Chords for George Jones - The Race Is On/ Bartender Blues

_ I don't know what took us long to get down here, but we've been wanting to get on this
This show and get down in this part of the country for a long time of course.
We're almost
Floridian anyhow ourself because we used to live right over Lakeland, and we still do
Got some great friends over there
We're happy to be here now.
I'll tell you what with my state or two or three o'clock in the morning
as long as they'll film it
I _ [Ab] just want to know one thing are you ready? _
[E] _ [Abm] I feel tears welling up pulling deep [Db] inside my heart [Ab] from a big broken _ _ [Bb] rainbow
I've [Eb] never seen
[Ab]
Say you're gonna take a call
[Db] Call, [Ab] call, call
Don't you wager that I'll hide sorrow
[Eb] When I'm nearly rocked down [Ab] and blown
Hey the race is on
Hip hop [Abm] from [Db] the back streets
Party on [Ab] the living side
I fear the holding [Bb] back
The [Eb] trying not to fall
[Ab] My heart's out of the running
I'm [Db] stressed for another [Ab] day
The race is on
It looks like carnage
[Eb] Hey, I'm coming up, [Fm] lose is all
[B] _ [Ab] _ _
_ _ [Db] _ _ [Ab] _
One _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Gm] _
[Ab] _ _ _ _ [Db] _ _
[Ab] _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
_ [Ab] _ _ day I ventured in love
Never [Db] once suspecting what the fire exhaust would
[Ab] Out in the air
Waking up [Bb] each morning
Thinking that [Eb] you'd gone to [Ab] me
Well, that's aching in vain
I fought for the [Db] terrible one
And I hated [Ab] to pay
Somebody new came up
And when I heard her [Eb] I was up in a [Abm] 14th lane Shhh
[Ab] _ _ Heartaches _
[Db] _ are going to [Ab] the inside
My fear of the holding [Bb] back
The trying not to [Eb] fall
[Ab] My heart's out of the running
[Db] I'm stressed for [Ab] another day
The race is on
It looks like carnage
[Eb] Hey, I'm coming up, [Ab] lose is all
[Db] Hey, hey, [Eb] hey
There ain't nothing to lose at [Ab] all
Thank _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [N] _
_ [Gm] _ _ [F] _ _ _
[G] [N] you, bless you
Now I'm just a [Ab] _ [Bbm] bartender
[C] [Db] And I don't mind _ [Bbm] work
[Eb] But I don't mind _ _ [Ab] at all
_ [Eb] _ [Db] _ [Eb] [Ab] I see lots of sad faces
_ [Db] Lots of [Bbm] bad cases [Eb] Of folks
With their backs [Ab] to the wall
[Eb] _ _ [Ab] I need four walls around me
[Db] To hold [Bbm] my life
[Eb] To keep me
From going [Ab] on astray
[Eb] I [Fm] _ [Ab] need a honky [Fm]-tonk [Ab] angel
[Db] To hold [Bbm] me tight
[Eb] And help keep me
From slipping [Db] _ [Ab] away _
[Eb] _ _ [Bbm] [Ab] I can light up your smokes
[Db] I can laugh at [Bbm] your jokes
[Eb] I can watch you fall down on [Ab] your knees
[Eb] I _ [Cm] [Ab] can close down this bar
Go [Db] and gas up [Bbm] my old car
[Eb] And I can pack up
All the hardy mail in [Ab] my _
[Eb] [Bbm] purse
[Eb] I [Ab] still need four walls around me
[Db] To hold [Bbm] my wild life
[Eb] To keep me
From [Ab] going lost
[Eb] Maybe _ [Bbm] one of them [Ab] honky-tonk angels
[Db] To hold [Bbm] me tight
Maybe [Eb] one could help little George
To keep from slipping [Ab] away _
[Eb] [Bb] Now _ [Ab] _ _ _
_ _ _ [Db] _ _ _
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
[Ebm] _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ [E] _
_ [Bm] _ [E] [A] the smoke fills the air
In [D] this honky _ [Bm]-tonk hall
And [E] I'm thinking about
Where I'd [A] rather be
[Gb] But _ _ [A] I've burned all
_ And [D] I've slinked
All [Bm] my ships
[E] Now I'm stranded
At the edge of [A] the sea
_ [E]
I [A] still need four walls around _ [D] me
To hold [Bm] my life
_ [E] To keep me
From going for [A] lost tracks _
[E] _ [Ab] I [A] need a honky [Gbm]-tonk angel
[Db] [Bm] To [D] hold [Bm] me tight
And [E] help keep me
From slipping _ [D] away
[Dm] _ _ _ _ _ [Ebm] _
[A] _ Thank you! _ _
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