Chords for Patterson Hood Performs "Depression Era" from THAT EVENING SUN

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_ _ _ _ _ I first became involved in the film That Evening Sun through my friendship [F] with Ray McKinnon.
_ Ray had made a film a few years ago called The [Bb] Accountant, a short [Fm] film that actually
ended up [Am] winning the Academy Award for Best Short Film.
[Bb] _ It's my favorite short film [F] I've ever seen.
I like it better than most features I can think [Am] of.
_ _ [F] I became kind of obsessed with it when I first [Dm] saw the movie and ended up _
[Bb] writing a
song inspired [Am] by that movie called Sinkhole.
Over [Bbm] the course of [F] the next couple of years, I became friends with Ray.
He first approached me about That Evening Sun _ to tell me about the screenplay a friend
[Bbm] of his named Scott Teams [Dm] had written [F] and that he wanted [Bb] to be involved in making it [F] into a movie.
I was very excited to see the movie and they sent me a copy of the screenplay and [Bb] it was absolutely stunning.
[F] _ The title came from a [Bb] Jimmy Rogers song called Blue Yodel Number [Am] Three that has the line
I hate to see [F] the evening sun go down. _ _
[A] I kept really [F] thinking about the old man in the movie, the character that Hal Holbrook plays.
He's around the age of my grandparents [Dm] if they were still alive and my great uncle.
[Bb] I _ [Dm] felt like I kind of intimately knew him a little bit.
Our band was [F] touring in Europe and we were staying at a hotel in Oslo, Norway when this
song hit me.
I borrowed some stationery from the hotel and wrote the song down in the lobby of the hotel.
_ _ As soon as I got home, I recorded it on my computer and it's actually the version that
we ended up using in the movie.
[Bb] Fortunately, [D] Ray and Scott liked what I did [Dm] and decided to use it in the [G] film.
[F] I'm really honored to be part of such an [Fm] amazing film.
So I guess I'll [N] do the song for you now.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Cornbread and [G] buttermilk, better clean your plate.
_ [Am] He lived through the Great [C] War and came back to his home state.
[Am] Married his young [C] sweetheart, never would complain.
[Am] The world, it keeps on changing, [C] but he ain't never changed.
[G] Depression era.
_ _ _ [C] Live to tell the tale, depression era. _ _ _
_ He don't [F] ever fail. _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ The boy you called him daddy has grown in different ways.
The [Am] things that made him [G] happy have long since gone away.
Depression era.
_ _ [C] Caked in red clay mud, depression era. _ _ _ _ _
Survivals in [Dm] his blood, _ _ _ _
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_ [F] _ _ _ _ biscuits and gravy, eggs all the way.
_ Fought in the Navy and made it back this way. _
Loved his beautiful wife, now he's full of hurt. _
Methodist all his life, but he don't go to church.
[C] Depression era.
_ _ Some things never fade, he's depression era. _ _ _ _
In the modern [Dm] age, _ _ _ _ _ in the modern age. _
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_ He [Am] always rose above [G] it, but nothing's as it [F] seems.
Anger has its pitfalls, like living in your dreams.
His dreams, they are a fate, he'll make a final stand.
He'd never hit a lady, [C] but he just might kill a man.
Depression era.
_ _ If to tell the tale, he's depression era.
_ _ _ _ [F] He don't ever fail. _ _ _ _ _
He don't ever fail. _ _ _ _ _
He don't ever fail. _ _ _
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