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Tom Ames' Prayer chords by 
Steve Earle 
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Key: G major•BPM: 102
Verse 1
G
Everyone in Nacadoches knew Tom
D
Ame's would come to some bad end
Em
Well the sheriff had caught him
C
stealin' chickens and such
G
D
G
By the time that he was ten
Verse 2
G
And one day his daddy took
a ten dollar bill
D
And he tucked it in his hand
Em
He said I can tell you're
C
headed for trouble son
G
And your momma wouldn't understand
Verse 3
D
G
So he took that money and his
brothers old bay
And he left without a word of thanks
D
Em
C
Fell in with a crowd in some border town
G
And took to robbing banks
C
G
D
Em
C
G
D
G
Verse 4
Well outside the law your
luck will run out fast
D
And a few years came and went
Em
C
'Till he's trapped in an alley in Abilene
G
D
G
With all but four shells spent
Verse 5
G
And he realized praying
was the only thing
D
That he hadn't ever tried
Em
Well he wasn't sure
C
G
he knew quite how
But he looked up to the sky
Verse 6
G
Said you don't owe me nothing
and as far as I know
D
Lord don't owe nothing to you
Em
C
And I ain't asking for a miracle Lord
G
D
G
Just a little bit of luck will do
Verse 7
G
And you know I ain't
never prayed before
D
But it always seemed to me
Em
If praying is the same as
C
begging Lord
G
D
G
I don't take no charity
C
G
D
Em
C
G
Verse 8
G
Yeah but right now Lord with my
back to the wall
D
Can't help but recall
Em
How they nearly hung me
C
for stealing a horse
G
In Fort Smith Arkansas
Verse 9
G
Judge Parker said guilty and
the gavel came down
D
Just like a cannon shot
Em
C
And I went away quietly
G
And I began to file and plot
Verse 10
G
Well they sent the preacher down to my cell
D
He said the Lord is your only hope
Em
He's the only friend that
C
you gonna have
G
When you hit the end of
D
G
Parker's rope
Verse 11
G
Well I guess he could of kept on
preaching till Christmas
D
But he turned his back on me
Em
I put a home made blade
C
to that golden throat
G
And asked the deputy for the key
Interlude 1
G
C
G
D
Em
C
G
C
G
D
Em
C
G
D
Verse 12
G
Well it ain't the first close
call I ever had
D
As I'm sure you already know
Em
I had some help from you Lord and the dev
C
G
il himself
D
G
It's been strictly touch and go
Yeah but who in the hell am
I talking to
D
There ain't no one here but me
Em
And then he cocked both his pistols
G
and he spit in the dirt
D
And he walked out in the street
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