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(*) Single Strum
(INTRO)
G
Em
G*
D*
C*
(VER)
With a
G
midnight sky and your
Em
big brown eyes
Did you s
C
tumble on a pearl?
G
Wa
D
ke me from a thousand-meter s
C
tare
With a
G
halo hanging just a
Em
little too heavy
And a
C
nother evening’s curls
G
D
Mixed up with the morning in your
C
hair
Like a
G
country girl who
Em
came
across
A
C
cat out in the rain
G
Like a
D
country
girl
You played it true to
C
form
Gonna lay a
G
little pity on a
Em
prodigal
son
Who
C
parted with his name
G
A little
D
shelter for a stray out in a s
C
torm
(CHO)
You can
G
try to put the pa
Bm
st
behind
It’s
C
on your clothes
Like
G
burning
pine
Am
Is it gin or tur
C
pentine
You keep
G
in your cant
D
een?
If p
G
ressure makes a
Em
diamond,
babe
I still
G
might
D
come out
C
clean
(VER)
In the si
G
mple
soli
Em
tary
joy
Of tem
C
porary
com
G
fort
Well, I c
D
losed my eyes
And felt I’d slept a
C
hundred thousand years
A
G
waking I would
Em
disregard
The te
C
rms of my surr
G
ender
Took
D
every bad fork in the road
And
C
look who’s standing here
We were vic
G
tims of eter
Em
nal
love
For a
C
lmost half a mo
G
rning
Said I
D
know you can’t go home again
But
C
tell me where you land
Oh,
G
here’s to yet ano
Em
ther
chance
You g
C
et to be reb
G
orn
D
And here’s to greener, higher hills
To
C
make your final stand
(CHO)
You can
G
try to put the pa
Bm
st
behind
It’s
C
on your clothes
Like
G
burning
pine
Am
Is it gin or tur
C
pentine
You keep
G
in your cant
D
een?
If p
G
ressure makes a
Em
diamond,
babe
I still
G
might
D
come out
C
clean
(INSTRUMENT)
Am
C
G
D
G
Em
G*
D*
C*
(VER)
For a
G
walking ghost, that
Em
southern
coast
Was a
C
lawless piece of heav
G
en
There were
D
bayou dives and oyster knives
And
C
liquor for to drown
In the Q
G
beam lights and
Em
rooster
fights
And mon
C
ths I don’t reme
G
mber
My
D
winning hand went busted
And my lu
C
ck was winding down
In the sout
G
heast Texas
Em
setting
sun
I s
C
it surveying dam
G
aged
done
We
D
wish you luck and fortune, hon
We’re
C
closing in an hour
Backed
G
up to the
Em
Trinity
With
C
no more road to ru
G
n
No lo
D
nger can I wander all
Alone
C
on my own power
(CHO)
And
G
try to put the pa
Bm
st
behind
Per
C
haps it’s only
G
in your mind
They c
Am
lose the doors at nine
C
At Channel Mar
G
ker
sevent
D
een
If
G
pressure makes a
Em
diamond,
babe
I still
G
might
C
come out
C
clean
(OUTRO)
Tej
G
anos curse in S
Em
panish
And a
C
Cajun eyes the weat
G
her
There’s black
D
mud on the belly
Of the ye
C
llow colt I ride
G
Never thought I’d ca
Em
tch
myself
So
C
calm out in the o
G
pen
As a gu
D
lf storm deals in bucket loads
And
C
hits from every side
