Chords for Turnpike Troubadours perform "Gin Smoke Lies" on The Texas Music Scene

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[G] [D] Based out of Norman, Oklahoma, the [G] Turnpike Troubadours are riding quite a wave of momentum
[D] all over the Texas [Gm] music [F] scene.
Now, [G] I just love the way this outfit blends country rock with roots music, just like on
the cheating song, Gin, Smoke, and Lies from their project, Goodbye, Normal Street.
Gin, Smoke, and Lies, I was [C] at my mom and dad's house down in [G] southeast Oklahoma, and
I sat down on the front porch and I was playing a [C] banjo, and [G] anyway, I realized that I couldn't
keep one [D] woman [Gm] and [F] the [G] rooster in the backyard had 20, and so the whole song's [D] based around that.
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[G] It's mostly about birds.
It's just a song about birds, really.
It's just a bluegrass traditional thing.
I mean, the ominous, [C] murderous feel, you know?
[G] That's mad and [C] mad at love.
[Gm] Like Doc, well, like somebody like [Am] Doc Boggs [D] and those old guys that were playing [F] Clawhammer
Banjo, [G] all those tunes are that [D] way, and it's just a, [F] I mean, it's an [Gm] interpretation of
what guys [F] have been doing [G] for really 100, 200 years, you know?
It's just my interpretation of [Bb]
maybe a Doc Boggs song or a Doc Watson song, you know? _ _ _
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[F] _ [G] _ _ [C] I'm just playing [G] for a crime. _
Well, a rooster, he got 20 gals, and he's happy [F] as a lark.
[Gm] Well, they come in the morning time, put [Am] them all [G] to bed at dark.
Put [C] them all [Gm] to bed at dark.
_ Well, if you've been true, and if you've been true, you've been in love with me [F] and the
guy, _ [G] but all that's left is cheap perfume [Gm] _
and gin [F] and smoke [Gm] and love.
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Oh, well, where were you last Saturday, all dressed up [F] so pretty?
[Gm] With your blue-eyed ballroom boy in [Fm] Oklahoma [G] City, up in [F] [Gm] Oklahoma City. _
Well, a spade is made for digging dirt, and an axe is made [F] for chopping.
[G] Darling, my heart's hard as nails, they hammer in [F] a [Gm] hardwood coffin, [F] in a [G] hardwood coffin.
Well, if you've [Gm] been true, and if you've been true, _ you've been in love with me and [F] the guy,
[G] but all [Gm] that's left is cheap perfume _ and gin [F] and smoke [Gm] and love. _ _
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Well, way down in the bottom land, a big black [F] crow is laughing.
[G] No one ever go down there.
I [F] wonder what [Gm] has happened.
Wonder what has happened. _
And in the heart of a well, the loneliest [F] of is life.
[G] Only fools want true love, [F] it can't be [G] blamed for crime.
It [F] can't be [G] blamed for crime.
Well, if you've [Gm] been true, _ and if you've been true, you've been in love with me and [F] the guy,
but [G] all that's left is cheap perfume _ _ and gin and [F] smoke [Gm] and love.
Well, if you've been true, and if you've been true, you better look me in [F] the eye,
but _ all [G] that's left is cheap perfume and gin [F] and smoke and [G] love.
[Gm] _ And gin [F] and smoke [Gm] and love.
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_ [G] _ _ _ _ Yes, sir.
[Bm] Well done, gentlemen.
Now, keep [E] it right here, folks.
[Gb] We've got Mr.
Robert Earl Keen in the [B] hot seat and [Db] up next.
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