Tom Ames' Prayer chords by
Steve Earle

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Verse 1
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Everyone in Nacadoches knew Tom
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Ame's would come to some bad end
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Well the sheriff had caught him
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stealin' chickens and such
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By the time that he was ten

Verse 2
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And 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 can tell you're
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headed for trouble son
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And your momma wouldn't understand

Verse 3
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So he took that money and his
brothers old bay
And he left without a word of thanks
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Fell in with a crowd in some border town
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And took to robbing banks
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Verse 4
Well outside the law your
luck will run out fast
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And a few years came and went
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'Till he's trapped in an alley in Abilene
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With all but four shells spent

Verse 5
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And he realized praying
was the only thing
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That he hadn't ever tried
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Well he wasn't sure
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he knew quite how
But he looked up to the sky

Verse 6
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Said you don't owe me nothing
and as far as I know
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Lord don't owe nothing to you
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And I ain't asking for a miracle Lord
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Just a little bit of luck will do

Verse 7
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And you know I ain't
never prayed before
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But it always seemed to me
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If praying is the same as
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begging Lord
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I don't take no charity
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Verse 8
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Yeah but 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 stealing a horse
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In Fort Smith Arkansas

Verse 9
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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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And I went away quietly
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And I  began to file and plot

Verse 10
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Well 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
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you gonna have
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When you hit the end of
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Parker's rope

Verse 11
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Well I guess he could of kept on
preaching till Christmas
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But he turned his back on me
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I put a home made blade
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to that golden throat
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And asked the deputy for the key

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Verse 12
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Well it ain't the first close
call I ever had
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As I'm sure you already know
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I had some help from you Lord and the dev
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il himself
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It's been strictly touch and go
Yeah but who in the hell am
I talking to
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There ain't no one here but me
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And then he cocked both his pistols
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and he spit in the dirt
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And he walked out in the street

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