Chords for Todd Snider - D.B. Cooper

_ My [Am] name's Todd Snyder.
_ I've been [D] driving around this country [E] _ for a long [F] time _ making [N] this stuff up and singing it for anyone that [D] will listen to it.
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I _ _ _ like to let people know before I go too far into my portion of any show that I'm may gonna share some of my opinions with you over the course of it.
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_ _ I'm not gonna share them with you because I think they're smart _ or because I think that you should know them.
_ I'm gonna share them because they rhyme.
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_ I [N] didn't come down here to change any of y'all's minds about _ anything. _
_ I came down here for the same reason as everybody else which was to ease my own mind about everything.
_ So thanks for letting me be here.
_ _ _ This
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[Bb] is an old legend from where I come from.
It [G] goes like this. _ _
[D] _ D.B. Cooper was 43.
_ _ _ [C] _
He first heard [G] his name. _ _ _ _ _
47 _ _ [Dm] miles away from [Em] where he [Am] fell down to [Dm] his fame.
_ _ _ _ [C]
He told _ [G] me [D] that the hardest part _ [G] wasn't really jumping out of a [C] _
plane. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] It was spending the night [C] watching _ police lights _ [G] shine through the pouring _ _ rain.
_ [C] _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ They had a [D] man that next morning [Em] like _ nothing we'd ever [C] seen. _
_ _ [G] _ I was only eight [D] years old at the [Em] time I was watching on the TV _ screen.
[D] _ _
[Em] They were saying [C] he was never [D] going to make it out. _
[G] The daylight _ had [C] set in.
[G] _ _
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[G] But later that night they [C] were shining that light [Bm] back down on [C] that mountain [G] _ again. _ _ _
[C] _ _ Not far [G] _ away _ _ _ [C] from the [G] city of _ Brooklyn. _ _
_ They all [D] watched [Am] those [D] lights up through the rain. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] D [C].B. Cooper.
[G] _ [C] _ _ _
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The _ _ _ [G] _
cops blocked off [D] all the exit roads.
They [Em]
turned loose all of [G] their hounds.
_ _ They even dragged that river up [D] a couple _ _ [C] times to see if he [D] had drowned. _
_ _ [C] [E] All those men [D] working _ overtime _ [G] _ swore they'd bring him [D] _ [G] down.
[C] _
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[G] But a parachute _ [C] and a few hundred [G] dollars was all that [Gb] they'd [G] ever found.
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_ Not [G] far away _ _ _ [C] from _ the city [G] of Rosie. _ _ _ _
They watched [A] those lights up [D] through the rain.
_ _ _ [G] _ [D] _ _
_ _ Some people say that he died up there.
_ [G] _ Somewhere [Am] in the [G] rain and the wind. _ _
_ Other people say that he got away but then [C] his girlfriend [G] did him [D] in. _ _ _ _
[C] The lawmen say he [D]
is out there. _ _ _
Someday they're going to drag [C] him in.
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_ _ _ _ [G] As for me, I [C] hope they never _ see [D] old D [C].B. Cooper [G] _ again. _
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Not [G] far away _ _ _ [C] from _ _ the city [G] of _ Rosie.
_ _ [C] _ They [G] all watched [Am] those lights [G] up through the rain.
[D] _
_ _ _ [G] D [C].B. Cooper.
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