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GIGANTIC THANK YOU TO FISHSTIK!!! He helped a lot figuring out the chords to this absolutely beautiful James McMurtry song! This song appears on McMurtry's 1995 album "Where'd You Hide The Body" and is one of my favorite songs he's ever recorded. FishStik's original notation: | A | represents one bar (four beats) | A - B - C - D | each chord gets one beat Intro: | F# | C#/F | F# | C#/F | Verse: | F# | F# +1 extra beat | C# | C# | C# +1 extra beat | F# | Chorus: | B | C# | F# - F# - B - Bbm | C# | C# | B | C# | back to Intro The placement of the chords might not be 100% but this is the ONLY chord/lyric for this song (which is a damn shame that the tune isn't more well known). Definitely youtube the song for help :D F# C#/F F# C#/F
F#Your mother used to take the cure She kept plastic on the furniture in the living rC#oom You used to tell your friends If you never saw that place again it's be too F#soon
But your college beau didn't seem so bad
You brought him home to Mom and Dad like you're 'sposed to C#do But he wouldn't account for himself And he got along better with the hired help than he did with F#you
BNo big loss, I don't C#suppose F#Brush it away like a fBly off a rose BbmWe're all bound to miss a time or tC#wo Iolanthe
(Intro)
F#Your father always held his ground He never liked you hanging round with the lesser kC#ind He suffered not the weak And he was never loath to speak his twisted miF#nd
He liked to watch an evening pass
Clinking the ice in his bourbon glass while you played your sC#cales With eyes that burned right through He would say he always knew you were bound to fF#ail
BShake it off and let it C#go F#Brush it away till the Blight it shows BbmWe can't help what came befC#ore Iolanthe
Well wBho's that standing tC#here' F#Whatcha been doing laBtely' Your Bbmclothes not long outta stC#yle BYou gave us all quite a sC#care But the yF#ears were hardly wBasted BbmOnly missing for a C#while BDon't sweat the losses, let em C#go F#Toss em all out where the tBall grass grows BbmWe're all bound to get our shaC#re Iolanthe
(Intro) Well who's that standing there' Whatcha been doing lately' Your clothes not long outta style You gave us all quite a scare But the years were hardly wasted Only missing for a while Don't sweat the losses, let em go Toss em all out where the tall grass grows We're all bound to get our share Iolanthe (Intro) x2