Heathens chords by Drive-by Truckers

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

HEATHENS

 Main Riff:
e|---------------------------------------0---|
B|------10----10---8---8---7---7---5-----1---|
G|---------------------------------------0---|
D|---------------------------------------2---|
A|---10----------8-------7-------5---0-2-3---|
E|---------10--------8-------7---------------|
    G                                   C

Use this riff for all G > C instances.
The top notes can be lightly strummed on the top three
strings for a fuller sound.

G
Something about the wrinkle in your forehead
                   C
Tells me there's a fit about to get thrown

              G
If we get the van out of the ditch before morning
             C
Ain't nobody got to know what I done
      G
And I never hear a single word you say
         C
When you tell me not to have my fun

         G
It's the same old shit that
                       C
I ain't gonna take off anyone.

      D                   C
And I don't need to be forgiven
        D                     C
By them people in the neighborhood
        D
When we first hooked up, you looked me in the eye
          C
And said "Paw, we just ain't no good".

        G
We were Heathens in their eyes at the time,
        C
I guess I am just a Heathen still
      D
And I never have repented from the wrongs
                     C
That they say I have done, I done what I feel.

G     C
G     C

         G
It was a difficult delivery,
         C
Now it's growing up mean and strong
         G
When you tell me that it's getting a little bit tight,
          C
Ain't the first time I been outgrown
    G
And I'm gonna push a little harder
          C
She ain't revved till the rods are thrown
     G               C
I'll walk away

      D                   C
And I don't need to be forsaken
   D              C
By you or anybody else
      D
And I never had a shortage of people tryin' to warn me
          C
About the dangers I pose to myself.

Heathens.

G     C
G     C

      D                    C
These times can take their toll sometimes
      D                           C
And I know you feel the same way, too
   G
It gets so hard to keep between the ditches
         C
When the roads wind the way they do.


Outro:
G     C
G     C
G     C
G     C
D  C  D  C
G     C
G