Chords for Steve Earle - Tom Ames' Prayer (Live @ The Bluebird Café)

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Steve Earle - Tom Ames' Prayer (Live @ The Bluebird Café) chords
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Everyone in Nacogdoches knew Tom Haines had come to some [D] bad end.
[Em] With a share of picardons, [D] ten chickens and such by the time he was [G] ten.
And one day his daddy took a ten dollar bill and tucked it in his hand.
[D] He said, [Em] I can tell you're headed for trouble son, and your [G] mama wouldn't understand.
So he took that [D] money and his brothers [G] obeyed and left for a lot of weird [D] things.
[Em] Fell in with a crowd in some [G] border town and they took to robbing banks.
[D] [G]
Outside the law you look a run out fast and the fears came with.
[Em] He was trapped in an alley in [G] Abilene with all the poor shill spent.
And he realized praying was the only thing that he had never [D] tried.
[Em] Well he wasn't sure that he knew quite how [G] but he looked up to the sky.
He said you don't owe me nothing and as far as I know Lord I don't owe nothing [D] to you.
Well I [Em] ain't asking for a miracle Lord, just [G] a little bit of luck it do.
And you know I ain't never prayed before but it always seemed to [E] me.
[Em] That praying's the same as begging Lord and I don't [G] take no charity.
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[G] [D] [Em]
[G] Every right now Lord when I'm back through the wall I can't help but recall.
[Em] How they nearly hung me for stealing a horse and [E] forced me to lock and saw.
And Judge Parker said guilty and the gavel came down just like a [D] cannon shot.
[Em] And I went away quietly and [G] I began to file a plot.
Well I sent the preacher down to my cell and said the Lord is [D] your only hope.
[Em] And he's the only [G] friend that you're gonna have when you hit the end of Parker's rope.
I guess I could have kept on preaching at Christmas but it turned it back [D] on me.
[Em] And I put a homemade blade to that golden crow [G] nasty deputy called the King.
[D] [Em]
[G]
[D] [G]
And that ain't the first close call I ever had as I'm sure you already [E] know.
I've [Em] had some help from you [G] Lord and the devil himself has been strictly touching gun.
Yeah but who in the hell am I talking to?
Ain't no one here but [E] me.
And [Em] then he cocked both his pistols and he spit in the [G] dirt and he walked out in that street.
[E] [N]
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1321
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_ _ _ _ _ Everyone in Nacogdoches knew Tom Haines had come to some [D] bad end.
[Em] With a share of picardons, [D] ten chickens and such by the time he was [G] ten.
And one day his daddy took a ten dollar bill and tucked it in his hand.
[D] He said, [Em] I can tell you're headed for trouble son, and your [G] mama wouldn't understand.
So he took that [D] money and his brothers [G] obeyed and left for a lot of weird [D] things.
[Em] Fell in with a crowd in some [G] border town and they took to robbing banks. _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Outside the law you look a run out fast and the fears came with.
[Em] He was trapped in an alley in [G] Abilene with all the poor shill spent.
And he realized praying was the only thing that he had never [D] tried.
[Em] Well he wasn't sure that he knew quite how [G] but he looked up to the sky.
He said you don't owe me nothing and as far as I know Lord I don't owe nothing [D] to you.
Well I [Em] ain't asking for a miracle Lord, just [G] a little bit of luck it do.
And you know I ain't never prayed before but it always seemed to [E] me.
[Em] That praying's the same as begging Lord and I don't [G] take no charity.
_ [A] _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [Em] _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ Every right now Lord when I'm back through the wall I can't help but recall.
[Em] How they nearly hung me for stealing a horse and [E] forced me to lock and saw.
And Judge Parker said guilty and the gavel came down just like a [D] cannon shot.
[Em] And I went away quietly and [G] I began to file a plot.
Well I sent the preacher down to my cell and said the Lord is [D] your only hope.
[Em] And he's the only [G] friend that you're gonna have when you hit the end of Parker's rope.
I guess I could have kept on preaching at Christmas but it turned it back [D] on me.
[Em] And I put a homemade blade to that golden crow [G] nasty deputy called the King. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [Em] _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ And that ain't the first close call I ever had as I'm sure you already [E] know.
I've [Em] had some help from you [G] Lord and the devil himself has been strictly touching gun.
Yeah but who in the hell am I talking to?
Ain't no one here but [E] me.
And [Em] then he cocked both his pistols and he spit in the [G] dirt and he walked out in that street. _
_ _ [E] _ _ [N] _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

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