Jackie chords by James Mcmurtry

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Beginner

♫ Intro:


B minorBm D MajorD  A augmentedA  G+G


♫ Verse 1:
 D MajorD
Half a section in the short grass at the foot of the plains
   A augmentedA              G+G       D MajorD
Grows broomweed in the dry times, ragweed when it rains
 D MajorD
It's all she's got left that the lawyers don't claim
 A augmentedA             G+G         B minorBm
Jackie does her damn best, never one to complain

B minorBm D MajorD  A augmentedA  G+G

 D MajorD
She's been green breaking horses when she's home from the road
 A augmentedA           G+G
Waiting on dispatch to find her a load
    D MajorD
She leased all but the trap, ponies can't graze a thing
  A augmentedA         G+G                B minorBm
Another bobtail of coastal ought to last them 'til spring


B minorBm D MajorD  A augmentedA  G+G

D MajorD
There were pitchers on the tables and kids running 'round
 A augmentedA          G+G
Four generations of a blinking light town
      D MajorD
It was the Cotton Eyed Joe or maybe just the right glance
      A augmentedA            G+G
She got to going with Randy at the Friday night dance


♫ Chorus:

B minorBm              D MajorD
I just got two rules, if my conscience be known
   A augmentedA             G+G
Don't lie to me, don't bring me nothing home
 B minorBm             D MajorD
Faithful's a nice word in Sunday school class
 A augmentedA            G+G
Life's just too crazy for that

B minorBm D MajorD  A augmentedA  G+G

♫ Verse 2:
D MajorD
Randy says not to worry, he'll feed while she's gone
 A augmentedA                 G+G
She's got the Freightliner idling half up on his lawn
   D MajorD
He don't like her driving when the northers come blue
  A augmentedA              G+G
But if the horses went hungry Lord knows what she'd do
   D MajorD
'Round Christmas up the Caprock you can see all the towns
  A augmentedA             G+G
And the courthouses lit up for ten miles around
  D MajorD
It's a magical time to be traveling the roads
  A augmentedA              G+G
Watch the country roll by in the halogens' glow

♫ Chorus:

B minorBm              D MajorD
I just got two rules, if my conscience be known
   A augmentedA             G+G
Don't lie to me, don't bring me nothing home
 B minorBm             D MajorD
Faithful's a nice word in Sunday school class
 A augmentedA            G+G
Life's just too crazy for that


 B minorBm D MajorD A augmentedA G+G

♫ Bridge:
D MajorD
She jack knifed on black ice with an oversized load
A augmentedA                      G+G
There's a white cross in the borrow ditch where she went off the road
D MajorD
She wasn't going that fast, the responders all say
 A augmentedA                   G+G
How it ended that bad, we can wonder all day


♫ Chorus:

B minorBm              D MajorD
I just got two rules, if my conscience be known
   A augmentedA             G+G
Don't lie to me, don't bring me nothing home
 B minorBm             D MajorD
Faithful's a nice word in Sunday school class
 A augmentedA            G+G
Life's just too short for all that


B minorBm              D MajorD
I just got two rules, if my conscience be known
   A augmentedA             G+G
Don't lie to me, don't bring me nothing home
 B minorBm             D MajorD
Faithful's a nice word in Sunday school class
 A augmentedA            G+G
Life's just too short for all that
 A augmentedA            G+G
Life's just too short for all that
       B minorBm
for all that

♫ Outro:

B minorBm D MajorD  A augmentedA  G+G