Chords for Steve Earle - Tom Ames Prayer - Train A Comin

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Everyone in Nacogdoches knew Tom Mames had come to some [D] bad end
[G] With a sheriff for calling him steaming chicken and such by the time that he was ten
And one day his daddy took a ten dollar bill and he tucked it in his [D] hand
He [Em] said, I could [G] tell you're headed for trouble son, and your mama wouldn't understand
So he took out money in his brother's old bay and left without a word of thanks
Fell in with a crowd in some border town, took to robbing banks
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_ _ _ _ But outside the law you look a run out fast and a few years [D] came and went
[Em] A chili strapped in [C] an alley in [G] Abilene, the dollar before she'll spend
And he realized pain was the only thing that he had [D] never tried
[Em] Well he wasn't [C] sure he knew [G] quite how, but he looked up to the sky
Said you don't owe me nothing and as far as I know Lord don't owe [D] nothing to you
But [Em] I ain't asking for [G] a miracle Lord, a little bit of luck today
And you know I ain't never prayed before, but it always seemed [D] to me
[Em] That praying [G] the same as begging a lot, I don't take no charity
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_ _ _ _ _ _ right now Lord, I'm on my back to the wall, can't help [D] but recall
[Em] Pounding the early [G] home after stealing a horse from Fort St.
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Judge Parker said guilty and the gavel came nash like a [D] cannon [Em] shot
And I went away [C] [G] quietly and I began to file a plot
Well I sent the patron down to him saying listen Lord he's your only [D] hope
He's [Em] the only friend that [G] you're gonna have when you hit the end of Parker's rope
I just secured a guitar, praising the Christmas, but it turned its [D] back on me
I [Em] put a homemade blade to that [G] gold rope and that's the debit of all the keys Hey! _ _
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_ _ _ _ Yeah it ain't the first close call I ever had in a few years I [D] really know
I [Em] had some help from you [C] Lord, but the [G] devil himself's been stricken to turn me go
Yeah but who in the hell am I talking to, there ain't no one here but [D] me
[Em] And then the cop pulled his [C] pistols and he spit [G] in the dirt and he walked out [D] in the street
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