Live Oak original guitar chords by 
Jason Isbell 
Key: C# minor•
Chorus 1
There's a man who walks beside me
It is who I used to be
And I wonder if she sees him
and confuses him with me
And I wonder who she's pinin' for
on nights I'm not around
F#m
E/G#
Could it be the man who did the things
Amaj9
I'm living now
Verse 1
C#m
I was rougher than a timber
B/D#
E
shippin' out of Fond du Lac
F#m
E/G#
When I headed south at 17
Amaj9
ol' sheriff on my back
C#m
I never held a lover
B/D#
E
in my arms or in my gaze
F#m
E/G#
Amaj9
So I found another vic tim every cou ple days
Verse 2
C#m
B/D#
But the night I fell in love with her
E
I made my weakness known
F#m
E/G#
Through the fires and the farm ers
Amaj9
diggin' dust y fields alone
C#m
The jealous innuendos
B/D#
E
of the lone ly hearted men
F#m
E/G#
Let me know what kind of coun try
Amaj9
I was sleep ing in
Verse 3
C#m
Well you couldn't stay a loner
B/D#
E
on the plains before the war
F#m
E/G#
My neigh bors took to slight in' me
Amaj9
I had to ask what for
C#m
B/D#
Rumors of my wicked ness
E
had reached our little town
F#m
E/G#
Soon she'd heard about the boys
Amaj9
I used to hang around
Verse 4
C#m
We'd robbed a Great Lakes freighter,
B/D#
E
killed a couple men or more
F#m
E/G#
And I told her her eyes flickered
Amaj9
like the sharp steel of a sword
C#m
All the things that she'd suspected
B/D#
E
I'd ex pected her to fear
F#m
E/G#
Was the truth that drew her to me
Amaj9
when I land ed here
Chorus 2
C#m
There's a man who walks beside me
B/D#
E
He is who I used to be
F#m
E/G#
And I won der if she sees him
Amaj9
and con fuses him with me
C#m
B/D#
And I won der who she's pinin' for
E
on nights I'm not around
F#m
E/G#
Could it be the man who did the things
Amaj9
I'm living down?
Solo 1
C#m
B/D#
E
F#m
E/G#
Amaj9
C#m
B/D#
E
F#m
E/G#
Amaj9
Amaj9
Verse 5
C#m
Well I carved a cross from live oak
B/D#
E
and a box from shortleaf pine
F#m
E/G#
Buried her so deep
Amaj9
she touched the wa ter table line
C#m
I picked up what I needed
B/D#
E
and I headed south again
F#m
E/G#
To my self I wondered would I ever
Amaj9
find another friend
Verse 6
C#m
There's a man who walks beside her,
B/D#
E
it is who I used to be
F#m
E/G#
And I won der if she sees him
Amaj9
and con fuses him with me
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsF#m E/G# Amaj9 C#m B/D#...
F#m
E/G#
Amaj9
C#m
B/D#
E
Capo: 4
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