Chords for David Allan Coe at Gilley's EVEN MORE July 3, '82 Crying My Heart & Now I Lay Me Down To Cheat

_ _ Oh somewhere the music playing _ soft and [D] low _
_ _ _ Any stranger holds the one that I [G] love so
I _ _ was blind I could not see
That [C] she [G] meant the world [C] to me
_ [D] And like a fool I stood and watched [G] her go _
_ _ Now I'm crying my heart out [D] _ over you
_ _ _ _ Those blue eyes how they smile at someone [G] _ _ [Dm]
new
[G] _ _ Ever since you went away I [C] die a little more
_ _ Cause [D] I'm crying _ my heart out [G] over you
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ I recorded that song about ten years ago
And everybody laughed at me and said it wasn't no [Em] good _
_ [G] I guess Ricky [Em] said I'm never full of shit
[G] _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [B] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Each night I climb the stairs up to my [D] room _
_ _ _ _ But nobody _ meets me in [G] my room
I _ _ see your picture on the wall
Hear [C] your footsteps [D] _
[C] down the hall
[D] And I'm _ crying my heart out [G] over _ you
_ Yes _ I'm crying _ _ _ _ _ [C#] [D] over you
_ _ _ _ _ Those blue eyes how they smile [E] at someone [G] new
_ _ _ _ Ever since you went away I [C] die a little more
_ _ _ Cause [D] I'm crying my _ _ [G] heart out over you
_ _ _ [D] Yes I'm _ crying my heart out over _ [Dm]
you
[G] _ _ _ Now I lay me down to cheat _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ on the [A] woman I [G] love so _
_ _ _ _ If I die between [A] these sheets
[Am] _ _ _ _ [D]
I pray to [A] God she'll [G] never love me
She _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ was the best thing in his life _
[A] _ Why [Dm] she worshipped the ground that he walked [G] on
She _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _
waited up for him at night and worried _ _ _
[Am] _ _ _ [D] Till he was [G] safely home _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [A] She [Em] always believed his [A] stories about working [Bm] overtime _ _ _ _
[Am] And in twenty years beside him
[D] She'd never crossed [A] her mind
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ Ah but it crossed [G] his early _ _ _ [Am] _
last summer
_ [A] _ _ [G] In the person of a neighbor that she still calls her friend
He _ _ _ got to drinking a little bit too much one night in the [A] spring
And he gave in
_ _ [G] _ And now he wishes he could stop
But there's no easy [A] way
_ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _ _
So he just lays down beside his lover and [D] silently [A] he prays
_ [D] _ Now I lay [G] me down to [C] cheat _ _ _ [D] _
_ on the woman I [G] love so _
If _ _ _ I die between [A] these sheets
[Am] _ I _ [D] _
_ pray to God she'll [G] never love me
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] In his heart and soul he knew that he was [Bm] going to die
_ _ [E] _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Ah but forbidden fruit is sweet _ _ _
[B] _ Why it's [E] even sweet enough to sometimes [A] make a man risk it all again _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ He's given up on [C#m] looking for a way to fight the feeling
_ _ [B]
He just prays his simple prayer and hopes [E] it makes it past the motel ceiling
_ _ _ Now I lay me down [D] to cheat _ on _ _ _ the woman I [A] love so
If _ _ _ I die [Bm] between these _ sheets
_ [E] _
I pray to God [A] she'll never know _ _ _ _ _ _ _