Tom Ames' Prayer chords by
Robert Earl Keen
Jr.

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Key: G major•

Verse 1

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everyone in Nachadoces knew

Tom Ames

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come from some bad kin

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cause the sheriff caught

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him stealin chickens and such

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by the time that he was ten

one day his daddy took a ten

dollar bill

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and he tucked it in his hand

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he said i know that you're

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headed for trouble son

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your mamma woudln't understand

Verse 2

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so he took his dad's money

and his brother's old bay

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and he left without of thanks

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he fell into this crowd in some border town

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and he took to robbing banks

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Interlude 1

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Verse 3

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outside the law your luck will run out fast

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a few years came and went

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till he's trapt in a alley in abliene

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with all but four shells spent

Verse 4

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and he realized praying

was the only thing

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that he had never tried

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well he wasn't sure that

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he knew quite how

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but he looked up to the sky

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he said you don't owe me nothing

and as far as i know lord

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i don't owe nothing to you

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i aint asking for a mircle lord

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just a little bit of luck will do

and you know i aint ever prayed lord

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cause it always seemed to me

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that praying is the same as begging lord and i don't

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take no charity

Interlude 2

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Verse 5

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right now lord with my back to the wall

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Can't help but recall

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How they nearly hung me

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for stealin' a horse

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in Fort Smith Arkansas

Verse 6

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judge Parker said guilty

and the gavel came down

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just like a cannon shot

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i went away quietly

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and I began to file and plot

Verse 7

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they sent the preacher down to my cell

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he said the Lord is your only hope

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he's the only friend that you gonna

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have son

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when you hit the end of Park

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er's rope

Verse 8

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and i guess he coulda' kept on

preachin' 'till Christmas

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but he turned his back on me

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i put a homemade blade to

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that golden throat

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and asked the deputy for the key

Verse 9

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it

ain't the

first trouble i seen before

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as you already know

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had some help from you Lord

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and the devil himself

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it's been strictly touch and go

Verse 10

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yeah but who in the hell am I talkin' to

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there ain't no one here but me

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so he cocked both his pistols

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and spit in the dirt

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and he walked out in the street

Outro 1

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The original key of Tom Ames' Prayer by Robert Earl Keen, Jr. is G major.

The primary chords used in Tom Ames' Prayer are G, D, Em, C.

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