Chords for Pierce Pettis - State of Grace

[C] I guess it suggests [F] grace.
_ _ Well, I wash my [C] _ hands, and I take my [F] place.
_ _ I bow my [C] head, _ _ [F] and I clean my plate. _ _
[C] I think ahead, _ _ _ [F] and I talk [Bb] this way,
_ _ [F] for I [C] was _ raised _ in a [F] state of grace.
_ _ [C] _
_ [Cm] The state in question is the state of Alabama, which [C] is where I was raised.
_ _ A place [F] I guess I probably spent most of my life trying to get [Gm] away from,
only to find [F] myself moving back there [C] just a few years ago.
_ _ _ _ It's kind of interesting, you know, [F] for me, a state of [C] grace, as I've discovered,
is not necessarily a state of piety.
It's just a state of where you're not fooling anybody.
[F] _ There's nothing like going back to your old home to [C] _ experience that,
but _ _
_ [F] also maybe to find out [C] who you were all along. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ Well, I [C] always know _ _ _ right [F] where I am,
_ _ _ [C] from the Muscle _ _ _ _ Shoals down to Birmingham.
[F] _ _ _ _ From the [C] rolling _ _ _ [F] hills clear to Mobile Bay,
_ _ where [C] I come from _ is a [F] state of grace.
_ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ So I guess [F] what I'm saying is _ [C] maybe the opposite of what Thomas Wolfe was saying,
and that is _ not only can you go home again,
but _ you might just find you never left the place.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ [Cm] Well, I'm up [C] and down, and [Bb] I'm left [F] and right. _ _
[C] I'm rich and poor, I am black [F] and white.
_ _ And I am not [C] _ alone, _ [F] I am not [Bb] _
[Gm] ashamed
_ [Bb] to make [C] my home in [F] a state _ of _ _ _ [C] grace. _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ I [C] had a call, _ [Bb] I thought it would [C] well
_ _ _ as moonlight _ falls _ over cotton [F] fields. _
[C] _ If I should die _ _
[F] _ before I [Gm] awake,
_ [Bb]
well, I will lay [Cm] me down in a state _ [F] of grace.
I'll wash [C] my _ hands [F] and pick my plates,
_ _ and bow [C] my head _ like Queen [F] Mary [C] did.
_ I'll make it like _ _
[F] the chocolate's way, _ _
for I was [C] _ _ raised in [Bb] a state [F] of grace. _ _
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