Key: E major
Verse 1
D
G
A
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I was far from home and lost and lonely,
namelessly bouncing around.
Spent too much time
and money in this little
Georgia town.
just like running out of cash.
-way ticket back to
Nashville.
who's learned it the hard way.
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D
Just like poor
Blanche
Dubois, I've also come to put my faith in
The charity of strangers and
honest transportation
bullet budget bus
down the back looking sus
belongings in a busted plastic bag
And all the
the time to take a drag
A
D
We'd only just left
Chattanooga town
and I thought it prudent
To sit beside this young and wholesome
graduating college student
to go to do her
PhD
Australia or
Italy
you better come study with us
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D
I counted six loud popping thuds
that came in quick succession
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They went, that's my im pression
just throwin' rocks for fun
Them be shots fired from a gun
And we all looked at each other
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D
Then underneath the small explosion
The engine gave a hellish roar
Like when the stick slips outta
gear
And your foot's flat to the floor
And started swerving across the freeway
With about two metres leeway
They'd use for the morning edition
We assumed the crash position
I did not know
God, please save my neck
G
A
Don't want to die in this burning wreck
she had all our souls to save
She stopped short on the verge of
what might have been our grave
they've just been in the movies
guess what just happened to me
soon as you heard the sirens wail,
flashing like
Boxing
Day sale.
took out his pad to take some names,
Patting the heads of children,
and flirting with the dames,
you've come to any harm,
He had
John
now, you might be sitting for some time
from there surveyed the crime
First shot it grazed off the flank,
the second barely missed the tank
Then the six shot popped the tire
and then it shredded to the core
the story filtered through
The shooter had been local and
the cops they now knew who
back at the
Chattanooga station
down but she's impatient
and a timetable to honour
let the bullets rain upon us
God, how close we've come
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D
To marching towards your kingdom drum
God, how close we've been
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D
G
To staring down eternity
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When the last cop pulled away,
we had been stuck out there for hours
It didn't take too long till the
collective mood, it sours
she's wailing that she's now gonna be late
cancel tonight's date
you're really giving me the blues
Nashville, it didn't even make the news
A
D
In the history of
America, it was just another day
Now I'm made into that warm bed,
in there all day I'll stay
riding the bus from
Chattanooga
with an outline like a luger
is that it's difficult to tell
the bus or them who's punctual
you
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsD G A F#
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