North Coast Blues Chords by Peter Case

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_ _ _ _ _ The sun rose on the stockyard [G] walls like I've seen a thousand [D] times before.
_ _ _ The priest came in to talk about [G] mercy, the sergeant [D] nodded by the [A] door.
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I couldn't get to sleep last [G] night from the roar around the stadium. _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] They said if I could have [G] kept myself out of trouble, they'd let me go before the winter
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Tear another page off the calendar, _
[G] that's about as [D] good as it gets. _
There's something here that I'm supposed to do, [G] but they ain't said what [A] it is yet.
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Their kindness is a slight of hand, [G] one gives while the other takes. _ _
And if the fall before your time is up, they say it's just a lucky break.
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_ _ _ They say the south coast is a wicked coast, I [G] came north to find a [D] better life.
_ _ I said goodbye to my only [G] son and spent the last night [A] with my wife.
_ [D] _ Now what I got is what I started with, [G] even that I'm bound to lose.
[D] So if you're here, you [G] better say a prayer, and hope you never get the north [D] coast blues. _ _ _ _ _
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