Anything But Tame chords by Rodney Crowell

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Intro:
D G/A A7 D

Verse:
D                                F            D             G/A
When our feet were tough as horn and our eyes were sharp as flint,
                                 A7             F#m7             D
And our hearts beat like two war drums, and you tracked me by my scent,
D                                                G/A
Cross a scape of shiny asphalt, that blacked our soles with tar,
D                     A7                            D
And we ran like brave commanches, on a moonlit reservoir.

Chorus:
              G
And you said, I don't wanna be tamed down,
A7                      F#m
I just wanna saddle up, ride my broomstick pony,
                                             G
Along some salt grass open plain, you really showed your hand,
                          A/E             Em7
Popping off tin cans with your daisy pump air rifle,
    A                 A7   Em                    D
And your Annie Oakley aim, you were anything but tame.

D                                                      G/A
Ah you'd summon me with bird call, or you scratching at my screen,
     D/A                         A7           G/A              D
Your mouth gone sweet with juicy fruit, tawny legs and cut off jeans,
                                    G/A
In my stretchy Ford Ranchero, Ah we rattled like train cars,
                       A7                    G/A        D
And we slung our share of gravel, 'neath a tarpoline of stars.

Chorus:
D
And you said
G/A
I don't wanna be tamed down, I don't wanna give an inch,
    F#m
The fenced off picture perfect in your billfolds window frame,
            G
Ah you were born to romp in this God forsaken swamp,
        A7     Em7                     A                   A7
Dodging cotton mouths and quicksand on your tiptoes in the rain,
            D
You were anything but tame.

Break:
A7 G A G A7 G A G A Bm A Bm Em G

Gmaj7              D                          Gm
I heard Shreveport didn't last and we lit out for L.A.,
                             A7              F#m     G        D
But when lightning claws the night up, I can see you plain as day,
                                       G/A
And when I want to feel you near me, I crawl down off my cloud,
                   A7                          D
And pull on down a bayou and cry your name out loud.

Chorus:
              G/A
And you said, I don't wanna be tamed down,
                                F#m
I don't wanna tread regret, and flat out make excuses,
                                         G
For the way I came up lame, I could have been enough,
                                 A7      Em7
To live this off the ciff on the cutting edge of nowhere,
          A                F#m   A7            F#      Em7 D G/A
Where the sun goes down in flames, we were anything but tame,
         A7      Dsus4/E D Dsus2/E D
Anything but tame.