Key: G major
Verse 1
B
F#
B
Well, I
pulled on trouble's braids
And I hid in the briars out
C#m
by the quick mud
B
Stayin' away from the main roads
Bm
B
Passin' out wolf tickets downwind
C#m
B
from the blood hounds
Verse 2
B
And I pulled on trouble's braids
And I lay by a cypress as quiet as a
stone 'til the bleeding stopped
I blew the weather vane
off some old road house
E
B
I built a fire in the skeleton
backseat of an old Tucker
E
And I pulled on trouble's braids
B
E
B
I spanked cold red mud
Verse 3
where
the hornet stung deep
And I tossed in the ditch in a restless sleep
And I pulled on trouble's braids
Verse 4
B
I hung my rain- soaked jacket on
some old barbed wire
Poured cold rusty water on a miserable fire
I pulled on trouble's braids
Verse 5
B
The creek was swollen by daybreak
And I could just barely see
F#
B
And I floated downstream
on an old dead tree
And I pulled on trouble's braids
I pulled on trouble's braids
Outro 1
I pulled on trouble's braids
B
E
B
E
B
C#m
B
F#
B
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsB F# C#m Bm E
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