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Thrift Store Suitcase by The Mulligan Brothers

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Key: G

Intro:

G C
G C
G C
C G


Verse 1:
G              D                     C
I woke up this morning and wanted to throw myself away
         G                   D                 C
Tried to sell my soul but it turns out it just ain't worth much these days
    G                   D            C
The sun cut through the curtains and awoke me from a sleep
   G                      D               C
My dreams cut through the daytime and the sour through the sweet


Pre-Chorus 1:
        G               D                C                   G
And the papers came and said today would be like every other day
    G                D                      C
And I just could not go back home this way

Chorus 1:
        G            D            C
Now I'm sitting on a thrift store suitcase
      G            C
Not a nickel on my name
     G           D            C
With holes in my heart and in both of my shoes
     G            C
Just waiting on a train
    G       D       C                            G                  C
The old man over my shoulder says you'll have to find another way I fear
   G        D        C
To run from all your blues boy
               D                        G
There ain't no train that comes through here


Verse 2:
    G                  D             C
The old man looks like Jesus, says I get that all the time
         G                  D                C                G
But if I were I'd leave the coast and throw away my cardboard sign
        G                D                    C
He said I looked like an old friend he'd lost somewhere down the line
            G                        D                              C
And that if I were his friend and if he were the Lord he'd turn the ocean into wine


Pre-Chorus 2:
                G              D                    C
He said I had a family down in New Orleans that just lived beyond my means
  G                   D                      C
I thought I’d just go out and find my scene


Chorus 2:
        G            D            C
Now I'm sitting on a thrift store suitcase
      G            C
Not a nickel on my name
     G           D            C
With holes in my heart and in both of my shoes
     D            G
Just waiting on a train
        G         D         C              G               C
You can watch the sun chase off the moon a million times I fear
           G        D        C
Before you run from all your blues boy
         D                     G
Ain't no train been through in years


Bridge:
C
Amazing grace, no matter just how sweet the sound may be
             G                  D           C
Might save a wretch but not the chronically unsatisfied like me
        G               D
When my suitcase washes up to shore
          C                       G
You might find what I was looking for
    G               D
But I don't need it anymore
D
I don't need this anymore


Chorus 3:
      G            D            C
I was sitting on a thrift store suitcase
      G            C
Not a nickel on my name
     G           D            C
With holes in my heart and in both of my shoes
     D            G
Just waiting on a train
        G               D       C
Old man says you oughta go back home boy
               G                   C
Before we both catch our death out here
       G              D     C              D                        G
I know that'll be the day I catch the only train that comes through here


Outro:
        C  G               G         D     C
He said go home. all these days turn in to years
             G   D       C                                       G     D C
Listen to an old man who knows that you can't get back home from here
                        G     D C
You can't get home from here
                        G     D C
You can't get home from here
                        G     D C
You can't get home from here
                        G
You can't get home from here