Tryin' To Get To Heaven chords by Joan Osborne

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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The air is getting hotter
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There's a rumbling in the skies
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I've been wading through the
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high muddy water
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With the heat rising in my eyes
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Every day your memory grows dimmer
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It doesn't haunt me like it did before
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I've been walking through the
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middle of nowhere
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Trying to get to heaven before
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they close the door

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Verse 2
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When I was in Missouri
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They would not let me be
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I had to leave there in a hurry
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I only saw what they let me see
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You broke a heart that loved you
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Now you can seal up the book
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and not write anymore
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I've been walking that
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lonesome valley
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Trying to get to heaven before
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they close the door

Verse 3
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People on the platforms
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Waiting for the trains
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I can hear their hearts a- beating
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Like pendulums swinging on chains
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I tried to give you everything
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That your heart was longing for
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I'm just going down
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the road feeling bad
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Trying to get to heaven before they close the door

Interlude 1

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Verse 4
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I'm going down the river
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Down to New Orleans
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They tell me everything is gonna be all right
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But I don't know what "all
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right" even means
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I was riding in a buggy
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with Miss Mary- Jane
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Miss Mary- Jane got a house in Baltimore
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I been all around the world, boys
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Now I'm trying to get to heaven before
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they close the door