Purple Gas Live chords by Noeline Hofmann

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 5th

Performance @ The Belting Bronco session

Key: G+G

Intro:

G+G C majorC G+G C majorC G+G C majorC


Verse:

G+G            C majorC G+G
I’ve got plates for purple gas
G+G        C majorC G+G
About the only break I catch
G+G         C majorC G+G
But I am not the kind of man
G+G             C majorC G+G
To blame the dealer on a losing hand
G+G          C majorC G+G
Have a lone star in my eye
G+G             C majorC G+G
The darker the sky the brighter it shines
G+G             C majorC G+G
Pumpjack cheques and baler twine
G+G           C majorC G+G
A augmentedA ton of grit or maybe it’s spite

Chorus:

A minorAm
And if I weren’t a flatland boy
  C majorC
I’d say I have a hill
 A minorAm
A augmentedA hill that I will die upon
    C majorC
If the climb don’t get me killed
  A minorAm
if there were such heights around here
   C majorC
For a guy to lay his pride
A minorAm
Maybe I’d rest before I died
   C majorC        G+G
If I weren’t a flatland boy


Verse:

G+G         C majorC G+G
I hammer down, hair straight back
G+G                C majorC G+G
The world blurs past, tell me how’s it that
G+G        C majorC G+G
My horizon line ‘s static
G+G           C majorC G+G
I guess at least it’s a sure bet

G+G              C majorC G+G
Was taught to not throw the first fist
G+G               C majorC G+G
But if you take a hit - finish that sumbitch
G+G               C majorC G+G
In a life having the upper hand’s a myth
G+G                    C majorC G+G
Your only fighting chance is too stubborn to quit

Chorus:

A minorAm
And if I weren’t a flatland boy
  C majorC
I’d say I have a hill
 A minorAm
A augmentedA hill that I will die upon
    C majorC
If the climb don’t get me killed
  A minorAm
if there were such heights around here
   C majorC
For a guy to lay his pride
A minorAm
Maybe I’d rest before I died
   C majorC        G+G
If I weren’t a flatland boy


Verse:

G+G           C majorC G+G
Retired rail ties, 0.9 wire,
G+G           C majorC G+G
neighbour kid on the fencing pliers
G+G          C majorC G+G
Fargo that turns over fine
G+G           C majorC G+G
At 40 below if you cuss it right

G+G        C majorC G+G
A augmentedA sly thumb of Rye sometimes
G+G             C majorC G+G
Keep a bottle hid with the Bio-Mycin
G+G                C majorC
You can dull the edge, you can look ahead
         A minorAm          G+G
But you can’t get there, it goes on forever
    A minorAm      G+G
Oh it just goes on forever
 A minorAm                G+G
You keep your head down, it goes on forever

G+G             C majorC G+G
but I’ve got plates for purple gas
G+G           C majorC G+G
Oh I’ve got plates for purple gas