Chords for Robert Earl Keen - Shades of Gray (eTown webisode #855)

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_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ In a word, passion.
_ I would say that if you are passionate about whatever you're doing, no matter what you're
doing, _ you'll stick with it.
If you don't have _ that real heart for it and stuff, most people fall out.
Believe [F] me, I say that knowing [C] a lot of people [Dm] are tremendously talented in the [F] music business
and they just [C] _
can't [Dm] seem to find their way or they shoot themselves in the foot or [Cm] something.
_ [Dm] _ My thing [D] was, _ this is it.
This is what I want to do. _ _ _ _
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_ [D] We met in [F] Oklahoma, a little after three, [C] right near the bar of my old [D] GMC.
That's moonshine [F] whiskey, some are Bob's, some are Gronk's.
We [C] were so messed up, we didn't know.
We were drunk [Dm] as stuff.
_ [D] That was a sad, [F] sad time.
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[F] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ _ [Dm] _ I was a little _
[F] _ _ bit drunk, _ [C] _ _ _
but [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] I was a little bit crazy.
I [C] was a little bit crazy.
I was a little bit crazy.
[Dm] I was a little bit crazy.
I was a little bit crazy.
I was a little bit crazy.
I was a little bit crazy.
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I was really cranky, crazy.
Drive around [F] like a _ wankructforcement.
[C] _
Cross the line, you're [Dm] going to pay.
_ [F] _
[C] Hand down [A] for the life.
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[C] Live and die by [Dm] shades of gray.
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[Dm] We stole these Charlie [F] heifers from Randy's sweet arts bars.
[C] Stole them up livestock sale outside of [Dm] Wichita.
We got $900 [F] and never did suspect.
[C] The world of her weed be in once we [Dm] cashed the check.
The next day we heard the [C] story on the local [F] radio
[C] and made our plans that very night to go [Dm] to Mexico.
I swear we would have made [F] it if it wasn't for the shine.
[C] I got sick about the time we crossed [Dm] our Kansas line.
_ [Bb] _ Riding [F] around black with wine,
_ [C] _ _ crossing black [Dm] and gonna bang.
_ _ [F] _ [C] Here's to Uncle [Dm] _ _ Daly.
[Bb] Let [C] me die by a [Dm] stage of grey.
Alright.
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_ [Dm] _ _ _ I was lying in the [D] void [F] ditch,
praying I would die [C] when the light come on above us.
A voice called [Dm] from the sky.
I had a dozen of my [F] cars,
came screaming to a halt.
[C] Big Aunt Bobbie started screaming,
It was [D] all my fault.
[Dm] There were many dogs in a [F] helicopter,
just fussing all around.
[C] I had to buzz on and pick up a few [Dm] down on the ground.
And Bob took all the pieces,
[F] ran down the [C] sides.
Then a black man in a suit and tie
stepped into [Dm] the light.
He told his men to turn us [F] loose,
and they put down their [C] guns.
He said, these are just some sorry kids.
They ain't [Dm] the ones. _ _
[Bb] _ Riding around black with [F] wine, _ _
[C] _ crossing black and [Dm] gonna bang. _ _
[F] In [C] the dawn before [A] the _ _ [Bb] light.
Let [C] me die by a [Dm] stage of grey. _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ [Dm] _ _
_ They left us by the [F] roadside,
downhearted and alone.
[C] The man behind the wheel said,
Boys, I'm [Dm] going home.
We turned around and faced our [F] fate,
hungover but alive.
[C] That morning in late April,
Oklahoma in [Dm] 95.
_ _ _ [Bb] _ Riding around [F] black with wine,
_ [C] _ crossing black and [Dm] gonna bang.
_ [F] _ [C] In the dawn [Dm] before the _ light.
[Bb] _ [C] Let me die by a [Dm] stage of grey.
_ _ [Bb] _ [C] Let me die by a [Dm] stage of grey.
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