Let Him Roll Chords by Guy Clark

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[C] _ Now he's a wino, tried and true, [F] _ done about everything there is to do.
[G] And he worked on freighters, and he worked in [F] bars, and worked on [C] farms, and worked [G] on cars.
[C] _ _ And it was White Fort that put that look in his [G] eye [F] grown men get when they need to cry.
[G] And we sat down on a curb to rest [F] when his head just fell [C] down on his chest.
_ _ _ He says, every single day it gets [F] just a little bit harder to handle.
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_ _ [C] _ [G] and he lost the thread and his mind got cluttered and the [F] words just rolled [C] off
down the gutter. _ _ _
Well, he was elevator man in a cheap [G] hotel, [F] exchange for the rent on a one-room [G] cell,
and he's old, years beyond his time, no [F] thanks to the [C] world and the White Fort wine.
_ _ _ [G] [C] So he says, son, he always called me son, [F] he said life for you had just [C] begun.
And [G] he told me the story that I had heard before, how he [F] fell in love with [C] a Dallas whore.
_ _ _ Well, he could cut through the years to the very night [G]
[F] that it ended in a whorehouse fight,
[G] and she turned his last proposal down [F] in favor [C] of being a girl of about ten.
_ Now it's been 17 years right in [G] line, [F] but he ain't been straight none of the [D] time.
[G] It's too many days of fighting the weather, _ [F] _ too many [C] nights of not being together.
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[C] _ _ So he died.
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[C] _ And when they went through his personal effects, [F] in among the stubs from the welfare [G] checks
was a crumbling picture of a girl and a door, [A] and a [G] dress [C] in Dallas and nothing more. _
_ _ _ The welfare people provided the [G] priest, _ [F] a couple from the mission down the street [G] sang
Amazing Grace, and no one cried [F] except some lady in [C] black way off to the side. _ _
We all left and she's standing there [F] in a black veil covering her silver [G] hair,
and old one-eyed John said her name was Alice, [F] _ and she [C] used to be a whore in Dallas.
_ [G] So let [C] him _ _ throw, _ _ _ [F] _ _ Lord let him roll.
_ [G] _ _ Betty's gone to Dallas, [C] rest assured. _
[G] _ Just let [C] him _ throw, _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ Lord let [Dm] him roll.
[D] _ _ [G] They always said that heaven _ [Dm] was just [C] Dallas for her.
Let him _ throw, _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ Lord [Dm] let him roll.
[D] _ _ [G] _ _ Betty's gone to Dallas, [C] rest assured. _ _
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