on the lines

till she howled my name
and a shriek it came
with a swell of shame of sadness
I just froze
with a pain I simply can't define
yeah and she said

C...............D
I am your mother

..G.............................Am
I told your sister and baby brother

C.............D...........................G
your dog Jim and your best friend

C...........................D
that your name is Robert Cole

.......G...........................Am
and tomorrow you are nine years old

.......C.........................D....................G
but you, you will not walk this road again

now your son's heart is fair
so I took your words and I kept them there
but a young boy's mind is of a different gauge

my father's words returned to me
from some stormy evening with my mother on her knees
my life is mine he swore and raged

and he left her there upon the floor
I can hear him curse and slam the door
yeah and he found me squatting in the dirt

and he spoke to me of family
and sacrifices unforeseen
I'll the change the children worth the work
yeah and he said

please tell your mother
your oldest sister and baby brother
your dog Jim and your best friend
your name is Robert Cole
and tomorrow you are nine years old
but you, you will not walk this road again

I scanned the yard and house
secured no sign of mother's work-worn blouse
but for my heart the world was still

each foot a heavy load
the blacktop baked and burned under my toes
around the curve and below the hill

and this is the blacktop road
that I was not to walk till I was old
if Jeani saw me she would snitch

and these are the tire tracks
that will lead you down and round to where
there is a car off in the ditch

and I heard the fireman yell
this one is smashed and torn to hell
and he could not recognize the face

and I am my mother's son
but now it seems that I've gone off and become
the one to take my daddy's place

please tell your mother
my oldest sister and baby brother
my dog Jim and my best friend
my name is Robert Cole
and tomorrow I am nine years old
but I, I will not walk this road again

please tell your mother
my oldest sister and baby brother
my dog Jim and my best friend
my name is Robert Cole
and tomorrow I am nine years old
but I, I will not walk this road again

Friday, January 16, 2009

William Elliott Whitmore - One Man's Shame (Banjo Tab)

Cm Rift:
d:--------5----4--5--4--5----
B:--------4----4--4--4--4----
G:--5----5----5--5--5--5----5
D:-------5----5--5--5--5----
g:-------0----0--0--0--0----


Cm...F...Cm


Cm...G(w/ rift)...Cm


G rift:
d:--1-0

Cm
Don't alter my altar

Cm
don't desecrate my shrine

...........................F
My church is the water

..................................................Cm
and my home is underneath the shady pines

Cm
Don't underestimate the spine in a poor man's back

................................G...............................Cm
when it's against the wall and his future's black

One man's story is another man's shame
I ain't bound for glory, I'm bound for flames
Take to the woods boy, and cover up your tracks
Go away child and don't look back

Sad is the lullaby from a mother's heart and soul
when she knows her child has strayed from the foal
The parish will perish
by death's cruel hand
and finish the job that fate began
All that static in the attic,
that's just an old drunk ghost
His chains are rattlin' but his end is close
Ain't no hell below and ain't no heaven above
I came for the drinks but I stayed for the love

Thursday, January 15, 2009

The Steeldrivers - Blue Side of the Mountain

E


E
Theres a place in a piney hollow

E
that no one but me can find

........A.............G...................E
some choctaw built it in the hillside

...............D....B.....................E
stone by stone in a simpler time

Its a holy place my daddy showed me
back before this land of mine
on the blue side of the mountain
where the sun don't ever shine

So deep and dark like a hurtin' down in my heart
maybe someday they'll show me some kind of sign
on the blue side of the mountain
where the sun don't ever shine

Im goin' back to a world of shadow
gotta find some peace 'for I lose my mind
on the blue side of the mountain
where the sun don't ever shine

So deep and dark like a hurtin' down in my heart
maybe someday they'll show me some kind of sign
on the blue side of the mountain
where the sun don't ever shine

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

John Doe - Lean Out Yr Window

E...A...E...A


E.............................A
the window you lean out of

E..........................A
as I walk down the stairs

E......................A
frames of fragile beauty

E...............A
beyond compare

the slender hand is waiting
the crooked wisp for smile
I guess I won't see you
for ten thousand miles

C#m....................A
will you come and find me

F#m.......................B
I don't wanna fly to you

C#m...........A
wait for me baby

B
I'm coming back

B
coming back to you

E...............A
lean out yr window

E...............A
lean out yr window

E...............A
lean out yr window

B
I'm coming back to you


lace our hands together
trace your every scar
beg for your forgiveness
saving me tomorrow

will you come and find me
I don't wanna fly to you
wait for me baby
I'm coming back
coming back to you
lean out yr window
lean out yr window
lean out yr window
I'm coming back to you

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Gary Louris - True Blue

D...Am...D...Am

D
rusty wire

Am
bent to make a fence

D....................Am..........C/B
rows and rows of houses

C...........G.............D
cold and still until tomorrow
restless waters
colored by their stones
some ungrateful morning
kick the sand
stir up the powder


Bb.........F
strip me down

C....G................D
to what you can believe in

Bb........F...C..........G
place it on what is right and

D.....Am
true blue

today's the day
my branches bear their fruit
all my labor will be rewarded
then I awake
it's like starting over

riches and their thorns
crumble where they lay
revealing sparking secrets
to hold you would bring happiness
your absence sorrow

strip it down
to what you can rescue
place it on what is right and
true blue

shifting stages and shapes
giving up ground now
take another's place
holding one's own
as if you were just born

find a way
feel without a trace
feel fulfillment in this small corner
and no possessions to create sorrow

strip me down
to what you can believe in
place it on what is right and
true blue
true blue
true blue
true blue

Monday, January 12, 2009

Scud Mountain Boys - Big Hole

E...........F#m............................E..................F#m
Drag me out from my bits and concentrate

E..................F#m......................................E...................F#m
A song about Johnny and have to sit down amphetamines

......................E...................Bm..............Am
Can anybody see all of the time that I cut you down

.............C....................B
Will the right people listen?

G#m............A
It builds me up to kill things

F#m.....................B
that I love and to chop them down


It feels like a year since I even felt a thing
It's good money after bought just to feed the thing

Can anybody see all of the time that I put you down
Will the right people listen?
It builds me up to let things
that I need and drop them down into a

E.............F#m
Deep hole

.................E.............F#m
Down in a deep hole

.......................E..........F#m
I'm down in a big hole

.................E.............F#m
Down in a deep hole


C#m..............F#m
But isn't there someone you can call

C#m........F#m
Isn't there anyone but me

C#m...........F#m
cause I got a needle cutting

G...........................B
find out they don't split you


It feels like a year since I even felt a thing
It's good money after I buy it
just to feed the thing

Can anybody see all of the time that I cut you down
Will the right people listen?
It builds me up to kill things
that I love or drop them down in big hole
Down in a deep hole
Down in a deep hole
I'm down in a deep hole

Sunday, January 11, 2009

Justin Townes Earle - Yuma

Capo V

C
Well he woke up that morning
and he called into work
Put on his daddy's old suit
with a second hand shirt

.....F
all untucked, shoes untied

C
The people all snickered as he walked by.

.........F
So he stopped in a bar,

...............................................C
bought a shot of Stevens and another.

......F
He bummed a cigarette

..............................................................C
and set talking to a stranger about the weather.

....................Am
And then he paid his bill and

....G..........................C
he stepped outside, fell down into the street.

F
He cursed, and he cried

C.......G.............................F...................G
as he climbed back up his feet again.


So up the road he found a payphone and called his mom.
He said, momma I think I'll be coming back home.
I been feeling so bad, and
tired of this city. Ain't been the same since I lost my pretty Angeline.
Momma I miss her so.
It's been over a year and there ain't nothing I fear so much as being alone.
And then he hung up the phone without saying good bye.
Stopped in a store and bought a postcard and signed it, Fair thee well, and sent it back home to Yuma.


C..C/B..Am


Am
Lookin back I'd say,

F..............................C
it wasn't so much the girl.

F...................C
As it was the booze and the dope

.............G
and the way he took the weight of the world

.............................Am
up upon his shoulders.

......................F
And when he washed the blue from his eyes,

..................C
as he grew colder.

....................F.......................G....................C
As through all those lonely nights there left alone.


C..C/B..Am..G


So he was just 23 when he stepped out on that ledge.
It was his weary heart that pushed him to the edge.
He was tired of living life, looking for love.
A weary heart just needs a little touch.
And is it too much to ask, he cried as he stepped into the wind.
He turned his back onto the world and he fell back to earth again.
So with the wind in his hair, and smile on his face,
he crashed through the hood of an Old's 98,
and he lay there dying on a cold winters day
all alone, all alone.

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Lucero - The Prayer

Bb...Eb...Bb
Bb...F...Bb


..........Bb..........Eb.......................Bb
Lord I pray for strength in this moment of darkness

...............................F....................Eb
when I'm forced to fight a fellow man

..............Bb.........F....................Eb
may my wits be keen and my aim be true Lord

..Bb..........F............Bb
to feel the pistol in hand

Lord I may not be alive tomorrow
no second chance to serve thy will
but before I should fall to my killer's fast pistol
that he'll go to if I'm killed

righteousness and truth are both my allies
with you by my side I'm at ease
for if death or life waits tomorrow
I know I'll have honor and peace

so guide my shot to its mark Lord
may your might and wrath be felt
may your strength flow freely through my hands Lord
may your swift justice be dealt

Lord I may not be alive tomorrow
no second chance to serve thy will
but before I should fall to my killer's fast pistol
that he'll go to if I'm killed

Friday, January 9, 2009

Roy Davis and the Dregs - Lie Like the Snow Falls

Capo I

Bm..................................D
well she couldn't sleep so she said to him

........A........................G
"the spirit keeps me up"

...........Bm.............................D
and he gave her a stare that cut through the air

......A.............G
like fire on a rug

Bm...............................D
each time she inhales a frail figurine

.......A....................G
he's lost beyond repair

.......Bm.......................D
well love turns to lust turns to love turns to dust

.............A...............G
turns to all he can bare

............A
he can bare


..................................G
don't cry when your glass is full

........................D
just lie like the snow falls

..................G
hell is the little things

..............D.........A
love will dance again

don't cry when your glass is full
just lie like the snow falls
hell is the little things
love will dance again

she got a job cleaning pots at a bar
where she screws the chef
and he got a watch with a hand that keeps track
of the minutes since she left
and all's well that ends well they smiled when they both fell
on ice on Christmas Eve
and the river was wider the moon it was brighter
but love will dance again
again

don't cry when your glass is full
just lie like the snow falls
hell is the little things
love will dance again

don't cry when your glass is full
just lie like the snow falls
hell is the little things
love will dance again

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Adam Hood - 22 Days Too Long

D
Birmingham to Jackson

D
Vicksburg to Ruston

G......................................................D
Girl, you know I miss you when I'm gone

D
The sunshine on your bare feet

D
Your toenails painted hot pink

G
And running through the sprinkler

G......................D
In mama's front lawn


........................G
You know, the radio's playing

.......................................D
The song you're always singing

.............A
And the dawn is breaking

......................................D
The old yellow moon is sinking

...............G
I run the truck up in the yard

...............................D
And leave the keys swinging

..............A
Because 21 days has got me thinking

............................................D
That 21 days is 22 days too long

Fayetteville to Little Rock
Shreveport to Beaumont
Girl, you know that I miss you when I'm gone
Labor Day was a fine mess
You got cake on your sundress
We just laughed it off when you kept it on

You know, the radio's playing
The song you're always singing
And the dawn is breaking
The old yellow moon is sinking
I run the truck up in the yard
And leave the keys swinging
Because 21 days has got me thinking
That 21 days is 22 days too long

You know, the radio's playing
The song you're always singing
And the dawn is breaking
The old yellow moon is sinking
I run the truck up in the yard
And leave the keys swinging
Because 21 days has got me thinking
That 21 days is 22 days too long
Yes, its 22 days too long

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Justin Townes Earle - Lone Pine Hill

Capo III

Intro:
e: -0----0----0----0
B:-1-----1----1----1
G:-2----0----0----2
D:-2----2----2----2
A:-0--0h3---0----0
E:-x----x---0h3--x

Verse:
e: -0----0----0----0----0----0----0
B:-1-----1----1-----1----1-----1----1
G:-2----0----0----2----2----0----2
D:-2----2----0----2----2----2----2
A:-0----3----3----0----0----0----0
E:-x----x----x----x----x-----3----x

Chorus:
Am.......Dm...Em...........Am
take me home lone pine hill


I swear I see her in my dreams sometimes
Held up in the middle of the night
Shakin like a pistol in a young mans hand
There in the pale moonlight

Standin up the top of that lonely hill
Spared by the company mines
Is my blue eyed baby with her best dress on
In the shadow of a lonely pine

I'll be back before the war
When the company came
They still grew wild and free
Me and baby we'd hide in the hollars low
Away from the cruel suns heat
But then they knocked down the timber
And burned off the brush
To get to the riches below
And when they pulled out
They left a cold black ground
And one pine standing lone

So take me home...
Lone pine hill

I signed up back in '61
I'm an army of a genuine man
I've been from Mannasas to Mackonackey
All the way to Sailors Creek fighting
For my home land

After 4 years gone and all hope lost
And rich mens under seige
They were diggin out fire holes
And waitin in the rain
To shed and they bring us to their knees

So take me home...
Lone pine hill

There's a strange moon hangin' overhead tonight
And if the rain keeps comin then the creek's gunna rise
With the good lords grace
I'll make it outta this place
I'll be in her arms come the morning light I swear...

So god grant me speed and grant me forgiveness
And carry me on through the night
Take me through the hills and over your rivers
Away from this awful fight

Cause I ain't never known a man that's never owned another
Ain't never owned nothin of my own
And after 4 long years I just can't tell you
What the hell I've been fighting for...

So take me home...
Lone pine hill
Take me home...
Lone pine hill

Justin Townes Earle - Lonesome and You

Capo IV

G
if you don't want me like I want you

.......C
well come on honey why don't you

G................................................................D
give me some kind of clue as what I should do

well you keep acting like you love me
but all I want is for you to show me
how much you really care if you even do

C............................................G
so I don't know what I should do

.....................................D
seems like either way I lose

.........................G
between lonesome and you

now every time I, I try and kiss you
you turn your cheek and oh how I miss you
why do you have to be so cruel

I used to think that you were so
sweet and loving but now I know
just what me thinking can do

so I don't know what I should do
seems like either way I lose
between lonesome and you

C..............................G
between lonesome and you

.......D......................G
ain't where I want to be

.........C..........................G
but it seems I love you more

......A...................D
the less you love me

so I don't know what I should do
seems like either way I lose
between lonesome and you

so I don't know what I should do
seems like either way I lose
between lonesome and you

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Phosphorescent - Cocaine Lights

Capo I

C
In the darkness

.................Dm
After the cocaine lights

........G
I will miss you

.........C
More than ever

And to color my eyes into rose
Is to ask of my beaten bones
To be less of meat and stone
And more of feather

........................F
But lord they’re rolling me away

...............C
Ain’t they rolling me away

................G...............C
Don’t they roll oh oh oh


In the morning in the kitchen
I can hear my own blood clicking
So I stand there and I listen
Til the glowing begins

There is light that pours sweet from new hips
There is beer that pours sweet through my lips
There is gold where the cold button sits
It’s just a showy amen

And in the hallway, in a slip
She says ‘hey, don’t you like my newest trick’
And I say “yeah that’s a pretty good trick
Would you show me again’

And lord I truly am awake
And lord, truly I am afraid
And, lord, truly I remain…

In the darkness
After the cocaine lights
I will miss you
With no warning

I will recover my sense of grace
And rediscover my rightful place
Yes and cover my face
With the morning

William Elliott Whitmore - Sometimes Our Dreams Float Like Anchors

N.C.................................G
And the hammer swings high and comes down hard

.......................D...........................G
Drive another nail into my coffin lid

...............................................................C
And as the days go by if I can play my part

....................G.........D......................G
Well I'll feel no remorse for what I did

Your mother would cry if she only could
But those days are gone, those days are gone
And she always tried to see the good in everything that you done

................................C..................................G
And sometimes our dreams they float like anchors

..................D...............................G
in hopeless waters oh way down here

......................C.............................G...G/F#..Em
Sometimes it seems that all that matters most

......G.........D..............................G
are all the things that you can't keep

Oh, the skin, Oh, the skin
That this old world has placed me in
I can't wait to shed, I can't wait to shed
Lord I'll be free when I'm dead

Monday, January 5, 2009

Vigilantes of Love - Weak One Now

G...C...D

G.................C................Em...............G
It's not your promises that I don't respect

......................Em........................G
They're cold comfort when I'm wrecked

................D.....................C
Reaching blindly out for you

G..................C.....................Em.....................G
I've heard it said at least a thousand times before

..................Em.....................G...................D..........C
"Just keep knocking at the door of opportunity"

C..........................D
I'm the weak one now

...................Am.....................C
And I don't need your sacred cow

....................................D
It's hard to drink the dreams

.............Am..................C
Mingled ashes and the might-have-been

C
Kill the spirit

.................D
Assail the flesh

.....Am...........................C
We amuse ourselves to death

..................................D...........................Am
Holy words on bated breath lose their meaning

.........C.....................G
20th century, shut up

Gold has lost its luster
The silver becomes dull
Once I used to run with joy
Now I can barely crawl
I'd like to help you, brother
I've washed my hands and dried
The steely blade of science never hypnotized me once

Sunday, January 4, 2009

Richmond Fontaine - Settle

Capo II (Safety)
Capo I (Obliteration By Time)

rift
e: --3-3-3-3-3-3
B:--0-0-0-0-0-0
G:--0-0-0-0-0-0
D:--4-0-2-2-0-2
A:--x-x-x-x-x-x
E:--3-3-3-3-3-3

A...Em...C


G................Em
deliverance from

D......................C
obliteration by time

G..............Em
I couldn't gauge

D...........C
any day now
been lost under neon
can't seem to find my way out
but that everything that sinks
finally settles on some sort of ground

G......................C...G
town and country

C.................G
town and country

...G/F#...................Em
is where you'll find me lately

.........................................G
I've been for some time

only sound made
is out of regression
I try to block it out
but it comes from within now
I pass the college grounds
and their well lit halls
that bridge is too far
fuck filling out student loans

all the streets are dark
and their empty now
the burning hands of the daylight sun
haven't touched me in so long
been lost under neon
don't even want to find my way out
because everything that sinks
finally finds its way down

town and country
town and country
it doesn't matter to me
cause I always stay inside


chords used:

.....G....A....Em...C
e: --3---3---3---3
B:--3---3---3---3
G:--0---2---0---0
D:--0---2---2---2
A:--2---0---2---3
E:--3---x---0---x

Saturday, January 3, 2009

Drag the River - Confession

Capo IV

G......................................D
Don't have to drink to confess

G.......................D.................C
It just makes it easier, I guess

G......................................D
I've been so lonely since you got to know me

Em.........C................G
I'll never get over it now

Lying here all the while
Well I'm lying here when I smile
You been kept waiting, you I've been hating
Losing you all of the while

C.............................................G
All of my friends have gone south

G.............................D
I'm getting over it now

C...........................................G
Talking with them doesn't count

..........Em.................C....................G
Well, there's better ways to fall down

I won't have to drink to get by
Well, maybe I'll make good in time
When you knew and kept waiting
I been hating this losing you all of the while

D...C...G

....Em..................G
Deciding how to act

...........................................D...........................C
Hey I'm burning all these things from my past
Deciding how to act
Hey I'm burning all these things from my past

Thursday, January 1, 2009

The National Lights - Midwest Town

Capo I

C
I'm sick on loving you

..................................F
It's a hurtful kind of loving

...............................Dm
The devil's in your eyes

.........................................G
Is that what makes you smile?

And I'm falling for your trick
I really can't get enough of it
But I'm too drunk to dance
So, I take you down

F
Look at what we've become

....C..........................C/B........Am
A black heart and a loaded gun

.........F.........................................................G..................C
But I guess that's part of growing up in a midwest town