Southwestern Pilgrimage

Intro | D A/E | D/F# G | A | G | | A | G A | D | D | A D A/E D/F# G A I’m tired of drinking your muddy water, babe, sleepin’ in your hollow love. G A G A D I’m gonna take up with a stranger, get myself a fast-movin' dog. A D A/E D/F# G A Goodby you empty closets, my true love of seven years, G A G A D I’m on a Southwestern pilgrimage to be a frontier sonneteer. [Verso 1] A D A/E D/F# G A Goodbye you auctioneers, you guillotine racketeers, G A G A D I’m looking for a holy man, out here on the old frontier. A D A/E D/F# G A I’m gonna take along a lady who ain’t never seen a mountain before, G A G A D I’m on a SW pilgrimage where the middle class can't hunt me down no more. Interlude | A | D A/E | D/F# G | A | | G | A | G A | D | [Verso 3] A D A/E D/F# G A I should have been a gypsy all along and I know that now G A G A D but I got slowed up, I let a city woman drag me down. A D A/E D/F# G A And the contracts and the circus acts they make it so I can’t relax no more G A G A D but my stomach never hurt me much when I was sleepin’ on the floor. [Verso 4] A D A/E D/F# G A That old buzzard’s flying all around that same old Texas sky G A G A D and I take that as a sign that it is time to either lay me down or fly. A D A/E D/F# G A So, it's out of my house and it's into my truckin’ clothes, G A G A D D I’m on a Southwestern pilgrimage where the wheel stops, nobody knows!