Ain't Ever Goin' Back chords by John Hiatt

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Verse 1

Come out of a fireball

Notes burning and the letters scrawled

I ain't ever goin' back no

Verse 2

Bare light, bulb and a hotplate

Was there that I finally met my fate

And I ain't ever goin'

back no more

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Verse 3

She danced the room and she

made it fine

I sang a song about a crooked line

I ain't ever goin' back

no more

And she's my first love and

Verse 4
D 
 (D major) 
she's my last
Don't ask me how it ever
C 
 (C major) came to pass
'Cause I ain't ever
G 
C 
G 
goin' back  (G major) no more  (C major)  (G major) 

Verse 5

I ain't ever going back no more

Wouldn't even try to find that door

I ain't ever goin' back no more

Verse 6
G 
 (G major) 
D 
I don't care what the past  (D major) has in store
C 
I ain't ever goin'  (C major) back no more
G 
I ain't ever goin' back  (G major) no more
C 
A  (C major) 

Verse 7
G 
 (G major) pint of gin and a long
D 
 (D major) bus trip
C 
Somebody said, "You just  (C major) get over it"
And I ain't ever goin'
G 
C 
G 
 (G major) back no more  (C major)  (G major) 

Verse 8

I see her face at every shitty bar

That I have to play to pay for this guitar

And I ain't ever goin' back no

Verse 9
D 
I'm singing every song  (D major) for her tonight
So bartender,
C 
would you  (C major) hit the lights?
G 
'Cause I ain't ever goin'  (G major) back no
C 
G 
more  (C major)  (G major) 

Verse 10
D 
A little something to remem (D major) 
ber me
C 
It's been so long, Lord,  (C major) she mustn't see
G 
I ain't ever goin'  (G major) back no more
C 
G 
 (C major) And I ain't ever goin'  (G major) back

Verse 11

I ain't ever goin' back no more

Wouldn't even try to find that door

I ain't ever goin' back no more

Verse 12

I don't care what the past has in store

I ain't ever goin' back no more

Interlude 1

Verse 13

Dust settles in a darkened room

Whiskey steals away the sense

of doom

And I ain't ever goin' back no more

Verse 14

We made love and we made hate

Never could seem to get it straight

I ain't ever goin' back

no more, baby

Verse 15
D 
You're branded on my soul  (D major) 
and  in my mind
I keep running up and down
C 
this  (C major) old fence line
G 
C 
G 
I ain't ever goin'  (G major) back no more  (C major)  (G major) 

Verse 16

Only one thing in my life is true

Honey, I will remember you

And I ain't ever goin' back no more

Verse 17
D 
I ain't ever goin'  (D major) back no
more
C 
Wouldn't even try to  (C major) find that door
G 
I ain't ever goin'  (G major) back no
C 
G 
more  (C major)  (G major) 