Chords for Tyler Childers - new song (Peace of mind)

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_ _ I roomed with a bunch of boys from Pineville when [Bb] I was in Lexington.
[B] _ _ [Cm] One of my [Ab] roommates had an older brother.
His older brother was absolutely insane.
He was one of the wildest individuals, turned family man that I've ever met.
[Bm] But he was holding it together by a thread, and the thread was his wife and his stepdaughter.
But he had lived in Lexington for a little [B] while, and if you asked his dad
to this day how [Bb] many college credit hours [E] he has, he's like,
Oh, he's just got one more year, _ [B] and he'll have a degree.
That's not the case.
He took [Cm] all the money that he was supposed to put into college,
and he put it into pre [F]-workout and [Ab] training, and he was a competitive bodybuilder [B] for three years.
_ _ [Ab] Then he got married and he went to the railroad.
And he had to quit smoking marijuana, and every time that we ever hung out,
um, yeah, well, _ yeah, [Bb] _ every time we ever hung out, [Cm] he would always tell people,
Boys, I got this many more [Bb] years, and I'm [B] going to enroll me a big old fatty, and just fuck it.
_ [N] So that's where this song started.
_ All [Am] right.
_ [Bb]
But it doesn't start in that key, so it's, and mind you, this is new.
I played this for two people.
_ _ [Bm] And now I play it for one, [Bbm] too. _
[Bb] So if it doesn't work out, we're just going to do [Cm] something absolutely different,
act [F] like it never happened. _
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_ _ [Bb] _ [C] _ _ [Ab] _ _ [F] _
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_ _ _ _ He drinks orange juice and vodka in the basement while she's talking to someone [C] long distance
for hours and hours on end.
And as he's slowly sipping, he thinks about his children and the heart attacks that [F] youngest [Fm] daughter's always given him.
[F] He ain't smoked no marijuana since he got on with the railroad,
and he's been on with the railroad for [Dm] a [F] long and loathsome [Bb] while.
But the day that he retires, [F] he will smoke himself to China.
[C] He will leave behind his worries as he's [Eb] racing through [F] the sky. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ [C] _ _ [Ab] _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ _ _ She sells Avon to her buddies and saves a little money on the makeup she's been using to hide [C] away the years.
And she sits and watches TV, _ usually every evening.
If there ain't some kind of ball [F] game, her daughter has to cheer.
She sneaks menthols in the morning while her family's still snoring.
And as she burns the [Bb] eggo, she looks back at her life.
That heart she broke in high [F] school, he is singing on the [C] Opry.
She wonders what the hell that she was [Eb] thinking [F] at the time.
[Bb] Oh, the days are dark [F]
down in the holler, [C] waiting for the [F] sun to shine.
_ [Bb] On the back, [F] you've been breaking, [C] trying to earn a [F] piece of mind.
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_ _ _ _ The very youngest daughter, Stella, she's been running with this fella
that he cannot stand the thought of, that he surely [C] does despise.
He's told her he'd best never see the two of them together.
But it's hard to [Bb] keep an eye on her [F] when you're working all the time.
There are things he needs to tend to, and the bills the bank keeps sending.
For the zeros [C] on the end, keep [Bb] pushing further to the right.
Like a freight train hauling sorrow and moving [C] ever onward.
Through the tunnel of forever, towards the [Eb] never [F]-ending light.
[Bb] Oh, the days are dark [F] down in the holler, [C] waiting [Cm] for the [F] sun to shine.
_ [Bb] On the back, [F] you've been breaking, [C] trying to earn [Bb] a [F] piece of [C] mind.
Trying to earn a [F] piece of mind.
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