Chords for Ragged Old Truck~Billy Joe Shaver

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_ _ _ Early this morning, without any warning, [D] I took a look at [A] myself, good [G] God.
[D] I seen how this married [A]-up life I've been living [B] was trying to choke me [E] to death.
_ _ _ [A] I laid on the bed with my gun to my head and I [D]
nearly about ended [A] it all.
_ _ [E] _ [D] But I come to _ myself just [A]
before I [A#] got chilled and [B] I blowed me [E] some holes [A] in the wall.
_ _ _ I'm thinking about cracking my ragged old [B] truck up [D] and hauling myself into [A]
town.
_ _ _ [D] I'm thinking about raising [A] the dog on too much of [C#m] hell till [B] I die for living [E] all down.
_ _ _ [A] I lay around this place till I'm blue in the face and [D] I may as well be [A] on the ground.
_ [B] _ [D] I'm thinking about cracking [A] my ragged [A#m] old truck up [B] and hauling [E] myself into [A]
town.
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honky-tonk man in a honky [C#]-tonk band [D] with a honky-tonk girl [A] on my arm.
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I may be as ugly [A] as an old mother's real fist, but [B] I'm loaded with the ill-billed [E]
chum.
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it's my life and no wife of mine's gonna tell me [D] I can't go and have me some [A] fun.
_ _ So [D] before that old helper [A] drives her back in [F#] from Waco, [B] you can bet your rear-end I'll [A] be gone.
_ _ _ I'm thinking about cracking my ragged old [B] truck up [D] and hauling myself into [A]
town.
_ _ _ [D] I'm thinking about raising [A] the dog on too much of hell till [B] I die for living _ [E] all down.
_ _ [A] I lay around this place till I'm blue in the face and [D] I may as well be [A] on the ground.
_ _ _ [D] I'm thinking about cracking [A] my ragged old [F#] truck up [B] and hauling myself into [A] town.
_ _ Yeah, [D] I'm thinking about cracking [A] my ragged [F#] old truck up and [B] hauling _ [E] myself into [A] town.
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