Back to the Wall chords by
Steve Earle

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Intro 1

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Verse 1
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Sometimes in
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the evenings I start to get that feeling
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Like I'm empty inside
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I know I'm doin' good now but tonight
I'm headed downtown
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Down by the riverside

Verse 2
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I sit underneath the freeway with an
old friend from the old days
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And a bottle of wine
He used to call me "Big Time",
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said he knew someday that I'd shine
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Said he'd seen all the signs
He said

Verse 3
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Keep yourself to yourself
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Keep your bedroll dry
And boy you never can tell
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A A 
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What the shadows hide
Keep one eye on the ground
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Pick up whatever you find
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'Cause you've got no place to fall
A A 
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When your back's to

Interlude 1

the wall

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Verse 4
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He's gettin' old and it's showin' so
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I  asked him how it's goin'
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He said "I've seen better I guess
I've been rained on, I've been frozen,
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but this here's the life I've chosen
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If it just wasn't for the loneliness"

Verse 5
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Now this river suits me to a T. but if
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you're trying to raise a family
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This it ain't no place to be
Hell there's a kid down by the dump there,
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ought to be in grade school somewhere
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Now he hangs out with me,
now I told him

Verse 6
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Keep yourself to yourself
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Keep your bedroll dry
And boy you never can tell
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What the shadows hide
Keep one eye on the ground
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Pick up whatever you find
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'Cause you've got no place to fall
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When your back's to the wall

Interlude 2
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A A 
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A A 
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A A 
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A A 
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E E 
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A A 
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A A 
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A A 
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Verse 7
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Well we finished off the
bottle and I told him,
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"Joe I think I ought to be headed uptown
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Well it was late, and I'd been drinkin',
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drivin' home I got to thinkin'
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'Bout what's been going down

Verse 8
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'Cause they're nervous down on Wall Street,
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but they're trying to keep it upbeat
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Or maybe they just don't care
Down at the river eyes are burnin'
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cause they feel the tables turnin'
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So if you wind up down there

Verse 9
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Just keep yourself to yourself
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Keep your bedroll dry
And boy you never can tell
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What the shadows hide
Keep one eye on the ground
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A A 
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Pick up whatever you find
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'Cause you've got no place to fall