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Back to the Wall chords by 
Steve Earle 
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Key: A major•BPM: 122
Intro 1
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C
G
C
G
C
G
C
G
Verse 1
G
Sometimes in
C
the evenings I start to get that feeling
G
Like I'm empty inside
C
I know I'm doin' good now but tonight
I'm headed downtown
G
Down by the riverside
Verse 2
G
C
I sit underneath the freeway with an
old friend from the old days
G
And a bottle of wine
He used to call me "Big Time",
C
said he knew someday that I'd shine
G
Said he'd seen all the signs
He said
Verse 3
G
Keep yourself to yourself
C
G
Keep your bedroll dry
And boy you never can tell
C
G
What the shadows hide
Keep one eye on the ground
C
G
Pick up whatever you find
D
'Cause you've got no place to fall
G
When your back's to
Interlude 1
the wall
G
C
G
C
G
Verse 4
G
He's gettin' old and it's showin' so
C
I asked him how it's goin'
G
He said "I've seen better I guess
I've been rained on, I've been frozen,
C
but this here's the life I've chosen
G
If it just wasn't for the loneliness"
Verse 5
G
Now this river suits me to a T. but if
C
you're trying to raise a family
G
This it ain't no place to be
Hell there's a kid down by the dump there,
C
ought to be in grade school somewhere
G
Now he hangs out with me,
now I told him
Verse 6
G
Keep yourself to yourself
C
G
Keep your bedroll dry
And boy you never can tell
C
G
What the shadows hide
Keep one eye on the ground
C
G
Pick up whatever you find
D
'Cause you've got no place to fall
G
When your back's to the wall
Interlude 2
C
G
C
G
Bb
G
C
G
C
G
C
G
D
G
C
F
C
G
C
G
C
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C
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Verse 7
G
Well we finished off the
bottle and I told him,
C
"Joe I think I ought to be headed uptown
G
Well it was late, and I'd been drinkin',
C
drivin' home I got to thinkin'
G
'Bout what's been going down
Verse 8
G
'Cause they're nervous down on Wall Street,
C
but they're trying to keep it upbeat
G
Or maybe they just don't care
Down at the river eyes are burnin'
C
cause they feel the tables turnin'
G
So if you wind up down there
Verse 9
G
Just keep yourself to yourself
C
G
Keep your bedroll dry
And boy you never can tell
C
G
What the shadows hide
Keep one eye on the ground
C
G
Pick up whatever you find
D
'Cause you've got no place to fall
Outro 1
When your back's to the wall
G
C
G
C
G
C
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C
G
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