Chords for Shades of Gray

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We met in Oklahoma, _ [F] a little after three, [C] _ Randy and his brother Bob, my old _ [D]
GMC.
_ _ _ _ Had some moonshine whiskey [F] and some of Bob's home grown, _ [C] so messed up we didn't know, but we were drunk as [D] stone. _
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_ _ Randy was a sad, [F] sad, tall, kinda frail, [C] _
Bob was a raving maniac, _ crazier [D] than hell. _ _ _ _
Been kicked out of high school [F] several years ago, [C] _ pushing over port-a-cans and a 4H [D] _ rodeo.
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_ Since then they done their little [F] dance right outside the law, [C] popped once in Oklahoma, _ _ once in [D] Arkansas.
_ _ _ _ Never know what possessed me [F] to want to tag along, [C] cause I was raised a Christian and I knew right [D] from _ wrong.
_ _ [F] _ _ [C] Ride around black [D] and _ _ white, _
[F] _ _ [C] cross the line you're gonna [D]
pay.
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[C] In the dawn before [D] the _ _ light, _ [Bb] _ _ [C] liver dyed by shades [D] of gray. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Still two charlie heifers, [F] ran to Sweetheart's Pawn, [C] sold a mad livestock show outside [G] of [D] Wichita.
_ We _ _ got nine hundred dollars, [F] never did suspect, _ [C] the world I heard we'd be in, once we [G] cast the [D] check.
_ _ _ That night we heard the story [F] on the local _ radio, _ [C] made our plans that very night to go to [D] Mexico. _ _
_ _ _ _ Swear we would have made it if [F] it wasn't for the shine, [C] I got sick about the time we crossed that Kansas [Dm] _ line. _ _ _
[F] _ _ [C] Ride around [Dm] black and white, _ _ _ [F] _ _
[C] cross the line you're [G] gonna [Dm] pay. _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ [C] In the dawn [Dm] before the _ _ light, _ [Bb] _
_ [C] liver dyed by [Em] shades of [Dm] gray. _
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_ _ _ I was laying in the bar ditch, [F] praying I would die, [C] when a light came on above us and a voice called from [A] the [D] sky.
_ A _ [A] half a dozen of my cars [F] came screeching to a halt, [C] _ Bobby started screaming, _ it was all [D] my fault.
_ _ There were many dogs and [F] helicopters buzzing all around, [C] had the brothers on the pickup, hood me down on [D] the ground. _ _ _ _
Bob flew out of pieces, _ [F] Randy he held tight, [C] when a black man in a suit and tie stepped down [Em] into [D] the light. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ He told his men, turn us [F] loose, and they put down their guns, [C] he said these are just some sorry kids, they [D] ain't the ones.
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[C] Ride around black [D] and _ _ white, _ [F] _ _ [C] cross the line you're gonna [D] pay.
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_ In [C] the dawn before [A] the _ _ [D] light, _ _ [Bb] _ [C] liver dyed by shades [D] of gray. _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ [D] They left us on the road, sat [F] down hearted and alone, [C] Randy got behind the wheel, said boys I'm [D] going home. _
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_ Turned around and faced our [F] fate hungover, but alive [C] on that morning in late April, _ Oklahoma [Em] [D] 95.
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[C] Ride around [D] black and _ white, _ _ [F] _ _ [C] cross the line you're [D] gonna [Dm] pay.
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[C] In the dawn before [D] the _ _ _ light, [Bb] _ _ [C] liver dyed by shades [D] of gray. _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ Liver [C] dyed by [G] shades of [D]
gray.
_ _ _ _ [Bb] _ [C] Liver dyed by shades [D] of gray. _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ Thank you.
_ _ _ _ [N] Love you brother, thank you man.
Thank you for believing in what we do. _ _
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