Mistress Named Music Cma Medley chords by Eric Church

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 3rd

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)


1) Mistress Named Music

Verse 1:
C majorC
I still remember Miss Bessie singing
                    D MajorD
Black, wrinkled fingers on ivory keys
C majorC                     D MajorD
Just five years old, my church shoes a-dangling
C majorC                  G+G        C majorC
Yeah, she's long gone and I'm still chasing this song

Chorus:
   G+G    D MajorD          G+G       D MajorD
With a guitar full of freedom and a head full of lines
   G+G        D MajorD         E minorEm     D MajorD
That nightlife full of demons has been a hell of a ride
D MajorD       G+G        C majorC      G+G
I got a crazy heart, but I was born to lose it
D MajorD       G+G      E minorEm       D MajorD
 Married to a dream with a mistress named music

Verse 2:
C majorC
No hope and squarely solitary
                        D MajorD
Enough whiskey and Coke, boys, to get me in a bind
C majorC                        D MajorD
Amps juiced, the whole damn block could hear me
             C majorC
Even that cop car rolling past
             G+G
By the time they hit the front door
        D MajorD
I was out the back

Chorus:
   G+G    D MajorD          G+G       D MajorD
With a guitar full of freedom and a head full of lines
   G+G        D MajorD         E minorEm     D MajorD
That nightlife full of demons has been a hell of a ride
D MajorD       G+G        C majorC      G+G
I got a crazy heart, but I was born to lose it
D MajorD       G+G      E minorEm       D MajorD
 Married to a dream with a mistress named music

(na na na...............)
D MajorD C majorC   G+G D MajorD  C majorC   E minorEm D MajorD

Verse 3:
C majorC
White calloused fingers on bronze and nylon
C majorC                    D MajorD
These same old boots are still tapping time
C majorC               D MajorD
Not quite the buzz I used to tie on
       C majorC        G+G
But 'til I'm gone, I'll be chasing this song

N.C.
Spoken: Now let's chase some songs

2) Drink in My Hand

Verse 1:
G+G      E minorEm       C majorC    G+G
Early Monday morning, til Friday five
G+G         E minorEm        C majorC       G+G
Man I work, work, work but I don't climb, climb, climb
G+G              E minorEm   C majorC    G+G
Boss man can shove that overtime up his can
G+G       E minorEm      C majorC       G+G
All I want to do is put a drink in my hand

Chorus:
D MajorD          C majorC     G+G
To fill it up, or throw it down
D MajorD                C majorC     G+G
I got a 40 hour week worth of trouble to drown
G+G       E minorEm         C majorC    G+G
No need to complicate it, I'm a simple man
G+G       E minorEm      C majorC      G+G
All you got to do is put a drink in my hand

Verse 2:
     G+G      E minorEm      C majorC       G+G
Yea the parking lot is muddy, can't get to the door
      G+G       E minorEm         C majorC    G+G
I'll take my jacked up drop er' down in 4x4
G+G        E minorEm    C majorC      G+G
Chill down a long neck, one with the band
G+G        E minorEm      C majorC       G+G
All you got to do is put a drink in my hand

Chorus:
D MajorD          C majorC    G+G
To fill it up, or throw it down
D MajorD                C majorC    G+G
I'm about to tear a new one in this old town
G+G   EM   C majorC   G+G
5,4,3,2,1 I'm a rocket man
G+G       E minorEm      C majorC      G+G
All you got to do is put a drink in my hand

G+G C majorC  G+G  C majorC


3) Mr. Misunderstood

Intro:
G+G  C majorC    G+G  C majorC

Verse 1:
G+G
Hey there, weird kid in your high-top shoes
C majorC
Sitting in the back of the class; I was just like you
G+G
Always left out, never fit in
C majorC
Owning that path you're walking in
G+G       C majorC      G+G       C majorC
Mr. Misunderstood,    Mr. Misunderstood

Verse 2:
G+G
Now, your buddies get their rocks off on Top 40 radio
C majorC
But you love your daddy's vinyl, old-time rock and roll
G+G
Elvis Costello, Ray Wylie Hubbard,
C majorC
and think Jeff Tweedy is one bad mother
G+G      C majorC      G+G       C majorC
Mr. Misunderstood,    Mr. Misunderstood

Chorus:
D MajorD
One day you'll lead the charge, you'll lead the band
C majorC        G+G
Guitar Hero with lightning hands
D MajorD
And the girls will like your tattoos and the veins in your arms
C majorC              G+G
They'll be helpless to your musical charms
G+G               C majorC
And they'll all hold up their hands
G+G           C majorC
And they'll all wanna dance
G+G          C majorC      G+G      C majorC
With Mr. Misunderstood,     Mr. Misunderstood

Verse 3:
G+G        C majorC        G+G         C majorC
First time I met Alabama Hannah, I was skinny as a rail
G+G           C majorC           G+G            C majorC
Red hair tied up in a blue bandanna; she was hotter than the devil's Hell
G+G          C majorC         G+G          C majorC
She turned me on to Back Porch Pickers, Jackson Pollock, and gin
G+G             C majorC         G+G           C majorC
Her daddy didn't trust my intentions, so he turned to his daddy's old .410
G+G         C majorC       G+G       C majorC
I'm Mr. Misunderstood,     Mr. Misunderstood

Chorus 2:
D MajorD
Had an ax to grind, so off I went
C majorC            G+G
Mad at the sun for coming up again
D MajorD
I lost religion, found my soul in the blues
C majorC            G+G
Rubbed the velvet off my blue suede shoes
G+G               C majorC
Yeah, everybody held up their hands
G+G              C majorC
And every soul in Nashville danced
G+G         C majorC      G+G       C majorC
With Mr. Misunderstood,     Mr. Misunderstood


4) Talladega

Intro:
FF C majorC A minorAm G+G
FF C majorC A minorAm G+G

Verse 1:
      FF        C majorC
It was the summer before the real world started and,
  A minorAm     G+G
The deal was we would get to go, if we
FF       C majorC
Cleaned it up, and got it running,
 A minorAm      G+G
Daddy's old Winnebago.

Verse 2:
 FF         C majorC
Wing and a prayer down 65,
 A minorAm          G+G
Five best friends on four bald tires,
    FF       C majorC
I can still see Billy smiling
         G+G
When we finally made it.

Chorus:
    FF     C majorC
To Talladega, boys raised up,
 A minorAm       G+G
Whiskey in your glass,
     FF      C majorC
here's to turning up, slowing down
  A minorAm        G+G
and cars that go real fast,
     FF          C majorC
We were laughing and living, drinking and wishing,
   A minorAm        G+G         FF
And thinking as that checkered flag was waving,
          G+G
Sure would like to stay in,
    FF C majorC A minorAm G+G
Talladega.


5) Desperate Man

Intro:
D MajorD
(Poo poo poo-poo-poo-poo-poo)
C majorC        G+G
(Poo poo poo-poo-poo-poo-poo)
               D MajorD
(Poo poo poo-poo poo poo poo)

Verse 1:
D MajorD
I've seen the Joshua Tree
C majorC       G+G
Got down on my knees
        D MajorD
Threw the Virgin Mother a prayer
D MajorD
I've walked glass barefooted
C majorC
Strolled 'cross the devil's hot coal
G+G            D MajorD
I've tried everything, I swear

Chorus:
D MajorD           G+G
Oh but hey what can I say
C majorC        D MajorD
I'm a desperate man
           G+G
I said hey, what can I say?
C majorC      F5F5    D MajorD
I'm just a desperate man

D MajorD
(Poo poo poo-poo-poo-poo-poo)
C majorC        G+G
(Poo poo poo-poo-poo-poo-poo)
               D MajorD
(Poo poo poo-poo poo poo poo)


6) Some of It

Verse 1:
C majorC
Beer don't keep
C majorC
Love's not cheap
   FF        C majorC
And trucks don't wreck themselves
G+G
Mama ain't a shrink
G+G
Daddy ain't a bank
  A minorAm        G+G
And God ain't wishin' well
C majorC
Money ain't rich
C majorC
Everybody sins
   FF        C majorC
And nobody wins in a fight
   A minorAm    G+G      FF
And sometimes wrong is right

Chorus:
C majorC
Some of it you learn the hard way
G+G
Some of it you read on a page
A minorAm
Some of it comes from heartbreak
FF
Most of it comes with age
  C majorC
And none of it ever comes easy
  G+G
A augmentedA bunch of it you maybe can't use
 A minorAm          G+G
I know I don't prob'ly know what think I do
FF
But there's somethin' to
C majorC
Some of it


7) Smoke a Little Smoke

Verse 1:
        A augmentedA
Turn the quiet up, turn the noise down
       A augmentedA
Let this ol' world just spin around
        A augmentedA
I wanna feel it swing, wanna feel it sway
       E MajorE        D MajorD
And put some feel good in my soul
D MajorD           E MajorE          A augmentedA
Drink a little drink, smoke a little smoke

Verse 2:
          A augmentedA
Want a little more right, and a little less left
         A augmentedA
Little more right now, a little less what's next
         A augmentedA
Act like tomorrow's ten years away
       E MajorE            D MajorD
And just kick back and let the feelin' flow
D MajorD           E MajorE       A augmentedA
Drink a little drink, smoke a little smoke

Bridge:
C# minorC#m         D MajorD
I set my sails for a new direction
            A augmentedA
But the wind got in my way
C# minorC#m            D MajorD
I changed my course but my definition of change
        E MajorE
Just ain't the same

Verse 3:
        A augmentedA
I'm gonna sit right here stay away from there
        A augmentedA
I'm gonna make pretend I just don't care
        A augmentedA
And I could get up. go get her back
       E MajorE      D MajorD
Or maybe I'll just let her go
D MajorD           E MajorE       D MajorD
Drink a little drink, smoke a little smoke
D MajorD                  A augmentedA
Drink a little drink, smoke a little smoke
D MajorD
Drink a little drink, smoke a little smoke


8) Pledge Allegiace to the Hag

Verse 1:
 G+G             C majorC    G+G
There's a little dive on a dead-end road
                D MajorD    G+G
Called the Cross-Eyed Cricket Waterin' Hole
                 C majorC    G+G
Where you can hear the sound of a steel guitar
              D MajorD G+G
An' get loud an' rowdy with PBR
      D MajorD        C majorC
But at the top of every hour, man, you can hear a pin drop
    D MajorD               C majorC
As ol' Jack drops a quarter an' plays Merle on that jukebox, an' we stop

Chorus:
G+G
An' tip our hats
   D MajorD         C majorC      G+G   D MajorD
An' raise our glasses of cold, cold beer
      G+G
They say country's fadin'
  D MajorD          C majorC      G+G   D MajorD
But we still wavin' that flag around here
C majorC               G+G          A augmentedA
An' when it's time to go, you know you're welcome back
C majorC            D MajorD         G+G
Where the people pledge allegiance to the Hag

8) Round Here Buzz

Verse 1:
C majorC
Another Friday night
C majorC
There's a line of cars leaving
C majorC
Home team's got an out-of-towner
FF
Me, I'm sitting on the hood of mine drinking
FF                   C majorC
I'm just a parking lot down-and-outer

Verse 2:
C majorC
Under that high school bleacher
C majorC
I drove that preacher's daughter crazy
FF
Her mama was my homeroom teacher
FF                   C majorC
And her dad was hell bent on saving me

Bridge:
      G+G
Yeah, I'm sure there's higher highs
G+G
Where the high risers rise
  FF
But me, I'm gonna sit right here tonight, and

Chorus:
      C majorC
Catch me a 'round here buzz
         FF
Cause you ain't 'round here none
         C majorC
Keep putting 'em down here, 'nother round here
     FF
'Til my down goes up
         C majorC
Lit up like that one stoplight
         FF          A minorAm
Across from that welcome sign
         G+G          FF
Ever since you caught that out there bug
        C majorC
I catch me a 'round here buzz


9) Cold One

Verse 1:
       D MajorD                G+G          D MajorD
It was a perfect day for the end of May, they say a record high
       D MajorD                G+G          D MajorD
I stared at that green water when out of the blue out of surprise
       D MajorD                G+G          D MajorD
She had her feet up on the cooler as she put our love on ice
       D MajorD                  G+G     A augmentedA   D MajorD
She grabbed a beer, said, "I'm out of here," and walked out of my life

Chorus:
      D MajorD      G+G         D MajorD
That was a cold one, I never will get back
     D MajorD                   G+G
Yeah she had to leave, did she have to leave me one beer short of a twelve pack?
D MajorD                    G+G          D MajorD
She left me hanging high and dry in that hell high summer sun
D MajorD     A augmentedA           D MajorD
Damn babe, that was a cold one

10) Like a Wrecking Ball

Verse 1:
G+G      E minorEm     C majorC       D MajorD           G+G
I, I been gone I been gone too long singing my songs on the road.
    E minorEm     C majorC      D MajorD
Another town, one more show and I'm coming home
E minorEm             C majorC
Don't give a damn what these keys are for
E minorEm          D MajorD
I'm gonna knock down that front door, and

Chorus:
C majorC       D MajorD         G+G
Imma find out what that house is made of.
C majorC       D MajorD             G+G
Been too many nights since its felt us make love.
C majorC          D MajorD          E minorEm    D MajorD      C majorC
I wanna rock some Sheetrock, knock some pictures off the wall.
C majorC      D MajorD            G+G E minorEm FF C majorC
Love you baby, like a wrecking ball.


11) Homeboy

Intro:
A augmentedA G+G D MajorD

Verse 1:
 A augmentedA
You were too bad for a little square town,
     G+G          D MajorD
With your hip-hop hat and your pants on the ground,
     A augmentedA
Heard you cussed out mama, pushed daddy around
      G+G        D MajorD
before you tore off in his car

Verse 2:
A augmentedA
Here you are running these dirty old streets
  G+G           D MajorD
Tattoo on your neck, fake gold on your teeth
    A augmentedA
Got the hood here snowed, but you cant fool me
  G+G         D MajorD
We both know who you are

Chorus:
A augmentedA
Homeboy, youre gonna wish one day,
       G+G           D MajorD
That you were sittin on a gate of a truck by the lake
     A augmentedA                    G+G      D MajorD
With your high school flame on one side, ice cold beer on the other
A augmentedA                      G+G
Aint no shame in a blue collar forty, little house, little kid, little
D MajorD
small town story
    A augmentedA                    G+G       D MajorD
If you dont ever do anything else for me, just do this for me brother,
    A augmentedA
Come on home, boy.


12) Record Year

Verse 1:
D MajorD                 A augmentedA
Since you turned the tables on me, I've been steady and learnin' lonely
B minorBm                G+G
Keepin' this turntable spinning', everything from Jones to Jennings
D MajorD              A augmentedA
Slowly plannin' my survival, in a three-foot stack of vinyl
B minorBm                 G+G
Since you had to walk on outta here, I've been havin' a record year

Verse 2:
D MajorD                 A augmentedA
I bet you thought before you left,I'd just sit in silence by myself
B minorBm             G+G
Turn this house into a jail, dyin' slow in a livin' hell
   D MajorD                    A augmentedA
But, love's got a funny way of keepin' score, and your leavin' lit up my

scoreboard
B minorBm                   G+G
I usually make it through side A augmentedA sober, all bets are off when I flip her over
  E minorEm     F# minorF#m     G+G
One bourbon, one scotch, one beer, I'm havin' a record year

Chorus:
D MajorD         A augmentedA        G+G       A augmentedA
Quarter notes and Hank's half time, are poundin' on this heart of mine
D MajorD       A augmentedA       G+G
Song to song, I pass my time, with these speakers on ten
D MajorD              A augmentedA      G+G            A augmentedA
Your good-and-gone keeps me up all night, along with Songs In The Key Of Life
D MajorD          A augmentedA        G+G
I'm either gonna get over you, or I'm gonna blow out my ears
       E minorEm         F# minorF#m        G+G
Yeah, you're out there now, doin' God knows how, and I'm stuck here
N.C.
Havin' a record year

13) Give Me Back My Hometown

Verse 1:
G+G
Damn I used to love this view, sit here and drink a few
E minorEm                 C majorC
Main street and the high school, lit up on Friday night
G+G
Down there it's another touchdown, Man this year’s team is stout
E minorEm             C majorC
I can hear em going crazy, and up here so am I

Pre-Chorus 1:
D MajorD                   C majorC
Thinkin about you sittin there sayin I hate this, I hate it
D MajorD                     C majorC     D MajorD
If you couldn’t stand livin here why’d you take it, take it?

Chorus:
G+G  D MajorD   E minorEm C majorC     G+G
Give me back my hometown
G+G       D MajorD   G+G
Cause this is my hometown

Verse 2:
G+G
All the colors of my youth, the red the green the hope the truth
E minorEm                  C majorC
Are beating me black and blue cause your in every scene.
G+G
My friends try to cheer me up, we get together at the Pizza Hut
E minorEm                 C majorC
I didn’t have the heart to tell em that was our place

Pre-Chorus 2:
D MajorD                  C majorC
These sleepy streetlights on every sidewalk, side street
D MajorD          C majorC     D MajorD
Shed a light on everything that used to be

Chorus:
G+G  D MajorD   E minorEm C majorC     G+G
Give me back my hometown
G+G       D MajorD   G+G
Cause this is my hometown

E minorEm C majorC E minorEm C majorC


14) Sinners Like Me

Intro:
C majorC G+G D MajorD G+G
C majorC G+G D MajorD G+G


Verse 1:
C majorC   G+G
I was 15
    D MajorD      G+G
When my daddy's old man
     C majorC    G+G        D MajorD
Caught me half way through my first beer
  C majorC     G+G
He laughed so hard
   D MajorD       E minorEm
when my face turned green
      C majorC      G+G      D MajorD      G+G
he said you come from a long line of sinners like me

Verse 2:
  C majorC    G+G       D MajorD    G+G
now me and my brother go to see him sometimes
   C majorC      G+G      D MajorD
but he don't have much to say anymore
   C majorC     G+G        D MajorD     E minorEm
so we sit on his headstone with a fifth of Jack D MajorD
C majorC      G+G      D MajorD      G+G
here's to a long line of sinners like me


15) Creepin'
D MajorD C majorC G+G D MajorD
D C majorC G+G D MajorD

Verse 1:
D MajorD
Like a honey bee beatin' on my screen door
D MajorD
I got a little buzz and my head is sore
D MajorD
From my bed I can feel the sun
D MajorD
Lord I hear the mornin' come
D MajorD
Just a creepin', creepin', creepin'

Verse 2:
D MajorD
You shot outta here like a bullet from a gun
D MajorD
A augmentedA flick of the switch, a thief on the run
D MajorD
Since the day you left me baby
D MajorD
I can feel the lonely, I can feel the crazy
D MajorD
Just a creepin', creepin', creepin'

Chorus:
D MajorD            C majorC
You head for the future, run from the past
G+G            D MajorD
Hide from the mirror and live in a glass
D MajorD          C majorC
What dreams forget, the whiskey remembers
G+G           D MajorD
Kinda like molasses in late December
    D MajorD
Just a creepin', creepin', creepin'


16) Springsteen

Intro:
D MajorD G+G B minorBm A augmentedA

Verse 1:
D MajorD
To this day when I hear that song,
 D MajorD
I see you standing there on that lawn,
G+G
Discount shades, store bought tan,
B minorBm       A augmentedA
flip-flops and cut off jeans.
D MajorD
Somewhere between that setting sun,
D MajorD
I'm On Fire and Born To Run,
G+G
You looked at me and I was done,
      B minorBm      A augmentedA
but we were just getting started.

D MajorD
I was singing to you, you were singing to me,
D MajorD
I was so alive, never been more free,
G+G                    B minorBm     A augmentedA
Fired up my daddy's lighter and we sang oh-woah-oh-woah-ohh.

D MajorD
Stayed there till they forced us out,
D MajorD
We took the long way to your house,
  G+G
And I can still hear the sound,
    B minorBm      A augmentedA
Of you saying don't go.

Chorus:
D MajorD
When I think about you,
A augmentedA
I think about 17,
B minorBm
I think about my old Jeep,
G+G
I think about the stars in the sky.
B minorBm         A augmentedA
Funny how a melody sounds like a memory,
D MajorD           G+G  D MajorD      E minorEm E minorEm
Like a soundtrack to a July Saturday night,
D MajorD     G+G    B minorBm     A augmentedA
Springsteen.

Verse 2:
D MajorD
If I bumped in to you by happenstance,
D MajorD
You probably wouldn't even know who I am,
  G+G
But if I whispered your name,
        B minorBm     A augmentedA
I bet there'd still be a spark.
D MajorD                    D MajorD
From back when I was gasoline and this old tattoo had brand new ink,
   G+G                         B minorBm     A augmentedA
And we didn't care what your mom would think 'bout your name on my arm.
  D MajorD
Baby is it spring or is it summer,
 D MajorD
The guitar sound or the beat of the drummer,
  G+G                B minorBm  A augmentedA
You hear sometimes late at night on your radio.
  D MajorD
Even though you're a million miles away,
  D MajorD
When you hear Born In The USA,
  G+G                B minorBm   A augmentedA
Do you relive those Glory Days from so long ago?

Chorus:
D MajorD
When you think about me,
A augmentedA
Do you think about 17,
B minorBm
Do you think about my old Jeep,
G+G
Think about the stars in the sky.
B minorBm         A augmentedA
Funny how a melody sounds like a memory,
D MajorD           G+G  D MajorD      E minorEm E minorEm
Like a soundtrack to a July Saturday night,
D MajorD     G+G B minorBm     A augmentedA
Springsteen, Springsteen.

Break:
D MajorD         D MajorD         G+G         B minorBm  A augmentedA
Whoah-oh-oh-oh-oh, Woah-oh-oh-oh-oh, Woah-oh-oh-oh-oh, Ohh-ohh.

Ending:
D MajorD         A augmentedA
Funny how a melody sounds like a memory
B minorBm           G+G    D MajorD   E minorEm
Like a soundtrack to a CMA Fest Friday night
D MajorD G+G


17) Mistress Named Music Final Chorus:
   G+G    D MajorD          G+G       D MajorD
With a guitar full of freedom and a head full of lines
   G+G        D MajorD         E minorEm     D MajorD
That nightlife full of demons has been a hell of a ride
D MajorD       G+G        C majorC      G+G
I got a crazy heart, but I was born to lose it
D MajorD       G+G      E minorEm       D MajorD
 Married to a dream with a mistress named music