Hard Luck Saint chords by
Joe Ely

N/A

Key: G major•

Intro 1

G

G

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F

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C

C

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G

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Gm

Gm

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G

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F

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C

C

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Verse 1

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He said he discovered

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America with nothin' but a paper sack

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F

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The first sight he remembered was

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C

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Gm

Gm

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the Statue of Liberty's back

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G

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He lost his mama on the Brooklyn

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C

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street when he was just thirteen

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G

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Gm

Gm

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He made his way out west,

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C

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he'd seen some pictures in a magazine

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D

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Verse 2

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He worked a while as a roughneck

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C

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in the Floydada Black Oil fields

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And the Fat Oilmen of Texas would

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C

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watch him a- tap his heels

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As the oil poured in and the cotton

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C

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G

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grew and the Cadillacs fell like rain

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He did the work of a dozen men

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C

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and never did complain

Verse 3

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If you added up his troubles

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D

D

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they'd fill the prairie sky

But he lived more in an hour

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than most men in their lives

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G

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He never preached a sermon

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C

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G

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and an angel he ain't

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D

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But anyone can tell you

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D

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he's a Hard Luck Saint

Verse 4

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G

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C

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C

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G

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C

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G

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He

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worked his way

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C

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to a cotton town down Highway 84

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And that is where I met him in

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C

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a used clothing store

With my mama and my papa,

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C

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little Mark and Muleshoe Bill

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I still remember tearstains on

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C

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a dusty window sill

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Verse 5

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C

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If you added up his troubles

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G

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they'd fill the prairie sky

But he lived more in an hour

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D

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than most men in their lives

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G

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He never preached a sermon

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C

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G

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and an angel he ain't

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D

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But anyone can tell you he's a Hard Luck Saint

Interlude 1

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G

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Gm

Gm

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C

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Verse 6

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G

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He never stayed around long but he

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C

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never said 'goodbye'

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No tellin' where he went to,

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C

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G

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Gm

Gm

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he walked a rugged mile

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He might just pass through your town

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C

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G

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one of these a- hard luck days

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And pass right through to the other

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C

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side goin' his hard luck ways

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Verse 7

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If you added up his troubles

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G

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they'd fill the prairie sky

He lived more in an hour than

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D

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most men in their lives

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G

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He never preached a sermon

C

C

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G

G

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and an angel he ain't

D

D

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G

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But anyone can tell you he's a Hard Luck Saint

Outro 1

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