Looking Back Now chords by Maggie Rose

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard

Difficulty: Novice

Capo on first!

C majorC          G+G             Am-G-F
Looking back now, I probably should've let him run

  A minorAm
He smelled like gin with a hint of her
C majorC
Up 'til then I wasn't sure
   G+G                         D MajorD
But he swaggered by and said "The boys said to tell you hey"
     A minorAm
And I was kicked back in his easy chair
C majorC
Holding a fifth tapping the barrel
      G+G                D MajorD
Of a fresh cleaned steel blue polished up .38
FF
And I was kind of hoping he'd at least look scared
But all he said was "Okay, she was good and you don't dare"

C majorC         G+G           A minorAm FF
Looking back now I probably should've let him run
C majorC      G+G         A minorAm FF
Paybacks are hell where I come from
    C majorC
And any fool should now
     G+G          A minorAm
You don't look a woman in the eye and smile
   FF           D MajorD
When she knows what you've done
     FF
And she's holding whiskey and a gun


     A minorAm
Well the sun shines gray in the prison yard
C majorC
Life to go was going hard
     G+G               D MajorD
When the warden started getting sweet on me
    A minorAm
And he drug me to his room one night
  C majorC
And poured me some 'skey gave me a light
  G+G                  D MajorD
And I smoked slow and waited 'til he was done
  FF
And I thought that was that 'til he got rough and I fought back
And when I grabbed his pistol he laughed and said
"Girl you ain't got the guts"

C majorC         G+G           A minorAm FF
Looking back now I probably should've let him run
C majorC      G+G         A minorAm FF
Paybacks are hell where I come from
    C majorC
And any fool should now
     G+G          A minorAm
You don't look a woman in the eye and smile
   FF           D MajorD
When she knows what you've done
     FF
And she's holding whiskey and a gun

    A minorAm
They're strapping me down and I'm scared to die
   C majorC
Now I ain't the kind of girl to cry
   G+G              D MajorD
But I find myself begging God for mercy
  A minorAm
My hands are cold as I start to slip
C majorC
Sodium theopentol drips
  G+G                D MajorD
The room goes black and I wonder if He heard me

C majorC         G+G           A minorAm FF
Looking back now I probably should've let him run
C majorC         G+G         A minorAm FF
I bet paybacks are hell where I come from
    C majorC
And any fool should now
     G+G          A minorAm
You don't look a woman in the eye and smile
   FF           D MajorD
When she knows what you've done
     FF
And she's holding whiskey and a gun
        C majorC G+G A minorAm FF
Whiskey and a gun
        C majorC G+G A minorAm FF
Whiskey and a gun
        C majorC G+G A minorAm FF