When We Were Close chords by Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit

• Capo on 2nd
• Difficulty: Beginner 👶

Key: E

🎸 Intro:

    Em   G    D          Em   G    D    D
e|--0-0--0-0--2-2--------0-0--0-0--2-2-----------|
B|--0-0--3-3--3-3--------0-0--3-3--3-3-----------|
G|--0-0--0-0--2-2--------0-0--0-0--2-2--2h4p2p0--|
D|--2-2--0-0--0-0--------2-2--2-2--0-0-----------|
A|--2-2--2-2-------------2-2--2-2----------------|
E|--0-0--3-3-------------0-0--3-3----------------|



🎸 Verse 1:
        Em            G                 D
I got a picture of us back when we were close
          Em           G           D
Before we had somebody picking out our clothes
        Em     G               D
But you always dressed in your Sunday best
     Em             G               D
Even when we didn't have nowhere to go
        Em            G            D
I got a picture of us playing in a bar
         Em         G              D
And your shirt cost more than your guitar
        Em        G             D
But you played so heavy and you always let me sing
  Em          G                   D
A couple even though you were the star

🎸 Chorus:
C         G            D
I was the worse of the two of us
C         G            D
But Rex's Blues wasn't through with us
C                  G         D        Am
You were bound for glory and grown to die
C                  Em   G
Oh, but why wasn't I?
D          Em    G    D
Why wasn't I?

🎸 Verse 2:
      Em             G             D
Saw a picture of you laughing with your child
      Em              G          D
And I hope she will remember how you smiled
        Em              G               D
But she probably wasn't old enough, the night somebody sold you stuff
     Em              G        D
That left you on the bathroom tiles
      Em             G        D
Got a picture of you dying in my mind
          Em                  G             D
With some ghosts you couldn't bear to leave behind
    Em              G                  D
But I can hear your voice ring, as you snap another B-string
        Em             G          D
And you finish off the set with only five
Am                                         C
And for a minute there, you're still alive

🎸 Chorus:
C         G            D
I was the worse of the two of us
C         G            D
But Rex's Blues wasn't through with us
C                  G         D        Am
You were bound for glory and grown to die
C                  Em   G
Oh, but why wasn't I?
D          Em    G     D
Why wasn't I?

🎸 Solo:
C C G D
C C G D
G D A Am
C

🎸 Verse 3:
C              G        D
It's not up to me to forgive you
C                        G           D
For the nights that your love had to live through
C                G               D      Am   C
Now you'll never need to look me in the eye

🎸 Outro:
C        G           D
I am the last of the two of us
C                  G           D
But the Fort Worth blues isn't through with us
C                 G        D       Am
You've traveled beyond the Great Divide
C                  Em   G
Oh, but why haven't I?
D          Em    G    D
Why haven't I?
Em G D
Em G D D

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| h   Hammer-on
| p   Pull-off
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