Chords for Ellis Paul "She Was" She ain't worth the whiskey performed live with introduction. Folk Musician

_ I was writing that song tonight.
So we got in the car, he and I and our [A] mandolin player Jeff.
_ [D] _ _ _ We just [B] went around the circle coming up with things.
He wasn't worth it.
_ _ It just [E] went a little too slow, didn't it?
_ _ [B] We did a bit [Dm] of a wallow.
She ain't worth the rise.
She ain't worth the [Eb] fall.
Wasn't worth the [Abm] sparkle of that.
I said, how about this?
How about she ain't worth the climb?
[Bm] She ain't worth the halt.
_ [G] _ _ _ [D] _ How about she ain't worth the height?
_ _ I really like fall.
_ _ [N] _ _ I said, how about this?
How about she ain't [E] worth the dizzying heights?
_ She ain't worth the fall. _
And he asked me to [G] be quiet for a while.
_ [D] _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ [B] And we drove around for [D] about five miles in _ [Bm] the van.
And I said, how [Fm] about this?
How about she ain't worth the [B] vertigo?
_ [Ab] She ain't worth the fall.
_ [Gb] _
And I said, Slade, you know, I don't believe the word vertigo has ever been used in a country song before.
_ [Bb] I don't believe one syllable too many.
[G] _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Bm] _ _ [Db] We decided we liked it even though [Gb] vertigo and dizzying heights could be insane.
[Gm] _ [Bm] Whatever. _ _
_ I finished our verses [B] and they invited me out of time out.
_ Because it was time for the [G] chorus and they said, well, what are we really trying to say here?
As if the chorus is [Em] some kind of mission statement for the [Ab] entire piece of the music.
[D] We don't get it now.
Here, this is [Db] what we're [G] really saying. _ _ _
And what I said [A] was that the guy is deluding himself [G] that she's worth [A] it every time.
The [B]
problem with falling in love is that it's a risky business and you could get hurt.
_ So this guy is just using hindsight to kind of [E] convince himself that he made a mistake.
[Bm] _
_ So she ain't worth the whiskey, [N] but she was.
[Em] _ _
_ _ And he said, man, that sounds like it's [G] right out of the whiskey box.
Just because, because, because, because.
[D] _ _ [A] _
_ [E] So we decided to make that the [D] chorus and they wanted to name [E] the entire song,
She ain't worth the whiskey, but she was.
And then some pointed out that was getting a little too much way up front.
[G] _ _ So this [D] is called She Was.
_ [A] _ _ [Em] _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ She ain't [G] worth the whiskey, _ [E] she ain't [B] worth the tea.
[E] _ She ain't worth [G] the bar and fight, her restless [B] night, her ghostly [Em] year.
She [G] ain't worth the roses, _ [D] lost among the [A] thorns.
_ _ [Em] _ She ain't worth [G] the words you've waved [Bm] to men that trust [A] but it's torn.
_ _ _ _ [Em] _ She ain't worth [G] the midnight, _ [D] she ain't worth [B] the dawn.
_ [Em] She ain't worth the pedestal [D] that you [B] placed her on.
_ _ [Em]
She ain't worth the hotel sheets [Bm] twisted on the [B] bed.
_ _ [E] She ain't worth your [G] trembling _ or the [D] whispers that [A] you said.
_ [B] _ She [Em] was, _
[C] _ _ [D] in truth you know [B] she was.
[Em] She _ [C] _ _
[G] was, you're fooling [D] yourself [B] because
she was, [E] she was.
Now she ain't worth [G] the mystery, _ [Bm] she ain't [B] worth the risk.
_ [Em]
She ain't [G] worth the medicine _ [D] brushed across [B] your lips.
_ _ [Em] She ain't [G] worth the vertigo, _ [D] she ain't [B] worth the pain.
[Em] She ain't worth [G] surrendering to [D] the drama [A] of it all. _ _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ [C] _ She was, [D] in truth [B] you know she was.
[Em] She was, [C] _ _ _ [D] you're fooling [B] yourself because
she _ was, [Em] _ _
_ [G] _ _ [D] so she was.
[B] She _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
[D] was, _ _ [A] _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
[Bm] _ you know [B] she [Em] was.
She [C] _ _ [G] was, you're [Bm] fooling yourself [B] because she was.
_ [Em]
Now she ain't worth the [G] apologies, _ [D] she ain't worth the right to [B] wrong.
_ _ [Em] _ She [G] ain't worth the melody, [D] she ain't [A] worth the song. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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