Jumped Head First chords by Jesse Dayton

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Intro 1

Stumblin' footsteps on

Verse 1
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the ground
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All drunked up like Cooter Brown
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I can hear him make
his way up the porch
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Blues and flames, a walkin' torch
Long as the night without a friend
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If you don't believe me,
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well just look around
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Well, jumped headfirst
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back in the shallow wind
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Em 
Well, they jumped headfirst
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back in the shallow wind
He married my grandma in 43
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and Uncle Sam shipped him off to Italy.
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The Second War put blood on his hands.
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He lost his mind and he
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lost his friends.
Well, since then,
he ain't never been the same.
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C 
A single malt seems to eat him.
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Well, he jumped headfirst
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Em 
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Back in his shallow grave
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Em 
Well, jumped head first back
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in his shallow grave
Well, a local veterans hall
helped get him some land
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Bought him a lumber mill
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in East Alabama
Daddy and my uncles,
they did the best they could
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Workin' like the devil,
Em 
choppin' wood
Passed out in the loft on the hay
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C 
Just a little cigarette burned it all away
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So he jumped headfirst
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Em 
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back in his shallow grave
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Em 
Well, he jumped headfirst
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back in his whiskey grave
So he moved to Texas
with the old field trash
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Roughneck and spindle top,
barely any cash
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Then we lost my uncle in a Vietcong bin
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So they drove to Houston
where they flew the body in
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And about that time they had little old me
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I hear he's my grandma
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through her misery
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Well they jumped headfirst
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Back into 1943
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Em 
Well they jumped headfirst
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into 43

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Interlude 1

Verse 2
G 
His old work truck's in
the barn caked with rust.
C 
Since Grandma passed,
the place is full of dust.
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Just him and the single mom,
except for holidays.
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And  the grandkids come over
and there ain't nothin' to say
Em 
Long as the night without a friend
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C 
If you don't believe me, y just look at him
G 
So he jumped headfirst
B 
Em 
C 
back in the shallow wind
G 
Em 
Well, he jumped headfirst
D 
back in the shallow wind
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