Tune down a whole step - DGCFAD

G

G D
You can lie to your Mama, you can lie to your race
G C
but you can't lie to nobody with that cold steel in your face.
G D
And the same God that you're so afraid is gonna send you to hell
G C
is the same one you're gonna answer to when the pin hits the shell.

G D
Your sister's been blaming everybody.
G BC
I don't blame her, man, I guess I'd do the same
G D
if you was my brother, man, I'd probably stand by you.
G C
But you ain't, man, so I got to go my way.

Em
And I ain't gonna crawl upon no high horse
D
Cause I got thrown off of one
G
when I was young and I ain't no cowboy
C
so I ain't going where I don't belong.
Em D
It wouldn't do you no good to let you know that it damned near killed
me too
G C
so I ain't gonna mourn for you, man, now that you're gone.

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G D
Me and you, we liked our pills and our whiskey.
G
But you don't want your head full of either one when
C
the house gets quiet and dark.
G D
Feeling good it used to be so damned easy,
G C
racing trains from 2nd Street to Avalon.

Em
Take a trip down memory lane,
D
You don't see no friendly faces
G
all the houses have been painted and
C
nobody knows your name.
Em
It's enough to make a man not want
D
to be nobody's Daddy,
G C
when all he thinks he's got left to hand down is guilt and shame.

Em
And I ain't gonna crawl upon no high horse
D
Cause I got thrown off of one
G
when I was young and I ain't no cowboy
C
so I ain't going where I don't belong.
Em D
It wouldn't do you no good to let you know that it damned near killed
me too
G C
so I ain't gonna mourn for you, man, now that you're gone.

G D
You can lie to your Mama, you can lie to your race
G C
but you can't lie to nobody with that cold steel in your face.
G D
And the same God that you're so afraid is gonna send you to hell
G C
is the same one you're gonna answer to when the pin hits the shell.