Drag the River - Barroom Bliss

C.......................F..........................C

My mind doesn't work so well these days

C...................F..................C

I drink all my waking hours away

G

If I sit here long enough

G

maybe I think of something

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that'll make you stay

something tells me not think at all
I sit in the darkness starin at the wall
This lonliness is hell
I search for drinks and things
to make me well

F...............Am
I spend my life staring

G............................C

through my bloodshot eyes

F............Am...............G

I'll never know where I belong

With eyes closed fast
I play photographs of you
You stare at me and wonder
how I'm doing
I tell you that I'm fine
That thought echoes through my empty mind

I close my eyes again

With barroom bliss and a strangers kiss
I'm home
Cause noone ever wants to be alone
I doubt that there is a way
I'll ever speak the words
that'll make you stay

my mind doesnt work so well these days

Drag the River - Song For Robin Reichhardt

G...D...Am...C..D

G....................................D

I know I said we'd never part

Am..................C.............D

I remember that time of year

G...................................D

Maybe I won't sound the same

Am

But I'll be fine if no one

C..................D

mentions her name


G.............................D
I need a song just like before

G......................................C

That one just don't cut it anymore

G....................................D

I'm impressed now its the end

...........................................Am

I'll let all the sad songs roll back in

Am

I'll be be fine if no one

C.................D............C

mentions her name anymore

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Except for lying

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alone with the earth

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all alone for a while

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I'll feel like drivin' just away in the morning

.........................Em

All but I've been seeing myself

............C..........D

The first time I might

So maybe I won't sound the same

Tell me I don't feel the same

But I'll be fine if no one
mentions her name

Think of how it was that night
and how you feel tonight
I'll be fine if no one

mentions her name anymore

Need a song just like before

The one don't cut it anymore

I'm impressed now it's the end

all those sad sounds roll back

I'll be fine if no one

mentions her name

Anymore

I'll survive it

Em...D...G

Drag the River - Medicine

G

A bottle a day

Bm

keeps the doctors away

D.........................Em

or so my girlfriend says

G

So I take my medicine

Bm

and she gives me something

D...........................C

that word's just can't express


.......G
She's cranky when she's sober

D

so sweet when she's wasted

...........C

When I quench my thirst with her waters

..........D................................C

it's the sweetest I have ever tasted


C...G...C...G


As I lay down to sleep
she lays a bottle at my feet
knowing when I wake up
I'll be shaking
the sun comes through the window
she opens up the bottle
she feeds me my medicine again

She's cranky when she's sober

so sweet when she's wasted
When I quench my thirst with her waters

it's the sweetest I have ever tasted

C...............G

I can't stay clean long

.......................C................G

I hope she is not angry anymore

Em.................D.....................C

she brings me happiness in a bottle

................Am...........Em

makes life easier to swallow

..................G...........Am

makes love easier to hold

...............C...........D

so I've been told


Em...G...Am...A

She's cranky when she's sober

so sweet when she's wasted

When I quench my thirst with her waters

it's the sweetest I have ever tasted

can't stay clean long
hope she's not angry anymore

American Aquarium - Rattlesnake

Capo III

G...C...G

G...D...G

G

she was born outside of Memphis

.....C...............G

just north of Tupelo

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oh Lord she's a Mississippi queen

G

and just like that big river

.......C........................G

oh Lord she'll pull you under

..............................D.........G

she fights fire with gasoline

well first time that I saw her

down at the Whitewater

dancing across those ancient hardwood floors

and you could tell she had a history

with the cigarettes and whiskey

and the boys that had a way with words

........C......D....G

but I want to make

.......C.......D.....G

that glorious mistake

G...........................................C...........G

now she's got the kisses of a thousand angels

.........................D........G

and the bite of a rattlesnake

just like my first occurrence

with straight Kentucky bourbon

oh Lord she took my breath away

and when she called me darling

I started caterwhomping

oh I had nothing else to say

but I want to make

that glorious mistake

now she's got the kisses of a thousand angels

and the bite of a rattlesnake

and when she gets me all alone

she strikes the fear of Jesus

she sends that fear coursing through my blood

and when we hit the bedroom

it's always fire and brimstone

yes I have been washed in the flood

but I want to make

that glorious mistake

now she's got the kisses of a thousand angels

and the bite of a rattlesnake

now she's got the kisses of a thousand angels

and the bite of a rattlesnake

Israel Nash Gripka - Fool's Gold

G...D...A...G... 2x

D...........................A

give me lovin' like a cannonball

G.............................D................A

I can't stand but baby we got walls

D...........................A

the air is thin so lets take it down

G.....................................D.............A

to meet the street and the evening crowd

D.............................A

turn the corner and I heard her sing

G

shake me down and take me off with a ring

A.................................Em

building bridges ain't the hardest part

A......................................Em...........A

it's trying to swim when they fall apart

........................G.......D

and all I got was fools gold

D..............A..........................G..........D

they never get you what you needed most

D.................A...................G...............D

you know the silver always brings you home

D..................A

like friends and lovers well they

Em.........G........A.......D

come and go like fools gold

wish I knew how the story went

I guess I would if I remembered it

but it's just like it always is

with a broken head and a busted glass

throwing caution right into the wind

it takes me down and it always wins

building bridges ain't the hardest part

it's trying to swim when they fall apart

and all I got was fools gold

they never get you what you needed most

you know the silver always brings you home

like friends and lovers well they

come and go like fools gold

Em.............G.............A

out hear the mouth is a token

Em.....................G.......A

the fallout it comes easily

Em..........G........A

I know to ruin the moment

......Em...........G.............A

it's a valley just waitin' for me

and all I got was fools gold

they never get you what you needed most

you know the silver always brings you home

like friends and lovers well they

come and go like fools gold

Ryan Adams - Ashes and Fire

Capo III

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G.....C...................G

as he stared past the fire

G................................C....................................G

his hunger to leave well it gnawed his poor heart alive

C...........................G

her skin smelled like black cherry

C..........G

blossom perfume

C.................G........................D

the sailboats they all sailed on by

........C.............G

and a river she cried

and the wind was suddenly sweeter than roosevelt pine

the windows broke out and the cigarette smoke was drifting by

the bums on the bowery they were swallowed in the lights

as cars rumbled out in the night

screaming run for your life

......Em.......C............G

with cool and silvery eyes

........Em............C..........G

and a heart it was fit for design

Em.............C..........G

drown in the river of tears oh

..C...........G

a river she cried

C..................D

left her with a heart

............C.............G

made of ashes and fire

one day there was a silence and it washed through the town

and there no reason and no one made a sound

her eyes were indigo

the cats were all calico

and the sailboats they all sailed on by

and a river she cried

with cool and silvery eyes

and a heart it was fit for design

drown in the river of tears oh

a river she cried

left her with a heart

made of ashes and fire

Kurt Vile - Jesus Fever

Capo III

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.....D........................A

I'd pack my suitcase with myself

............C..........G

But I'm already gone

D..............................A

Cleanse myself with vitamin health

............C..........G

But I'm already gone

C..................................F
I saw it risin' through the horizon

C................G

And I saw it fall

...Am......C.................F

A Jesus fever's flowin' all over

C.................G

Believers and lovers

Em...C...G...

In a black hole I found a broken skull
Now I'm already gone
You can write my whole life down in a little book
When I'm already gone

I started shaking and my heart breaking
And my belly crawled
A Jesus Fever's flowin' all over
Believers and lovers

When I am a ghost, I'll see no reason to run
When I'm already gone
If it wasn't taped, you could escape this song
But I'm already gone

William Elliott Whitmore - Lee County Flood

D

The summer wind is blowing westward

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over the field of fresh moved hay

A

Let's go up to the barn loft

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lay back and watch the sparrows play

I can see the evening sky
from the holes rusted in the tin
Let's close our eyes and fall asleep
and listen to the storm roll in

..G.............................................D
It sounded like a thousand horses' hooves

...........................................................A

The sound of the pourin' rain on the old tin roof

......G

The clouds were as black as the smoke form the stack

.................................D

of an old coal-burning train

D.....................................A............................D

Lay back and listen to the sound of the pourin' rain

It ain't rained in weeks and now it just won't stop
All the rivers and the creeks
are getting fuller with every drop
If the levee holds it's ground
and keeps that water back
the Mississippi won't reach my little tar-paper shack

Well now the sun shines on the roof
and the moonshine is in the cellar
and what a happy feller I am
to finally see the sun
now that the rain is done
'cause I've had about all I can stand
I can't tell where my pond begins
an where my cornfield ends
The cattle done floated away
'cause the water's up over the fence

FACEBOOK!!!!

We on it now

Joe Pernice - The Pill

G

mirrored glasses

Am

iconoclastic

Bm................C

worse shit than dreams

G

like a finger

Am

this must singer

......Bm....C

in a hip magazine

......................................C...C/B...Em

sometimes you make me feel so bad

...................C.....C/b.....Em....G

sugar feed me trapdoors what fors

A

among the most abused

......C

I've probably even used them

dirty phone calls and

baby doll faces

tounge in my ear

I'm walking

in between the

rain that falls

sometimes you make me feel so bad

sugar feed me trapdoors what fors

among the most abused

I've used them

...............G....D...Am

do what I will

................G...D...Am

I'm on the pill

...............G...D...Am

do what I will

................G...D...Am

I'm on the pill

Em...Am...............C..C/B..Am

if you need me I will be

....G

you never know

D

until it's done

.........Am

you're not about to

C

be the one

.....G.........Am

they want

.....G

you figure out

.........D

when it's too late

...Am

to undermine

.....C

the kind of fate

......G........Am

you made

Em...Am...............C..C/B..Am

if you need me I will be

do what I will

I'm on the pill

do what I will

I'm on the pill

I'm on the pill

I'm on the pill

I'm on the pill

I'm on the pill

I'm on the pill

Jason Isbell - Codine

G...D...Em...C...

G.........D.........................Em...........C

if there's one thing I can't stand

it's this bar and this cover band

trying to fake their way through "castles made of sand"

well that's one thing I can't stand

if there's one thing I can't take

it's the sound that a woman makes

about 5 seconds after her heart begins to breaks

that's one thing I can't take

Bm............................................C

she should be home by now but she ain't

and I should've gone by now but I can't

cause one of my friends has taken her in and given her codine

one of my friends has taken her in and given her codine

them eyes as big as stars

when I saw you behind the bar

I guess that's the way to keep on smiling where you are

girl those eyes are as big as stars

it sounds funny when you say my name

it's like you're chewing on a foreign thing

you won't get to sleep till dawn if it don't rain

it sounds so funny when you say my name

you oughta come home tonight but you won't

I wish we knew how to fight but we don't

one of your friends has taken you in and given you codine

one of your friends has taken you in and given you codine

Bm.......................C

darlin I'm not one to judge

..........G.........................................D

but if I was then I'd say you don't look so good

got no answers of my own

but with you gone this place looks bigger than it should

if theres two things that I hate

it's having to cook and trying to date

bustin' ass all day to play hurry-up and wait

that's a few things that I hate

if I call and I ain't drunk

this old boat will still be sunk

cause one of my friends has taken her in and given her codine

one of my friends has taken her in and given her codine

one of my friends has taken her in and given her codine

one of my friends has taken her in and given her codine

one of my friends has taken her in and given her codine

one of my friends has taken her in and given her codine

Elephant Micah - Still Life Blue

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D..........G....................C

well they say that your paintings

D........G.................C

are the work of an untrained mind

D...G........C

unlike any image

D.......G...............C

in the eyes of the unconfined

so I stare at your still life

as if it were wild

I look for your blues

in the natural light

well I see your collective

and you put up on display

with the people all around you

and the people who those other people pay

to stare at your still life

as if it were wild

to look for your blues

in the natural light

we stare at your still life

as if it were wild

we look for your blues

in the natural light

Glossary - Save Your Money For the Weekend

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A...............................F#m

What's there to go back to

..............D............................A

If you had nothing to start out with

A....................................F#m

All my daddy left me was a name

............................D.......A

And a mouth full of bad teeth

But Odelia honey I'll be fine
If you meet me out on Friday night
I know Christian girls know what's wrong
But that doesn't mean they always have to do what's right

.....................................Bm
Save your money for the weekend

.............D...........................Bm.......D

And we'll dance through the fire

..........Bm.................D.................................F#m

You get one chance to make it through this life alive

....Bm.................D

We ain't got far to fall

................Bm...........................D

So lift your glass and we'll bet it all

....................Bm.........................D

Honey there's got to be some hell somewhere

..................E

waiting to be raised

Your family wants to condemn me
For the sins they commit themselves
But let them whisper dirty little secrets
Under those church house bells

And Odelia honey let it be known
I'd never tell you a lie
So if what I want to do is a sin
God better cover his eyes

Save your money for the weekend
And we'll dance through the fire
You get one chance to make it through this life alive
We ain't got far to fall
So lift your glass and we'll bet it all
Honey there's got to be some hell somewhere
waiting to be raised

So scrape together all of your pennies
Put on your favorite dress
And meet me down in the old part of town
For some excess

And Odelia honey I can't say
What's waiting for us up above
All I know is Southern girls are sweeter
'Cause they're full of Jesus' love

Save your money for the weekend
And we'll dance through the fire
You get one chance to make it through this life alive
We ain't got far to fall
So lift your glass and we'll bet it all
Honey there's got to be some hell somewhere
waiting to be raised

Glossary - Lonely Is a Town

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E.....................G#m...A

Lonely is a town

.......E...................G#m...A

On a night like this

...............E..........................G#m....A

Where the city moans like a neon sign

.....G#m.............................A

Just flickering to try and stay lit

And the moon looks like a hole
Cut out of the sky
And shining through is a beacon of light
Somewhere from the other side

......E.............G#m
The ghosts are out

........F#m......................A

Their dancing among the living

.........E.................................G#m

If you listen you can hear them howl

.......F#m...........A

And I feel like an orphan

..............F#m

Wanting to know

............A

Where is home

I've been drug through the churches
Felt trapped like a dog on a chain
You can run as far as you want to
But something's pulling you back again

Because lonely is a town
When your floating through space on a stone
And nobody knows where we're headed
Maybe back to where we belong

The ghosts are out
Their dancing among the living

If you listen you can hear them howl

And I feel like an orphan

Wanting to know

Where is home

B.........................G#m
The wind only blows

B.................................G#m

'Cause it's got nowhere to go

.............F#m......A

To call its own

You don't need a soothsayer
To tell you how this life's going to go
It starts just like you remember it
And how it ends nobody's going to know

But your momma, she'll always be your momma
No matter what kind of trouble you get in
And your daddy may have never told you that he loves you
But it doesn't mean he never did.

The ghosts are out
Their dancing among the living

If you listen you can hear them howl

And I feel like an orphan

Wanting to know

Where is home

I wanna know

Where is home

Elephant Micah - Free As the Freest

Dm........C...F

Dm........C...F

Dm

well I never thought

Dm.........................C...........F

that a bird could have been so perfect

Dm

no I never thought

Dm.........................C............F

that a bird could have been so perfect

...Bb

in death

..........Am

like the cuckoo

......Gm

who lay

........F

in the dew

.........Bb

was as free

.........Am

as the freest

.........Gm

of the ones

............F

who still flew

C.........Bb........Dm.......C

who still flew

and when every song bird

is singing his song for the sake of pleasure

and every song bird

is singing his song for the sake of pleasure

wasted breath

of the cuckoo

who lay

in the dew

was as free

as the freest

of the ones

who still flew

who still flew

who still flew