Higher Lonesome
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Afinação: E A D G B ETecla: GCapotraste: Sem capotraste
As recorded by Willi Carlisle
(From the 2024 Album CRITTERLAND)
[Intro]
G D Em7 C D G
[Verse 1]
G D/F# Em7
Turned around in Tidewater all alone in Pueblo
C D
I've been driving with a death wish down the mountains on my phone
G D/F# Em7
Half the places I've been might be laced with psilocybin
C D
I've been dreaming of a country I saw at the rodeo
G D/F#
Packed a bowl in the Bojangles
Em7
'Cause Tennessee's so cold
C D
Charlottesville by sundown's a nightmare to behold
G D/F#
There's an old town dame with a twisty name
Em7
I couldn't read it if she wrote it
C
She's got a black powder revolver
D
Wants to see if it's still loaded
[Chorus 1]
C D Em7
I've been called by a higher lonesome
C D Em7
Been low as low can be
C D
You can write it on my tombstone
Em7 C
Outlaw life looks pretty wholesome
D
When you pay the price in foolishness
D/F# Em7
It takes to get you free
C D G D/F# Em7 C D G
Higher lonesome, kill the bitter parts of me
[Verse 2]
G D/F#
Co-dependents, SLA, and AL-Anon
Em7
They all know how I felt for ya
C D
I felt it in my guts before two steps in Philadelphia
G D/F#
With every coin the joiners get
Em7
They're farther from the pain of it
C D
With all the hurtin' that we did, it's a shame no coin will pay for it
G D/F# Em7
I think I fell in love again on a walk in city park
C D
Jodorowsky on the tiny screen and zigzags in the dark
G D/F#
And I figured I should let it go
Em7
Or give it a couple days
C
It's a ton of bricks in Minneapolis
D
She don't know my last name
[Chorus 2]
C D Em7
But I've been called by a higher lonesome
C D G
Been low as low can be
C D
You can write it on my tombstone
Em7 C
Outlaw life looks pretty wholesome
D
When you pay the price in foolishness
D/F# Em7
It takes to get you free
C D G D/F# Em7 C D G
Higher lonesome killed the bitter parts of me
[Verse 3]
G D/F# Em7
I saw the darkness coming at me in a Jeff City motel
C D
There was writing on the mirror said "You messed up so go to hell"
G D/F#
And Cormier's pills were on me still
Em7
And her letter just half-read
C D
By the time the sun was up I just got breakfast instead
G D/F# Em7
I wish I could call the old folks that aren't with us anymore
C D
I feel granny dancing recklessly at the Floyd county store
G D/F#
And the artist has his suffering
Em7
And the gods will have their pain
C
By the time the ride is over
D
I'm sure I'll ask to ride again
C D
To see the snowfall in Wyoming
G D/F# Em7
Strung out on Johno's coke
C D
Keep a mailbox in Nebraska
Em7
So I know that Laura knows
C D
She can write a letter once a year
G G/B Em7
To say that we're still close
C D
I can put my sins on Benjamin
G G/B Em7
Hear the songs he wrote
C D
See, I don't want to hit rock bottom
G G/B Em7
Just to see how deep it goes
C D
Shine a light on six feet under
G Em
So I ain't afraid to go
C D
Prove in fact the end's as lovely as can be
G
When higher lonesome kills the bitter parts of me
C D Em
I've been called by a higher lonesome
C D G D/F#
Higher lonesome, kill the bitter parts of me
[Outro]
Em C D G
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