Chords with lyrics
Verse 1:
E minorEm G+G Dsus2Dsus2
Scatter gun blast, tens in the air, half a million in a burlap sack
E minorEm G+G Dsus2Dsus2 E minorEm
Y'all have a nice day as we make our way to the Caddy in the ally out back
E minorEm G+G Dsus2Dsus2
See when the times get hard some good old boys turn to a life a sin
E minorEm B7B7 E minorEm
We're like Robin Hood, we're just twice as good but we can never go home again
Verse 2:
E minorEm G+G Dsus2Dsus2
Well I grew up singing Amazing Grace in a little white church in the woods
E minorEm G+G Dsus2Dsus2 E minorEm
My momma prayed hard for all her boys but her praying didn't do a bit of good
E minorEm G+G Dsus2Dsus2
The sheriff and a banker man came to push us off of our land
E minorEm B7B7 E minorEm
Now we're six feet deep and my brothers and me we can never go home again
Chorus:
C majorC G+G D MajorD E minorEm
Lord forgive me, I know just what I do
C majorC G+G D MajorD E minorEm
I'll take what I need and then I leave the rest to my momma and you
C majorC G+G D MajorD E minorEm
And that tin roof cabin might not have been heaven but it's closer than I've ever been
C majorC G+G B7B7 E minorEm
God bless an outlaw's weary soul, I can never go home again
Verse 3:
E minorEm G+G Dsus2Dsus2
Sometimes I dream of that old front porch and my momma patching up a quilt
E minorEm G+G Dsus2Dsus2 E minorEm
While my brothers and me lay around in the shade of that live oak tree on the hill
E minorEm G+G Dsus2Dsus2
Now it's hide-out shacks, better watch your back and cover every track of where you've been
E minorEm B7B7 E minorEm
A augmentedA thousand wrongs will never make it right, I can never go home again
Chorus:
C majorC G+G D MajorD E minorEm
Lord forgive me, I know just what I do
C majorC G+G D MajorD E minorEm
I'll take what I need and then I leave the rest to my momma and you
C majorC G+G D MajorD E minorEm
And that tin roof cabin might not have been heaven but it's closer than I've ever been
C majorC G+G B7B7 E minorEm
God bless an outlaw's weary soul, I can never go home again
Verse 4:
E minorEm G+G Dsus2Dsus2
Scatter gun blast tears a ten inch hole through an empty burlap sack
E minorEm G+G Dsus2Dsus2 E minorEm
As I say my peace for my brothers and me as my whole world fades to black
E minorEm G+G Dsus2Dsus2
Here's three new graves underneath the shade of that live oak tree on the hill
E minorEm B7B7 E minorEm
Overlooking momma's porch with a fresh coat of paint and a shiny new Coup De Ville
Chorus 2:
C majorC G+G D MajorD E minorEm
Lord forgive me, I know just what I've done
C majorC G+G D MajorD E minorEm
I've been through hell and found myself on the wrong end of a gun
C majorC G+G D MajorD E minorEm
And that tin roof cabin might not have been heaven but it's closer than I've ever been
C majorC G+G B7B7 E minorEm
God bless an outlaw's weary soul, I thought I'd never make it home
C majorC G+G B7B7 E minorEm