Used to Be a Cop - Drive-By Truckers - Go-Go Boots Chords

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_ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ [Am] She'll be a [A] cop, but I got to be too chumpy.
I used to like to party till I [F] coughed [A] up half a lung. _
Sometimes late at night I feel the beat of bumpin'.
I wake from my holster and [F] I wake [A] up all alone. _
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[A] I used to have a wife, but she said she couldn't handle.
She said she couldn't stand the way I fidget all the time.
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[A] Sometimes late at night I circle around the house.
I look through the windows [F] and I dream that you're [Dm] still mine.
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_ [G] _ _ [F] _ [Dm] I got scars [Em] on my arms [F] from the way my daddy [G] raised me.
[Dm] I used to have [Em] a family [F] until I got [G] divorced.
[Dm] Then there [Em] lies the [F] only thing that [G] can save me.
[Am] I used to be a [A] cop, but they kicked me off the force.
I used to be a cop until they kicked me off [Dm] the force.
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[A] I [F] used _ [Dm] _ _ [Am] to have a [A] car, but the bank came and took it.
I'm payin' for a house that that bitch lives in now. _ _
_ _ _ _ [Dm] _ [Am] The children that we [A] had, who won't even look at me.
Guess there's nothing left to lose, [F] nothing matters [Dm] anyhow. _ _ _
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_ [F] _ [Dm] I got scars [Am] on my arms [F] from the bullet that [G] once grazed me.
[F] I keep it in [C] a box to [F] remind me where [G] I've been.
[Dm] The thin blue [Em] lines, the only [F] thing that can [C] save me.
[Dm] I used to have [Em] a badge, but [F] they made me turn [G] it in.
[C] And I used to play [Gm] [F] football, _ but [C] it wasn't big enough for college.
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_ [C] _ And I'm past the [F] entrance exam, [C] so it's trying on my way.
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_ [C] _ The ladies who chatted [F] me, _ [C] gave me the only [Gm] thing I was ever [F] even good [Am] at.
[C] So my temper and the _ [F] straights, [C] and they took that thing away.
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have a wife, but she says she couldn't stand
the anger and the tension that was welling inside [Dm] me. _
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Sometimes late at night, I'd circle around the house.
I looked through the windows, and [Am] I'd dream of how it used to [Dm] be. _
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_ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ [Am] I looked through the windows, and I'd dream of how it [Dm] used to be. _
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