Jason Isbell - Speed trap town
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Capo: 2
Tuning: D A D G B E
Isbell plays the song in Drop D tuning, with the guitar capoed up two frets. The same effect can be produced
by playing the song in standard tuning and using a Drop D cutaway capo on the second fret. The song works
perfectly well in standard tuning, except you'd lose the lowest bass note.
This song mixes time signatures.
To notate: 4/4 sections begin with |4:
2/4 sections begin with |2:
[Intro]
|4: D |2: G/B G2 |4: D | D | G/B... G2 |2: G |4: D | D |
[Verse 1]
|D |2: G |4: D |
She said, "It's none of my business but it breaks my heart"
|D |G/B G2 |2: G |4: D |
... Dropped a dozen cheap roses in my shoppin' cart
|D |D |2: G |4: D | D |
... Made it out to the truck without breakin' down
|G/B G2 |2: G |4: D |
Everybody knows you in a speed trap town
[Verse 2]
|D |D |2: G |4: D |
... Well, it's a Thursday night but there's a high school game
|D |G/B G2 |2: G |4: D |
... Sneak a bottle up the bleachers and for----get my name
|D |D |2: G |4: D |
... These 5-A bastards run a shallow cross
|D |G/B G2 |2: G |4: D |
... It's a boy's last dream and a man's first loss
[Chorus 1]
|D |Em7 G/F# |G |D |A
... And it never did oc----cur to me to leave, 'til tonight
|Em7 G/F# |G |D |
.. And there's no one left to ask if I'm all right
|D |Em7 G/F# |G |D |A
... I'll sleep until I'm straight enough to drive, then decide
|Em7 G/F# |G |D |
.. If there's anything that can't be left behind
[Verse 3]
|D |D |2: G |4: D |
.... The doctor said daddy wouldn't make it a year
|D |G/B G2 |2: G |4: D |
... But the holidays are over and he's still here
|D |D |2: G |4: D |
... How long can they keep you in the IC-----U?
|D |G/B G2 |2: G |4: D |
.... Veins through the skin like a faded tat----too
[Verse 4]
|D |D |2: G |4: D |
... Was a tough state trooper 'til a decade back
|D |G/B G2 |2: G |4: D |
... When that girl who wasn't mama caused his heart at----tack
|D |D |2: G |4: D |
... He didn't care about us when he was walkin' a----round
|D |G/B G2 |2: G |4: D |
... Just pullin' women over in a speed trap town
[Chorus 2]
|D |Em7 G/F# |G |D |A
... But it never did oc----cur to me to leave, 'til tonight
|Em7 G/F# |G |D | D |
.. When I realized he'll never be all right
|Em7 G/F# |G |D |A
Sign my name and say my last goodbye, then decide
|Em7 G/F# |G |D |
.. That there's nothin' here that can't be left behind
[Break]
| D ||: C |2: Em7 |4: D | D | C |2: Em7 |4: D | D :||
[Verse 5]
|D |2: G |4: D |
The road got blurry when the sun came up
|D |G/B G2 |2: G |4: D |
... So I slept a couple hours in my pickup truck
|D |D |2: G |4: D |
... Drank a cup of coffee by an Indian mound
|D |G/B G2 |2: G |4: D |
.... Thousand miles away from that speed trap town
|D |G/B G2 |2: G |4: D |
.... Thousand miles away from that speed trap town
D = 000232
G/B = x20x33 (aka: G)
G2 = x00x33 (aka: Gsus2)
G/F# = 2x0033 (this is a walkup)
G = 320033
Em7 = x22033
A = x02220
C = x32010
Charted by Dexex
(Standing on the shoulders of those who charted earlier versions.)