Wood Chipper Chords by John Hiatt

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_ _ _ Well I'm from the Midwest, I know enough [B] to cut a path around a wood chipper.
[Bm] _ _ And be careful of any conversation, a man [F#] starts by calling you skipper.
[F#m] _ Cause [G] there ain't no ocean round [F#m] here, [E] though a lot of little lakes [G] where you could disappear.
[Bm] I wonder what the fish [F#] are biting on today [B] now, Jimmy. _
[F#] She _ _ [Bm] _ told me not to follow her down here, said he was crazy about her.
_ I guess I didn't know what that meant, just knew I couldn't [F#m] do without [F#] her.
_ Then [G] I seen him through the window's hatch, he [E] had a 44 pistol [G] in the back of his hatch.
[B] He was holding some kind of pretty [F#] note paper in her [Bm] breast pocket.
_ _ _ _ [G] What's time people gonna do [A] to break up a happy [Bm] home? _
_ _ _ _ [G] What's time people gonna do [A] to break up a happy [Bm] _ _ _
_ _ home?
Well I got a pick in the temporary [D] love shack [Bm] in the middle of no place.
_ _ They were planning on using that catch to get [F#] away, bald face.
_ Now [Gm] how [G] long did they think they could stay?
The [E] trippers and the Marshalls [G] surely on their way.
[B] I ran through the [F#] yard and I banged my knee on his [Bm] wood chipper.
_ _ [F#m] Well [B] I'm screaming like a baby, she appeared at [Bm] the window, he opened the door.
_ _ [F#] _ And [Bm] when I looked up he said, skipper, what [F#] are you doing here for?
_ A [G] one bullet to the head.
_ [E] Before I hit the [G] ground, well I was dead.
I'm just telling [Bm] you this [F#] before you go fishing [Bm] now, Jimmy.
_ _ _ What's [G] time people gonna do [A] to break up a happy [Bm] home? _
_ _ _ What's [G] time people gonna do [A] to break up a happy [Bm] home? _
_ _ _ What's [G] time people gonna do [A] to break up a happy [Bm] home? _
_ _ _ What's [G] time people gonna do [A] to break up a happy [Bm] home? _
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_ [F#m] _ _ _ [B] Never found [Bm] my body but they killed him in a shootout five miles down [F#] the road.
[D] They found out [Bm] no paper in her breast pocket, [F#] thought it was something written in coal.
_ [F#m] Thought [G] it was part of a letter set.
_ _ [Em] I got her for Christmas [G] ten years ago I bet.
[Bm] She used to just use [F#] the paper for [E] her goosh [Bm] _ _
release.
_ I did [G] red _ eggs, [A] _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ hamburger meats, _ _ _ [G] bread, _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ [Bm] sponges, _ _ _ ice [G] cream, _ toilet [A] paper, tiny [Bm] bowl, _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] pickles, _ _
[A] You'll get snack cakes.
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