Speed Trap Town chords by Jason Isbell

Chords with lyrics

Buy Jason's new album, "Something More Than Free" on July 17.

This song is in Drop D MajorD tuning (DADGBe) with a capo on the 2nd fret. All chords relative to capo.

Verse 1
        D MajorD             G+G     D MajorD
She said "it's none of my business but it breaks my heart"
     D/B           G+G    D MajorD
Dropped a dozen cheap roses in my shopping cart
    D MajorD            G+G    D MajorD
Made it out to the truck without breaking down
D/B             G+G   D MajorD
Everybody knows you're in a speed trap town
    D MajorD              G+G      D MajorD
It's a Thursday night but there's a high school game
    D/B               G+G   D MajorD
Sneak a bottle up the bleachers and forget my name
   D MajorD          G+G   D MajorD
These 5'8" bastards run a shallow cross
   D/B           G+G     D MajorD
It's a boy's last dream and a man's first loss

Chorus 1
    E minorEm      G+G      D MajorD      D/AD/A
And it never did occur to me to leave, 'til tonight
    E minorEm       G+G     D MajorD
There's no one left to ask if I'm all right
E minorEm       G+G         D MajorD      D/AD/A
Sleep until I'm straight enough to drive, then decide
      E minorEm      G+G        D MajorD
If there's anything that can't be left behind


Verse 2
  D MajorD             G+G     D MajorD
The doctor said daddy wouldn't make it a year
    D/B           G+G    D MajorD
But the holidays are over and he's still here
  D MajorD               G+G D MajorD
How long can they keep you in the ICU
D/B              G+G    D MajorD
Veins through the skin like a faded tattoo
   D MajorD             G+G   D MajorD
Was a tough state trooper from a decade back
     D/B               G+G     D MajorD
Till that girl who wasn't mama caused his heart attack
     D MajorD             G+G    D MajorD
He didn't care about us when he was walkin' around
   D/B           G+G     D MajorD
Just pulling women over in a speed trap town

Chorus 2
    E minorEm     G+G      D MajorD       D/AD/A
But it never did occur to me to leave, 'til tonight
    E minorEm       G+G      D MajorD
When I realized he'll never be all right
E minorEm        G+G        D MajorD      D/AD/A
Sign my name and say my last goodbye, then decide
       E minorEm        G+G        D MajorD
That there's nothing here that can't be left behind


[Guitar Solo]


Verse 3
D MajorD             G+G    D MajorD
Roads got blurry when the sun came up
D/B             G+G   D MajorD
Slept a couple hours in the pickup truck
D MajorD              G+G    D MajorD
Drank a cup of coffee by an Indian mound
D/B              G+G     D MajorD
Thousand miles away from that speed trap town
D/B              G+G     D MajorD
Thousand miles away from that speed trap town

Chords:
D: 000232
G: 5x0030
D/B: 020032
Em: 220000