Chords for Mr Mud & Mr Gold+ Rex's Blues Justin Townes Earle

[Bm] [N] I think it's time we do some [E] Towns Van Zant numbers.
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_ _ _ _ [N] _ No, we're not going to play any Steve Earle songs.
We're going to play some Towns [E] Van Zant songs.
I worked _ [D] in_
Not that I have anything against my father or [Ab] his songs.
I love my father and I love his song.
But if you want to hear [Eb] somebody play them, you should buy a ticket to one of his [Cm] shows. _ _
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Um_
Towns Van Zant was the greatest songwriter that ever lived, period. _
_ Period [Gm] stopped _ in_ Exclamation point.
Exclamation point. _ _ _ _
And so I'm [Eb] going to play you two songs, my [Cm] two favorites of his.
The first one is called Mr.
Mud and Mr.
Gold.
It's the story of a game of five card stud told from the [Ab] point of view of a narrator
and the [Gm] occasional high card.
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[Fm] Mr.
Mud [Gm] _ _ _ _ _
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[Fm] _ _ _ _ [Gm] and Mr.
Gold. _
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[Fm] _ _ _ [Gm] Mr. _ _ _
[Cm] _ _ Mud [Eb] _ _ _ _
[Fm] _ _ and [Gm] Mr. _ _
[Cm] Gold.
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Before I [G] got sober, that was like my [Ab] parlor trick.
[Gm] I used to_
[B] People would come to parties [E] and they'd feed me all these drugs and [Ab] alcohol and stuff
and then at the end of the night they'd see if I could still play that [C] song.
[F] _ _ And [Abm] the first time I ever remember, and mind [F] you remember, _ forgetting the lyrics was I had two years clean. _
[E] So, that's the way it goes I [Gm] guess.
[Bb] Not the drug [Dm] pill.
_ _ Towns Van Zant predicted his death. _
[F] _ He said in an interview that he would die on New [Dm] Year's Day. _
And he did.
_ [F] _ _ And, um, _ I don't know, he was a strange man.
_ I think this song that I'm getting ready to play, [Dm] he kind of sent it out there like it was a [Bb] eulogy of sorts.
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[F] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ a blue _
[Bb] [F] windpipe, _ she'll lead you [Gm] down the [F] misery
_ Leave you alone on [Bb]
[F] time to go off alone and do [Bb] what you so [F] can be _ _ _ _ _
If I had a nickel [Bb] I'd find [F] a gang
If I won a dollar [Bb] I'd [F] make it rain
If there ain't an ocean I'd drink it dry
And lay me down _ _ dissatisfied
This _ _ _ _ place is what we call supply
Eyes to [Gm] laugh and [F] lips to cry
A restless [Bb] tongue to [F] classify
_ Born to grow and grown to die
_ _ _ _ So you tell my baby [Gm] I said so [F] long
Tell my brother [Bb] to watch [F] his own
Tell my friend [Bb] to [F] watch his own
And you tell my [Bb] friends to [F] warn me not
Cause _ _ _ I'm chained [C] upon [Gm] the [F] face of time
[Bb] Feeling _ _ [Cm] foolish, [F] right?
Ain't no [Bb] darkness, something [F] shines
I'm bound to leave [Gm] this [C] dark [F] behind _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ A rising [Bb] blue windpipe, [F] _ _
she'll lead you [Bb] down through [F] misery
Leave you alone [Gm] on time [F] to go off alone and do [Bb] what you so [F] can be _ _
_ _ How low and [Cm] low this [Gm] low can [F] be _ _ _ _ _
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