Chords for Dave Alvin - "Abilene" [Live from Austin, TX]

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_ [Cm] _ _ [Ab] _ _ [Fm] _ [Eb] This Greyhound bus [Bb] leaving the great northwest, _ [Eb] taking her tonight back down [Bb] south to Texas.
[Eb] _
[Ab] She's been dancing on tables, the parent and baby, just get by and maybe [Bb] stay clean. _
[Cm] Have a lady, [Eb] have a lady, _ _ _ [Fm] _
[Eb] have a lady, [Cm] have a lady.
[Ab] _ _ [Fm] _
[Eb] But her daddy gets drunk, _ then he'd hit [Bb] her hard, _ and her [Eb] mama'd lie in bed high off [Bb] pills and talking to God. _
[Ab] But like her beautiful tattoos, these old memories she can't lose, since she ran away in 15. _
Have a [Cm] lady, have a [Eb] lady, _ [Ab] there's a [Fm] town ahead [Eb] there you'd never [Cm] see.
_ [Ab] Maybe it's [Fm] better if you [Ab] get off [Fm] there and try [Ab] to forget [Fm] _
everything.
Have a lady, [Cm] _ _ _ [Ab] _
_ [Fm] _ [Eb] staring out the window at [Bb] the long cold night.
[Eb] Ahead on the horizon is another [Bb] string of bright lights.
[Ab] _ Dreaming of a man she's gonna meet, in a bar on Austin street.
Maybe this one won't [Bb] be so mean.
[Cm] Have a lady, [Eb] have a lady, [Ab] _
[Fm] there's a town ahead [Eb] there you'd [Cm] never see.
_ [Ab]
Maybe [Fm] it's better if [Ab] you get [Fm] off there and try [Ab] to [Fm] forget everything.
[Cm] Have a lady.
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_ _ _ _ [Eb] In Texas, there's a [Bb] man sitting alone, _ [Eb] thinking of a girl he swore he'd wait [Bb] there for.
_ [Ab] But he's drinking his beer and he's feeling old, remembering every lie he's told, till he changes his [Bb] mind at eight.
_ [Cm] Have a lady, [Eb] have a lady, [Ab] _ [Fm] there's a town [Eb] ahead there [Cm] you'd never see.
[Ab] _ [Fm] Maybe it's better [Ab] if you [Fm] get off there and [Ab] try to [Fm] forget everything.
_ [Cm] _
[Eb] Have a lady.
_ _ [Fm] Oh, [Eb] have a lady, [Cm] have a lady.
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