Decent Man chords by James Mcmurtry

Chords with lyrics

Intro:

D MajorD G+G A augmentedA
D MajorD G+G A augmentedA


Verse 1:
D MajorD                  G+G
 He was more than just a decent man, best friend I ever had
D MajorD             A augmentedA       G+G         A augmentedA
 When you're shooting at a coffee can, a thirty eight don't kick that bad
G+G         A augmentedA        D MajorD
But it kicks right through my bones every second of every day
G+G                     A augmentedA
 Clacking by like cobblestones under broken wheels

Verse 2:
D MajorD              G+G
 And if the truth be known
I wasn't doing that well
D MajorD              G+G      A augmentedA
 I wasn't paying attention
I brought it on myself
   G+G        A augmentedA          D MajorD
And I blamed it on the gods that seemed to smile on everybody else
G+G          A augmentedA
 I got so inside out
I didn't know what was real

Chorus:
G+G   A augmentedA       B minorBm A augmentedA G+G
 My fields are empty now
    A augmentedA         B minorBm
My ground won't take the plow
D MajorD   G+G       A augmentedA     B minorBm
 It's washed down to gravel and stones
D MajorD   G+G       A augmentedA    D MajorD
 It's only good for burying bones

Instrumental:
D MajorD G+G A augmentedA
D MajorD G+G

Verse 3:
D MajorD         A augmentedA       G+G          A augmentedA
 I took the pistol off the wall, somebody hollered, "Put it back
D MajorD                     G+G       A augmentedA
 Sit down, dad, before you fall down, you got no earthly use for that"
G+G           A augmentedA      D MajorD        B minorBm
 But I slipped out the kitchen door, saddled up the sway backed mule
G+G                   A augmentedA
 Cinched her tight and swung on board, rode off like a drunken fool

Verse 4:
G+G       A augmentedA       D MajorD
 Rode right on off the world, just like it never mattered none
G+G                     A augmentedA
 There wasn't nothing but me and the hurt, and the biting cold, and the heft of that gun
G+G         A augmentedA       D MajorD        B minorBm
In the pocket of a sheepskin coat, moonlight in a madman's eye
G+G               A augmentedA
 For the unfairness of it all, surely something had to die

Chorus:
G+G   A augmentedA       B minorBm A augmentedA G+G
 My fields are empty now
    A augmentedA         B minorBm
My ground won't take the plow
D MajorD   G+G       A augmentedA     B minorBm
 It's washed down to gravel and stones
D MajorD   G+G       A augmentedA    D MajorD
 It's only good for burying bones

Instrumental:
G+G A augmentedA D MajorD
G+G A augmentedA B minorBm A augmentedA
G+G A augmentedA D MajorD B minorBm
G+G A augmentedA

Bridge:
D MajorD                 G+G
 He came out in the lantern light, his face in the flash was the last I saw
D MajorD                   G+G     A augmentedA
 Of the world when it was still right
I didn't watch it fall
G+G      A augmentedA       D MajorD           B minorBm
 I knew I'd hit him good, twice in the chest without a thought
G+G                     A augmentedA
 Turned the mule towards the county seat, like I knew I ought

Chorus:
G+G   A augmentedA       B minorBm A augmentedA G+G
 My fields are empty now
    A augmentedA         B minorBm
My ground won't take the plow
D MajorD   G+G       A augmentedA     B minorBm
 It's washed down to gravel and stones
D MajorD   G+G       A augmentedA    D MajorD
 It's only good for burying bones

Chorus:
G+G   A augmentedA       B minorBm A augmentedA G+G
 My fields are empty now
    A augmentedA         B minorBm
My ground won't take the plow
D MajorD   G+G       A augmentedA     B minorBm
 It's washed down to gravel and stones
D MajorD   G+G       A augmentedA    D MajorD
 It's only good for burying bones

Instrumental:
D MajorD G+G A augmentedA
D MajorD A augmentedA G+G A augmentedA

Verse 5:
D MajorD         A augmentedA G+G      A augmentedA
Lola comes to visit, just nothing I can say
D MajorD                   G+G        A augmentedA
We sit here of an afternoon 'til it's time for her to go away
G+G           A augmentedA       D MajorD         B minorBm
She rides home on that same mule that brought me to this place
G+G                 A augmentedA
Don't know how she even stands to look upon her daddy's face

Verse 6:

D MajorD                  G+G
 He was more than just a decent man, best friend I ever had
D MajorD             A augmentedA       G+G         A augmentedA
 When you're shooting at a coffee can, a thirty eight don't kick that bad

Outro:
G+G A augmentedA D MajorD