Chords for Corin Raymond and The Sentimentals - The Law & The Lonesome

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_ _ [Cm] _ _ [Gm] There was a guy who was in the, a friend [A] of mine was in the hospital _ and they were putting
him on, they [B] had him on these really crazy drugs and he was hallucinating on the drugs
and it was the kind of hallucinating where he actually felt like, like he had his children
bringing his favorite music.
He was listening to [N] Jonathan Bird's album, The Law and the Lonesome _ and he, and it was
like, it was the kind of hallucinating where he felt like he was in the songs, like the
songs, like he actually was seeing things in the room that were in the songs as he was
imagining them when they were playing in the room.
And he, yeah, he came up to me and he said, _ he said, did you know there's a car on fire
in The Law and the Lonesome?
I was like, wow.
I just thought that was so [Cm] cool.
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_ _ _ the wrath of the law [G] and the [Eb] lonesome above you, [Bb] _ all those who love [Cm] you behind you, _
_ _ _ storm in your rear view [Eb] and darkness before you, _ [Bb] where will you fly to [Cm] this time? _ _
_ Only Jesus will go [C] down the [Eb] road you're burning.
_ [Bb] You should be turning [Cm] to him. _ _ _
_ _ How will you wait and [Eb] be washed in the water?
[Bb] The river is a dirty [Cm] ass sin. _ _
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_ _ How can she take you [Eb] and make you so lonely?
[Bb] _ Said she was only a [Cm] friend. _ _ _
_ Any fool in his pride [Eb] who's tried to refuse [Bb] her, see you're a human again.
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_ _ Snows like a ghost of [Eb] cocaine on _ [Bb] me.
Shifts, plays, tricks on [Cm] your mind. _ _
_ _ Wind is like razors [Eb] and in only two days [Bb] you've done 200,000 [Cm] white lines. _ _
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You took [Eb] the _ _ long _ _ _ _ _ [Cm] way home. _ _
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[Eb] You took the _ _ _ long _ _ _ _ [Cm] way _ home. _
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_ They blasted the bedrock, [Eb] laid all the blacktop like [Bb] a snake round the shoulders [Cm] of God. _ _
_ _ _ Christ on his hilltop, [Eb] the cop at the truck [Bb] stop, both only doing [C] their job.
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_ _ You got a double [Eb]-crossed repair, now you've [Bb] lost the last friend that you had [Cm] to lose. _ _
_ _ He's in the ambulance, [Eb] _ you're in the cruiser, [Bb] with a fatal case of the soccer [Cm] punch blues.
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way [Cm] home. _ _
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_ [Eb] You took _ _ _ the long _ _ _ _ _ [Cm] way _ home.
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You took [Eb] the _ long _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ Feel the wrath of the law [Eb] and the lonesome above you [Bb] and all those who love you [Cm] behind. _ _
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