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Return of the Grievous Angel chords by Gram Parsons

  • G

  • C

  • D

  • A

  • F#dim

    4
  • Em

  • Bm

    2
Verse 1
G
Won't you scratch my
C
G
itch sweet Annie Rich
D
G
And welcome me back to town
Come out on your porch or I'll step
C
G
into your parlour
A
D
And I'll show you how it all went down
G
Out with the truckers and the kickers
C
and the cowboy angels
G
And a good saloon in every single town
C
Verse 2
Oh and I remember something
D
G
you once told me
C
D
And I'll be damned if it did
G
not come true
C
D
G
Twenty thousand roads I went down,
D
F#dim
Em
down, down
G
C
And they all lead me straight
D
G
back home to you

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Verse 3
Bm
C
'Cause I headed West to grow
D
G
up with the country
D
G
Em
D
Across those prairies with
G
those waves of grain
Bm
And I saw my devil,
C
D
G
and I saw my deep blue sea
C
D
And I thought about a calico bonnet
C
D
G
from Cheyenne to Tennessee
Verse 4
G
C
G
We flew straight across that river bridge,
D
G
last night half past two
C
The switch- man wave his lantern goodbye
G
A
D
and good day as we went roling through
G
Billboards and truck stops pass
C
by the grievous angel
G
D
G
Em
G
C
And now I know just what I have to do (pick for me
G
D
G
C
G
A
D
G
C
G
D
G
Em
James)
Verse 5
Bm
C
And the man on the radio won't
D
G
D
G
leave me alone
Em
He wants to take my money for something
D
G
that I've never been shown
Bm
And I saw my devil,
C
D
G
and I saw my deep blue see
C
D
And I thought about a calico bonnet
C
D
from Cheyenne to Tennessee
G
Verse 6
The news I could bring I
C
G
met up with the king
D
G
On his head an amphetamine crown
He talked about unbuckling
C
that old bible belt
G
A
D
And lighted out for some desert town
G
Out with the truckers and the kickers
C
and the cowboy angels
G
And a good saloon in every single town
C
Verse 7
Oh but I remember something
D
G
D
G
you once told me
C
D
And I'll be damned if it
G
did not come true
C
D
G
Twenty thousand roads I went down,
D
Em
down, down
G
C
And they all lead me straight
D
G
back home to you
C
D
G
Twenty thousand roads I went down,
D
Em
down, down
C
And they all lead me straight
D
G
back home to you
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