Lay Low Chords by Gretchen Peters

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[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ It's a good three hours to _ Aberdeen I've read all the magazines and [C] jokes
Are all played out or [G] wearing thin So _ _ _ _ I lie back and I close my eyes
[D] And I let that old sadness [C] rise And I listen to Hello in there [G]
again _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] And riding shotgun [D] all the time [G] That [D] melancholy [Em] ghost of mine
[Am] Plays Jesus to my [Bm] lonely Joan [C] of Arc _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _
Together we go riding through [D] _ the dark _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ I think [D] I need to [C] lay low for a [G] while _
[C] _ _ Stare [G] at the Gulf of [Am] Mexico _ _ [D] for a while _ _
[Em] _ _ _ Take it easy, [C] take it slow for a while _ I _ [A] think [Am] I [D] need to [G] lay low _ _ _ _
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Tonight I'll call to say hello But your phone's just gonna ring
I know [C] I guess some things just cannot be [G] undone
_ _ _ _ So I clutch this guitar to my chest [Bm] And [D] wonder just what I'll have left
[C] When all of this hard traveling's [G] finally done _ _ _ _
[C] Say I'm not who [D] I used to be [G] That [D] ain't exactly [Em] news to me
[Am] That girl has long [G] since [C] cut and grown _ But _ _
[Am] _ baby I am not the [D] only _ _ one
[E] I _
[G] _ _ think [D] I need to [C] lay _ low [G] for a while _
[C] _ _ Stare at the [G] Gulf of [Am] Mexico _ _ [D] for a while _
[Em] _ _ _ Tell them all where [C] they can go for a while I _ [G] think [Am] I [D] need to [G] lay low _ _ _ _
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[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ She travels fast, who goes alone?
[F#] This [D] window cuts you to the bone
These [C] _ truckers sure are flying here [G]
tonight _ _ _ _ _ _ And as for me, I'm getting by
[D]
I still laugh but I can't [C] cry That door is shut [G] and locked up tight
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Days go [D] by like hazy [G] dreams But nights at least I get to sing
[Am] _ Suddenly it's _ [Bm] _
[C] 3am again _ _ [Am] _ And this sadness like a tide that's [D] rolling in
I _ _
[G] _ _ think [D] I need to [C] lay low for [G] a while _ _
[C] _ Stare at [G] the Gulf of [Am] Mexico _ for [D] a while _ _
[Em] _ _ I think I need to let [C] it go for a while I _ _ [G] think [Am] I [D] need to [G] lay low
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[C] _ [Bm] _ think [Am] I [D] need to [G] lay _ low _ _ _ _
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