Pictures In A Drawer chords by Justin Townes Earle

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 2nd

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Difficulty: Intermediate

From Album Single Mothers Absent Fathers

Finger picked with lots of little hammer ons

Intro:
A minorAm

Verse 1:
C majorC
It's raining in the mountains
A minorAm
It's heading this way
C majorC
It’s supposed to rain tomorrow
A minorAm
Or the next day
FF        G+G
Sure I get lonely
C majorC    walk    A minorAm
But a whole lot has changed
FF                   G+G
Yours is the first voice I've heard in days

Verse 2:
C majorC
Oh but mama if you don't mind
    A minorAm
Can we talk about something else
C majorC
Mama please don't come over
      A minorAm
This ain’t nothing you can help
FF        G+G         C majorC    walk A minorAm
You'll be the first to know when I start to come around
FF             G+G             C majorC
I’m not drowning I'm just seeing how long I can stay down

Chorus:
        A minorAm
And mama she's gone
      FF      C majorC
And just a picture in a drawer
FF               C majorC       G+G
The kind of hurt that takes a rainy day and hurts that much more
      C majorC
Mama she's gone

Verse 3:
C majorC
Well you know there's nothing tying me
     A minorAm
to this town now that she's gone
C majorC
Don't know why I ever come back
    A minorAm
Guess I just tagged along
FF    G+G         C majorC      walk   A minorAm
Can't believe that once I called this place my home
FF                 G+G      C majorC
Cause I'm walking the streets and all I see is ghosts

Chorus:
      A minorAm
Mama she's gone
      FF      C majorC
And just a picture in a drawer
  FF         C majorC           G+G
The kind of hurt that takes a rainy day and hurts that much more
      C majorC
Mama she's gone

Instrumental:
C majorC A minorAm C majorC A minorAm FF G+G C majorC A minorAm FF (this is not right, but close-ish)

Bridge:
FF                  C majorC
Lonely, lonely and wondering where I am
FF                         G+G
And I know the love I see was over long before it began

Verse 4:
C majorC
And now the rain's getting closer
A minorAm
Midnight's coming on
  C majorC
The wind seems to whisper
  A minorAm
You fool you know she's gone
FF        G+G            C majorC    walk   A minorAm
I still leave the gate unlatched just in case she staggers home
FF          G+G         C majorC
Mama said she was no good And now she's gone