Tow Live chords by The Devil Makes Three

Chords with lyrics

Artist: The Devil Makes Three
Song: Tow
Transcribed by: J-Heck

Note: This is mostly from their live version on "A Little Bit Faster and A augmentedA Little Bit
Worse" but there's a tiny bit of my own arrangement going on.
Guitarists may want to use a capo at the third fret (and adjust chords accordingly),
otherwise - It should be played on a Tenor Banjo or Tenor Guitar. ;)
The intro is half a verse (to the first D7D7).

G minorGm           C minorCm
Someone left a child and did not even care
      G minorGm                 D MajorD
Before the first shots of the battle here had even pierced the air
     G minorGm                 C minorCm
Yes, they run now like them children to those arms of mother earth
     G minorGm               D MajorD          D7D7
Trying to pretend as if there was a day before their very birth
    D MajorD         D7D7        C majorC        C7C7
But me, I just grab these ropes that me and mine have left behind
   C minorCm        Cm7Cm7       D MajorD        D7D7
And I stare up to that mountain that I know I got to climb

          G minorGm        C minorCm   Cm7Cm7
I keep towin' that line - Mm-mmm-mm-mmmm
          G minorGm      D MajorD   D7D7
I keep towin' that line - Mm-mmm-mmmm

D MajorD D7D7 C majorC C7C7 C minorCm Cm7Cm7 D MajorD D7D7

G minorGm                 C minorCm
Well down in basements choked with smoke child of the past
     G minorGm                  D MajorD
All them dreams come up for air round here but they can only gasp
     G minorGm                C minorCm
All them old men they sit staring as life slips out from their grips
    G minorGm               D MajorD         D7D7
Only to fall and disappear beyond their cracked old fingertips
    D MajorD         D7D7      C majorC        C7C7
But me, I just grab these ropes me and mine have left behind
   C minorCm        Cm7Cm7      D MajorD        D7D7
And I stare up to that daemon that I know has got to die

          G minorGm        C minorCm   Cm7Cm7
I keep towin' that line - Mm-mmm-mm-mmmm
          G minorGm      D MajorD   D7D7
I keep towin' that line - Mm-mmm-mmmm

D MajorD D7D7 C majorC C7C7 C minorCm Cm7Cm7 D MajorD D7D7

SOLO: G minorGm / C minorCm / G minorGm / D MajorD D7D7 D MajorD D7D7
C majorC C7C7 C minorCm Cm7Cm7 D MajorD D7D7

          G minorGm        C minorCm   Cm7Cm7
I keep towin' that line - Mm-mmm-mm-mmmm
          G minorGm      D MajorD   D7D7
I keep towin' that line - Mm-mmm-mmmm

D MajorD D7D7 C majorC C7C7 C minorCm Cm7Cm7 D MajorD D7D7

G minorGm             C minorCm
But down in ditches by that road I call my own
    G minorGm             D MajorD
All of you come up cussin' now and all just throwing stones
      G minorGm               C minorCm
Yes they're big men now to settle down and life's so stale and cold
   G minorGm              D MajorD         D7D7
As if I could ever do the way they do just as they're told
         D MajorD       D7D7      C majorC
  C7C7
So if you should find me living low when the miles have passed me by
    C minorCm        Cm7Cm7        D MajorD      D7D7
And it seems that I have left now all that I could love behind

           G minorGm        C minorCm   Cm7Cm7
I'm just towin' that line - Mm-mmm-mm-mmmm
           G minorGm      D MajorD   D7D7
I'm just towin' that line - Mm-mmm-mmmm
           G minorGm        C minorCm   Cm7Cm7
I'm just towin' that line - Mm-mmm-mm-mmmm
           G minorGm      D MajorD   D7D7
I'm just towin' that line - Mm-mmm-mmmm

D MajorD D7D7 C majorC C7C7 C minorCm Cm7Cm7 D MajorD D


I'm a big fan of accurate, legible, and neatly formatted charts that are
typically true to studio versions, with noted exceptions.
Any and all suggestions and corrections to my transcriptions are welcome