Up My Sleeve chords by Jim Lauderdale
Verse 1
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Bm
G
Bm
Set another
G
place at the table
Bm
cause I must be dreaming
G
Sitting by the side of the window,
Bm
your shadow is gleaming
D
I'm rubbing on my eyes
C
but you don't seem to go away
G
I could almost half believe
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G
Bm
that you mean to stay
G
Talking with Freight Car Betty
Bm
about the state of the nation
G
She told me everything she
Bm
knew without hesitation
D
C
Mysterious ways are the order of the day,
we all know it
G
There's a heart up every sleeve,
Bm
G
but who has time to show it?
Bm
Hanging around on the ground,
Am
smiling up my sleeve
Bm
To make a dream get real,
Am
you gotta choose what to believe
C
Everything comes around
Bm
if you know how to wait
Am
Resign yourself
D
to wander hand in hand with
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Bm
G
Bm
fate
G
The stranger from Twentynine Palms
Bm
dims the light of the moon
G
Caresses his sad guitar
Bm
and plays a highway tune
D
Lillies of the morning wake up
C
in the midnight baffle
G
Yearning for that lonesome road
Bm
G
Bm
some hobo traveled
G
Wander through the catacombs
Bm
looking for a heart to believe in
G
Don't seem to find it
Bm
so I reckon that it's not the season
D
Wander through loss
C
till I find a place to take my ease in
G
Where a handful of dark flowers
bloom
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G
Bm
for their own good reason
G
Wisdom is a way of looking at
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the bright side of sadness
G
The prospect of joy in between
Bm
interludes of madness
D
We all know meaning
C
is essentially a relative thing
G
But what you can't exactly say
Bm
G
you can sometimes sing
Bm
Hanging around on the ground
Am
Smiling up my sleeve
Bm
To make a dream get real
Am
Gotta choose what to believe
C
Everything comes around
Bm
And if you know how to wait,
Am
resign yourself to wander hand -in
D
G
Bm
G
-hand with fate
Bm
G
In convincing myself
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I lived the only life I could
G
Blew it bad a time or two,
Bm
and that's understood
D
So I commend my soul
C
to grace and accept defeat
G
As things that matter
Bm
each vanish down a one -way street
G
But here by the window
Bm
I can see your shadow gleaming
G
Or in at the curtain
Bm
the morning sun comes streaming
D
I feel a beat in a place
C
that seemed cold as stone
G
So I guess my heart still has
Bm
G
a life of its own
Bm
Hanging around on the ground
Am
Smiling up my sleeve
Bm
To make a dream get real
Am
Gotta choose what to believe
C
Everything comes around
Bm
If you know how to wait
Am
Resign yourself to wonder
D
Hand in hand with fate
Bm
Hangin' around on the ground,
Am
smilin' up my sleeve
Bm
To make a dream get real,
Am
gotta choose what to believe
C
Everything comes around
Bm
if you know how to wait
Am
Resign yourself to wander
D
G
Bm
G
Bm
hand in hand with fate
G
Sit another place at the table,
Bm
cause I must be dreamin'
Up My Sleeve
Jim Lauderdale
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