Angola chords by Turnpike Troubadours

Chords with lyrics

Intro
G+G D MajorD C majorC G+G (x2)

verse 1
      G+G              D MajorD
Well I was born in Bossier Parish, in Northern Louisian?
    C majorC                   G+G
Just a few miles south of Fillmore where my daddy owned some land
  G+G                   D MajorD
And we were thick as a pair of thieves, my buddy Jack and me
C majorC                  G+G
Drinkin? beer and playin? football, fishin? on them creeks

    C majorC                  G+G
Oh but now my life it seems like some old country song you know
    D MajorD                      G+G
Lord I just turned 21, and there?s no chance of parole
    C majorC                G+G
And I'm doin? life for murder, in this penitentiary
    D MajorD               C majorC       G+G
Just a young man in Angola, seen the last of bein? free

Solo
G+G D MajorD C majorC G+G

verse 2
  G+G            D MajorD
We graduated high school, back in ?98
C majorC                   G+G
Tried to live the clean life, but the clean life didn?t pay
    G+G                      D MajorD
Then a friend of a friend of a friend of ours had a way to make ends meet
  C majorC               G+G
And he gave us a crash course, in southern chemistry


    C majorC                  G+G
Oh but now my life it seems like some old country song you know
    D MajorD               C majorC      G+G
Lord I just turned 21, and there?s no chance of parole
    C majorC                G+G
And I'm doin? life for murder, in this penitentiary
    D MajorD               C majorC       G+G
Just a young man in Angola, seen the last of bein? free

Solo
G+G D MajorD C majorC G+G

verse 3
  G+G                 D MajorD
And then one day it happened, and the wild men got the call
   C majorC             G+G
And Jackie he?d been talkin?, with the local law
   G+G                  D MajorD
They stuck him nearly fifty times and dumped him in the creek
     C majorC                      G+G
When the sheriff?s found the body, they pointed their bloody hands at me

       A augmentedA                C majorC
And I got a tattoo on my shoulder, I got a number on my chest
   A augmentedA                    C majorC         D MajorD
The tattoo just says ?Hot?, and that?s the place I love the best, yeah

Outro
G+G D MajorD C majorC G+G (x3)