Chords for Outlaw Country - "I'd Have Been Out Of Jail" [Live from Austin, TX]

[D] You gonna do the next one?
Yeah, if I can see it.
That's just this song here.
It's the truth.
And what it is about is not what it says. _
Yeah, OK. _ _ _ _
But you have to wait to the end to see that.
_ You got to be brilliant.
_ _ _ People that don't understand this shouldn't be here. _ _
You think any of them are going to not like it?
_ That's what you call setting it up.
_ Let's write that. _
_ _ I sat at a bar having a [G] beer trying [A] to hold down the [D] stew.
When a stranger walked in, stood there beside me
[G] and [A] plopped down there [D] like a fool. _ _ _
Well, he started drinking, then he
started talking [G] about things that were [A] wrong [D] in his life.
_ [G] The more that I heard, [D] the more I believed.
The thing that was [A] wrong, [D] it wasn't why.
_ _ _ _ _
It's just getting started.
_ I'll tell you this was true.
_ _ He said, you talk about beauty.
When we first met, [G] she was [A] all that a man could [D] desire.
_ Talk about love.
One night with her would set [G] your very [A] soul afire.
[D] _ _ But love's little flame is out of control,
[G] about three [A] feet high [D] from behind. _ _ _
You don't get it? _ _ _ _
See, he's a good laugher. _ _
A little slow, but he's a good laugher. _ _ _
_ [G] Since we've been married, [D] I've come
to believe that [A] love is for the dumb and the [D] blind.
No offense.
_ Because you talk about ugly, when she gets mad,
[G] she goes [A] from [D] jekyll to hyde.
_ I see.
She, I didn't get that one myself.
_ _ _ She grits her teeth, [G] and then her eyes roll back,
[A] pivot from [D] side to side.
_ She completely rewrites the whole English language,
[G] four [A] letters descriptive, [D] loud.
_ _ _ [G] Now, I can't outthink her, [D] but I can show out drink her.
And that's what I'm [A] doing here now.
[D] _ _ [G] I've spent seven years [D] with the wrong woman,
[G] seven and going on eight.
[D] _ She [G] spent seven years [D] nagging and eating.
_ I'm [A] overwrought, and she's overweight. _ _ _ _
You're going for all of it, eh? _ _ _
Where am I at? _ _
When I'm down here like this, that
means I forgot the words and got to find them.
_ _ I'm going to just put you shit in the stick.
_ Now, look here.
[D] She completely rewrites the whole English.
That's wrong line.
_ _ _ I'm overwrought, and she's [A] overweight, yeah.
_ [G] If I try leaving, [D] she has me arrested.
That's [G] her own sweet time getting [D] me out.
_ If [G] she ain't number one, [D] she's in the top two.
The [A] things that I could live [D] without.
_ [G] Men commit murder [D] and all kinds of mayhem.
[G] In a few years, they're back on [D] the streets.
_ [G] Highway [A] robbery [D] and white-collar crime,
and they laugh at the system [A] they lead.
_ [G] Sometimes I'm tempted, [D] sometimes I'm ashamed [G] of the things
that the law will [D] allow.
_ [G] I could have killed her [D] when I first met her,
and [A] I'd have been out of jail [D] by now.
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_ _ _ Now I only have to do three songs. _ _ _ _ _