Primer Coat chords by Drive-By Truckers

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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The old man's
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out by the swimming pool
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He goes there to think
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He talks on the phone sometimes
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Hardly mentions a thing
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Said he needed it for his knees
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He used to swim back
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in school
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Graduated in 84, quit drinking in 92

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Verse 2
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He
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used to call her
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a basket case for going on like she did
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The only girl of a foreman's wife,
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she'd never let him forget
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It comes to women and they survive but
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when the same comes to men
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Someone comes for their babies,
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something dies there and then

Interlude 1

Verse 3
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Slinging gravel in parking lots and
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looking tough on the hood
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A girl as plain as a primer coat
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leaves nothing misunderstood
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Her mother and I through trembling lips,
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a steady hand on his own
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The future of every rebel cause,
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when all the fight in him's gone
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Verse 4
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My
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sister's marrying in the fall and everything will be fine
Mama's planning the wedding,
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Daddy's planning on crying
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She's slipping out of her
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apron strings
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You best leave him be
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He's staring through his own taillights and gathering