Sam's Town chords by
Kevin Welch
The Overtones

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Key: E major

Verse 1
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A A 
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Sam nev
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er believed that he ever
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could be anything special to anyone
But he didn't mind, no, he was the kind
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who could get along fine
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A A 
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with everyone
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A A 
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He had a job at the taxico,
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and if  you were a stranger
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and things were slow
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He'd be glad just to put it all down
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Em Em 
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He'd take you out and show you
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G G 
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D D 
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around Sam's town
Yeah, you know old Sam
had a little bit of land
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A  quarter section or so
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But the creek ran shallow
and the fields lay fallow
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Couldn't get a thing to grow
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So when the land man
came to his trailer one night
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Talkin' percentages
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and mineral rights
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Didn't take long for the
deal to go down
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They was sinkin' a drilling rig
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deep in the ground
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Yeah, Sam's ground
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Mm -hmm
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D D 
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A A 
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Yeah, now, ain't life funny?
Ain't life strange?
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Ain't it amazing how your life can change?
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It came rushin' like a big black bull
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G G 
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They were pippin' it out by the barrel full
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And  pretty soon the
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D D 
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word got round
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D D 
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G G 
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On  down in Sam's town
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Yeah, yeah
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D D 
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Well, some time went by
The yield was high
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The money just rollin' in
Still old Sam stayed a simple man,
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you never know he had
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an equal to speak
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A A 
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But he built a new wing on
the old high school
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The church house finally
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got a brand new roof
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Then a park with a pool,
a big playground
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Spreading every bit of that
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G G 
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D D 
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G G 
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money around
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A A 
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Well, ain't life funny, ain't life strange,
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ain't it amazing how
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your life can change?
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One day, like the Lord just threw a switch,
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that well went as dry
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as a dust bowl ditch.
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And then a man came down
from the government,
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he was wanting to know
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where all that money
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A A 
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When Sam just smiled, he said, well,
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D D 
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I'd be proud to show you around,
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G G 
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boy, the isle of town.
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A A 
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Come on. Yeah, ain't life funny?
Ain't life strange?
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Ain't it just amazing
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how your life can change?
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Tax man auctioned off that land,
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but the town pitched in
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and they bought it all back for him.
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A A 
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Now,     he's stiffed down
at the Texaco.
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An  d if you're a stranger,
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things are slow.
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He'd be glad just to put it all down.
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D D 
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He'll take you out,
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he'll show you around.
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G G 
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D D 
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G G 
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Yeah, Sam's town.
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G G 
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It's Uncle Sam's town now.
Yeah, yeah,
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