Hard Luck Saint chords by Joe Ely
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Intro 1
(G major) (F major) (C major) (G major) (G minor) (G major) (F major) (C major) (G major) (D major)
Verse 1
He (G major) said he discovered
Amer (F major) ica with (C major) nothin' but a paper sack (G major)
The first sight he remembered (F major) was
the Statue (C major) of Liberty's (G major) back (G minor)
He (G major) lost his mama on the Brooklyn (F major)
street when (C major) he was just thirteen
(G major) He (G minor) made (G major) his way out west, (F major)
he'd seen some (C major) pictures in a magazine
(D major)
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Verse 2
He (G major) worked a while as a roughneck (F major)
in the (C major) Floydada Black Oil fields (G major)
And the Fat Oilmen of Texas (F major) would
(C major) watch him a- tap his (G major) heels
As the oil poured in and the cotton (F major)
grew and the (C major) Cadillacs fell like rain (G major)
He did the work of a dozen (F major) men
and (C major) never did com (D major) plain
Verse 3
(D major)
If you (C major) added up his troubles
they'd fill (G major) (D major) the prairie sky (G major)
But he lived more in an hour
than most men in their (D major) lives
He nev (G major) er preached a sermon
and an (C major) angel he (G major) ain't
But anyone (D major) can tell (G major) you
he's a (D major) Hard Luck Saint
Verse 4
(G major) He (C major) (G major) (C major) (G major) (C major) (G major) (C major)
(G major) worked his way
to a cotton (F major) town down (C major) Highway (G major) 84
And that is where I met (F major) him in
a (C major) used cloth (G major) ing store
With my mama and my papa,
(F major) little (C major) Mark and Muleshoe (G major) Bill
I still remember (F major) tearstains on
a (C major) dusty window sill
(D major)
Verse 5
If you (C major) added up his troubles
they'd fill (G major) the prairie sky
But he lived more in an hour
than most men in their (D major) lives
He never (G major) preached a sermon
and an (C major) angel he (G major) ain't
But anyone can tell you he's a (D major) Hard Luck Saint
Interlude 1
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Verse 6
He (G major) never stayed around (F major) long but he
(C major) never said (G major) 'goodbye'
No tellin' where he went (F major) to,
he walked (C major) a rugged mile (G major) (G minor) (G major)
He might just pass through your (F major) town
(C major) one of these a- hard luck (G major) days
And pass right through to the (F major) other
side (C major) goin' his hard luck ways
(D major)
Verse 7
If you (C major) added up his troubles
they'd fill (G major) the prairie sky
He lived more in an hour than
most men in their lives (D major)
He nev (G major) er preached a sermon
and an (C major) angel he (G major) ain't
But anyone (D major) can tell (G major) you (D major) (G major) he's a (D major) Hard Luck Saint
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Hard Luck Saint
Joe Ely
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