Chords for James McMurtry - Down Across the Delaware

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_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [E] The bills are paid but it makes no [A] difference
[E] To the gods that [B] seem to rule our [A] [E] home
The heat's shut [B] off for no known [A] reason
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This old building's [B] got a mind [A] of its own
[E] I _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ [E] _ _
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can tell your footsteps on [B] the stairs from [A] three flights [E] up
And I know the jingling of your keys
[A] _ [E] You won't hear a no when you don't look [A] back and you can't slow [E] down
These days you don't have [B] much to say to [A] me
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In another town [B] what would fetch a [A] good living?
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_ Here's barely [B] hand to [A] mouth
[E] So I'm going out and get a [B] U-Haul [A] trailer
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And drag it [B] down to [A] Turnpike South
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Where the [E] Garden State gives [A] way [B] to the real world
And [E] falls away in [A] the [B] rearview mirror
We'll mend [E] our wounds and [A] wait out the [B] winter _
[E] Down across the Delaware
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get along in a manner of [A] speaking
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We rarely have to speak at [A] all
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Small talk over takeout [A] pizza
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Silently passing in the hall _ _
Posted notes, [B] _ _ [A] _ _ [E]
opposite [A] shifts
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Once in a blue moon we'll wake [A] up in the same room
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Thankful for these [A] thy many gifts
[E] We run by night, [A] we live it and [B] breathe it
With the best [E] of the [A] best and I just [B] don't care
Gonna mend my [E] wounds and [A] wait [B] out the winter _
[E] Down across [C#m] the [B] Delaware
_ [F#m] [E] And I'll see [A] you in [B] the spring
When [E] the chill [A] don't cut so [B] deep
_ [E] I'll be back [A]
around
To [E] give this [A] town another crack at [B] me
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[E] I heard a voice today I [A] swore I knew
[E] From somewhere down in the Southern [A] Sticks
[E] I turned around to see some [A] ragged stranger
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But men change on the uptown [A] six
[E] And are froze like a stone
[A] _ _ Could [E] I ever get that low?
_ [A] Turn [E] my face to the window
_ _ [A] _ _ [E] There by the grace of [A] God I go
_ [E] Where the Garden State gives way [B] to the real world
[E] And falls away [A] in the [B] rear view mirror
We'll mend [E] our wounds [A] and wait [B] out the winter
[E] Down across the Delaware
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