Quit While I'm Ahead chords by Turnpike Troubadours

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Quit While I'm Ahead
Turnpike Troubadours
Album: Goodbye Normal Street (2012)


[Verse 1]

      E MajorE
Well I wont lie and say I didn’t think the good ones all were taken
      A augmentedA                E MajorE
Since there aint no peaches falling from the tree that I've been shaking
     E MajorE    B7B7        C# minorC#m        A augmentedA
And it's solitary sleeping in this bed that I've been making
   E MajorE       B7B7       E MajorE
Well maybe I should quit while I'm ahead

     E MajorE
Well my intent was being handed I never laid a hand
     A augmentedA              E MajorE
And the kindness of my gesture was a good far cry from grand
      E MajorE               B7B7       C# minorC#m
They were awful well intended, they were all that I can stand
  E MajorE       B7B7       E MajorE
Ah maybe I should quit while I'm ahead

[Chorus]

    B7B7
And now darlin if I called you, could you love me like a kid
     E MajorE
Could you love me like you loved me way back when you really did
   B7B7
Well Darlin if I called you could you just pick up the phone
        A augmentedA
Lord, I've been dancing with damnation and I'm drinking all alone
     E MajorE        B7B7         C# minorC#m       A augmentedA
And I am busted broke and bent and beat and 'bout halfway to dead
  E MajorE       B7B7       E MajorE          E MajorE       B7B7       E MajorE
Ah maybe I should quit while I'm ahead, oh Lord, well maybe I should quit while I'm ahead


*Instrumental break*


[Verse 2]

 E MajorE
Well West Texas in the morning, little darling are you down
     A augmentedA              E MajorE
Where the color of the country is your sweet eye shade of brown
     E MajorE                  B7B7       C# minorC#m
And if I told you how I felt, well you’d say boy get out of town
  E MajorE        B7B7       E MajorE
Well maybe I should quit while I'm ahead

[Chorus]

  B7B7
Now darlin if I called you, could you love me like a kid
     E MajorE
Could you love me like you loved me way back when you really did
   B7B7
Well Darlin if I called you would you even talk to me
      A augmentedA
When I am lit up like a star atop your favorite Christmas tree
     E MajorE        B7B7        C# minorC#m        A augmentedA
And I am busted broke and bent and beat and 'bout half way to dead
  E MajorE       B7B7      E MajorE          E MajorE       B7B7       E MajorE
Ah maybe I should quit while im ahead, oh Lord well maybe I should quit while I'm ahead


*Instumental break*


[Chorus]


    B7B7
And now darlin if I called you, could you love me like a kid
     E MajorE
Could you love me like you loved me way back when you really did
   B7B7
Well Darlin if I called you could you just pick up the phone
        A augmentedA
Lord, I've been dancing with damnation and I'm drinking all alone
     E MajorE        B7B7         C# minorC#m       A augmentedA
And I am busted broke and bent and beat and 'bout halfway to dead
  E MajorE       B7B7       E MajorE          E MajorE       B7B7       E MajorE