Key: C major
Verse 1
F
Bb
I slipped on her shoe,
F
she was a perfect size seven
I said "there's no smokin'
Dm
in the store ma'am"
F
Csus4
Bb
She crossed her legs and then
We made some small talk,
F
that's where it should have stopped
Dm
She slipped me a number,
F
Bb
I put it in my pocket
My hand slipped up her skirt,
F
everything slipped my mind
Dm
In that little roadhouse
Bb
F
On highway 29
Verse 2
Bb
F
It was a small town bank, it was a mess
Dm
C
Bb
Well I had a gun, you know the rest
Money on the floorboards,
shirt was covered in blood
F
And she was cryin',
Dm
her and me we headed south
Bb
F
On highway twenty nine
Verse 3
Dm
In a little desert motel,
Bb
the air it was hot and clean
F
L slept the sleep of the dead,
C
I didn't dream
Dm
I woke in the morning
Bb
washed my face in the sink
F
We headed into the Sierra
Madres 'cross the borderline
C
Bb
The winter sun,
F
shot through the black trees
Dm
I told myself it was all something in her
C
But as we drove I knew it was
Bb
something in me
Something had been comin'
F
for a long long time
Dm
And something that was here with me now
Bb
On highway twenty nine
F
Dm
F
Verse 4
The road was filled with broken
Bb
F
glass and gasoline
Dm
F
She wasn't sayin'
Bb
nothin'', it was just a dream
The wind come silent
through the windshield
F
All I could see was snow and sky and pines
Dm
I closed my eyes and I was runnin',
F
Bb
I was runnin' then I was fly in'
Outro 1
Bb
F
Dm
F
Bb
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