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Jeff Davis County Blues by The Mountain Goats

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Riff (played often during the intro, between verses, and at the end of lines)
e|-----3------------------------|
B|-----0--1-p0------------------|
G|-----0--------0---------------|
D|-----0-----------0------------|
A|-----2------------------------|
E|-----3------------------------|

E  A

Verse 1:
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After three nights in jail, I head north from Toyaville
A
Switch to 285 in Pecos, head up to Red Bluff
E
My walk's real steady and my eyes are real cold

When I feel like I'm only sixteen years old
A
Lost in a travel lodge
                                    E
With the television on with the sound down

I don't feel so tough
Am           B                E
Old issues of sunset magazine to read
                    Am  B
Sleep for twelve hours
                E
Dream about home

Verse 2:
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I have no place to go

So I drive up to New Mexico
A
Fix my eyes in the rearview when I cross the stateline
E
And I panic I guess

And although it's quite late

I take the first exit to 128
A                                              E
I am coming back to Midland and I hope you won't mind

Polaroids of the two of us
Am              B
Scattered on the passenger seat
              E           Am  B
I drive slowly and eat early
                      E