Bayou Tortous chords by James Mcmurtry

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
DmDm

Verse 1:
DmDm
Got a idea, tell you what let's do
DmDm
Let's go out to that place on the Turtle Bayou
DmDm
We'll maybe get lucky, maybe get shot
  FF          G+G
It couldn't be half the trouble I got


Refrain:
DmDm
Turtle Bayou turn around
DmDm
Turtle Bayou turn around

Verse 2:
DmDm
Just another night with the missus and me
DmDm
Settin' on the couch watchin' Court TV
DmDm
But lemme tell you son it can sure get real
    FF              G+G
If you ever get to thinkin' it's a done deal


Chorus:
DmDm
Turtle Bayou turn around
DmDm
Get your big feet up off the ground
DmDm
Turtle Bayou turn around
DmDm                 G+G     DmDm
We'll pass a good time out past the lights of town


Instrumental:
DmDm
Dm
DmDm
FF G+G

Verse 3:
DmDm
She comes from the land of the Bois d'Arc tree
DmDm
Scotts Irish and Cherokee
DmDm
She come down here when the northers blow
 FF           G+G
She don't care for the ice and snow

Chorus:
DmDm
Turtle Bayou turn around
DmDm              G+G
Get your big feet up off the ground
DmDm
Turtle Bayou turn around
DmDm             G+G         DmDm
We'll pass a good time out past the lights of town


Instrumental:
DmDm

Bridge:
FF
Take my hand Oklahoma Jane
DmDm
One little dance wouldn't hurt a thing
FF
Now it's noon, I'm rollin' up the drive
   G+G        A augmentedA
And I ain't even got a decent lie


Verse 4:
DmDm                    G+G
Doesn't everybody get that way sometimes?
   DmDm
I was lookin' at every woman but mine
 DmDm
I was lookin' at the faces, lookin' at the parts
 FF         FF
Lookin' through the hole in the bottom of my heart


Chorus:
DmDm
Turtle Bayou turn around
DmDm              G+G
Get your big feet up off the ground
DmDm
Turtle Bayou turn around
DmDm             G+G         DmDm
We'll pass a good time out past the lights of town


Refrain:
DmDm
Turtle Bayou turn around
DmDm
Turtle Bayou turn around