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Decent Man chords by 
James Mcmurtry 
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Key: D major•BPM: 92
Intro 1
D
G
D
G
D
Verse 1
D
He was more than just a decent man,
G
D
best friend I ever had
G
When you're shooting at a coffee can
D
A
, a thirty eight don't kick that bad
G
A
D
But it kicks right through my bones
every second of every day
G
Clacking by like cobblestones
A
D
under broken wheels
Verse 2
G
And if the truth be known,
D
I wasn't doing that well
I wasn't paying attention,
G
A
I brought it on myself
G
A
And I blamed it on the gods that
D
G
seemed to smile on everybody else
I got so inside out,
A
G
I didn't know what was real
A
My fields are empty now
Verse 3
Bm
A
G
A
Bm
My ground won't take the plow
D
G
A
It's washed down to gravel
Bm
A
and stones
G
A
It's only good for burying
D
bones
G
D
G
Verse 4
D
A
I took the pistol off the wall,
G
somebody hollered, "Put it back
A
D
A
Sit down, dad, before you fall down,
G
A
you got no earthly use for that"
G
A
But I slipped out the kitchen door,
D
A
Bm
D
saddled up the sway backed mule
G
Cinched her tight and swung on board,
A
rode off like a drunken fool
G
A
Rode right on off the world,
D
just like it never mattered none
G
There wasn't nothing but me and the hurt,
A
and the biting cold, and the heft of that gun
G
A
In the pocket of a sheepskin coat,
D
A
Bm
A
moonlight in a madman's eye
G
For the unfairness of it all,
A
G
surely something had to die
A
My fields are empty now
Verse 5
Bm
A
G
A
Bm
A
My ground won't take the plow
G
A
It's washed down to gravel
Bm
A
and stones
G
A
D
It's only good for burying bones
Interlude 1
G
A
D
G
A
Bm
A
G
A
D
Bm
G
A
D
Asus4
A
Verse 6
D
He came out in the lantern light
G
His face in the flash was the last I saw
D
G
of the world when it was still right
A
G
A
I didn't watch him fall, I knew I'd hit him good,
D
A
Bm
D
twice in the chest without a thought
G
Turned the mule towards the county seat,
A
like I knew I ought
Verse 7
G
A
Bm
A
G
My fields are empty now
A
Bm
My ground won't take the plow
A
G
A
It's washed down to gravel
Bm
A
and stones
G
A
Bm
A
G
It's only good for burying bones
A
My fields are empty now
Verse 8
D
G
A
D
A
My ground won't take the plow
G
A
It's washed down to gravel
Bm
A
and stones
G
It's only good for burying
D
bones
Interlude 2
G
A
D
A
G
A
Verse 9
D
Lola comes to visit,
A
G
A
just nothing I can say
D
A
We sit here of an afternoon 'til
G
it's time for her to go away
A
G
A
She rides home on that same mule that
D
A
Bm
A
brought me to this place
G
Don't know how she even stands
A
to look upon her daddy's face
Verse 10
D
He was more than just a decent man
G
D
Best friend I ever had
When you're shooting at a coffee can
A
G
A
Thirty eight don't kick that bad
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