Chords for Guy Clark - Let Him Roll

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_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [Eb] He is a wino, tried and true.
_ [F] Done about everything he is to do.
[Bb] He worked on freighters, he worked in bars, he worked on farms, he worked [Eb] on cars.
_ _ _ It was white pork that put that look in his eyes, [F]
grown men get when they need to [Fm] cry.
_ [Eb] We [Bb] sat down on the curb to rest, his [Eb] head just fell down on his chest. _ _ _
_ He says every single day it gets just a little bit harder to handle and yet.
_ [Fm] _ _ _ _ [Bb] Then he lost the thread and his mind got cluttered and the words [Ab] just rolled off down the [Eb] gutter. _ _ _
Well he was elevator man in a cheap hotel, in exchange for the rent [Gb] on a one room [Eb]
cell.
But he's [Bb] old, years [Gb] beyond his time, no thanks [Cm] to the world and the white pork [Eb] wine.
_ _ _ So he [Bb] says son, he [Eb] always called me son.
He said life [Gb] for you has just begun.
[Bb] And then he told me the story that I'd heard before, how he fell in [Eb] love with a Dallas whore.
_ _ _ Well he could cut through the years to the very night _ _
[Bb] that it [Fm] ended in a whorehouse fight.
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She turned his last proposal down [Ab]
in favor [Eb] of being a girl about town. _
_ Now it's been 17 years right in line _ and [E] he ain't been straight [F] none of the time.
_ [Bb] It's too many days of fighting the weather and too many nights [Eb] not being together. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Bb] So he [Eb] died.
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When they went through his personal effects, _ _ [Ab]
in among the stubs from the welfare checks
was [Bb] a crumbling picture of a girl in a door _ and an [Db] address in Dallas and nothing more.
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_ And the welfare people provided the priest and a couple from the mission down [Ab] the street.
_ Sing [Bb] Amazing Grace.
No one cried except [Ab] some lady in black [Eb] way off to the side.
_ _ _ We all left and she's standing there, _ [Ab] black veil covering her silver hair. _
[Bb] Old one-eyed John said her [Bbm] name was Alice. _
[Ab] She used to be a [Eb] whore in Dallas. _ _
So let him roll. _ _
_ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ Lord let him roll.
_ [Bb] I bet he's gone to Dallas, rest his [Eb] soul. _ _ _
[Bb] _ Just let [Eb] him roll. _
_ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ Lord let him roll.
_ They [Bb] always said that [Bbm] heaven _ was [Ab] just a [Eb]
Dallas whore.
Just let him roll. _
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_ _ _ _ [Bb] I bet he's gone to Dallas, rest his [Eb] soul. _ _
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