One Paper Kid chords by Guy Clark

• Difficulty: Beginner

Key: D

🎸 Verse 1:
D           A           Bm
Cowboys and Indians and trees he could climb
G             D            A         A7
Tomorrow came too fast but he didn't mind
        D            A        Bm
Ah, the distance was short so light it again
   G             D       A           D
It don't take no time to get where I am

🎸 Chorus:
        Bm        G          A         D
But the one paper kid wasn't really so mean
            A                       D
He's just a little bit scared and a little bit green
         D          Bm             A        D
And he'd heard of a place that was legal to dream
   D                            A          Bm
So he sat with his coffee and a blue Texas wind
    G                  Bm            A          G      D
And wrote on the rock "the one paper kid, he's rollin' again"

🎸 Verse 2:
D              A           Bm
The driver was drunk or he just didn't see
    G          D            A         A7
The future was there: it'll happen to me
            D            A          Bm
And all the time that he wasted was his once again
G              D           A               D
It never takes too long to go where you've been

🎸 Bridge:
        Bm            G             A        D
There's broken hearts scattered all over the past
    G                Bm
And old bad memories tryin' to last
 Bm         G         A          D
Whiskey and women and growing up fast
G                       A
Fussin' and lovin' and itchin' like grass

🎸 Chorus:
          D                    A         D
Hell, the one paper kid wasn't really so mean
       G                           D
Just a little bit weird 'cause the times were so lean
         D         Bm               A        D
Now he's gone to a place where it's legal to dream
   Bm         G          A
No camels, no coffee, no cold morning wind
         D                Bm             A       G         D
And it's writ on the rock "the one paper kid, he's rollin' again
    Bm        A        D        G
The one paper kid, he's rollin' again