Chords for Thieving Birds - Tryin' To Rain

[G] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ [G] _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ When I was [G] young I met a girl, she wore those gypsy clothes
[Dm] Taught me how to live [G] a life in the moonlight, [D] and how to see what she really meant
Well, let her wake up now, [C] and talk about [G] things we'd said
[F] The way she [G] described it, it sounded [D] like hell, but it doesn't really trade
She _ said she'd take me [C] down to a [F] place she [Gm] used to know
[Bb] Where the catfish [G] hang, and the river [D] bend, and the roads don't move
Way out in the country, [C] far away from the [G] city lights
She'd sit on a [G] bank, _
[D] _ and drink a [E] one [D]-night-out _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ [G] _ _
[D] _ _ _ [Dm] _ [D] Spent most of that [C] summer, laid up in the shade
[F] Drinking on my [G] grandfather's gifts, and the [D] long grassland was still a shade
_ One day something happened, [C] and the sky blew right away
[F] When you're in the [G] moonlight, and you [D] feel the change
She walked [C] down [G] some dead roads, and [D] her head bowed
_ [C] She said sometimes you [G] just gotta go, before [D] you can stay
_ [C] As she walked away, [G] she said, I don't know [D] how I'll be back
I [Cm] can't just lie, I'll put my [F] head, [G] still in the rain, and I'll [D] try again _ _ _
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_ _ [D] _ _ I went back last summer, [C] oh, the same time
[F] I always [G] _
[D] tried to run, and I
As I lived through it, so [C] hurt, was a lost cause
I [F] was wanting [G] more, and I
[D] She was chasing on my mind
[C] Walking [G] through the woods, with a [D] new plan
_ _ [C] She said sometimes you [G] just gotta go, [D] before you can stay
[C] As she walked away, [G] she said, I don't know [D] how I'll be back
_ [C] I can't just lie, I'll put my [F]
[G] head, still in the rain, and I'll [D] try again _ _
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[Dm] _ _ _ [C] we walked [G] _
[D] down the hall
_ [Cm] She said sometimes you [G] just gotta go, [D] before you can stay
[Dm] As [C] she walked [G] away, she said, I don't know [D] how I'll be back
I'll _ [C] put my [F] head, [G] still in the rain, and I'll [D] try again _ _
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[C] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ [G] Thank you, thank you
Thank you, thank [C] you
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_ _ Thank [N] _ _ you