Bleu Edmondson - Comin' Down guitar chord

Comin Down

By Bleu Edmondson

Capo 2

F#m A E

That old Mexican man picks up cans in the roadside dust

G A E

They say that things turned bad for him when the oil booms went bust

He had a life down here in Houston, a good job and a lovin' wife

G A D

But he killed a man in Corpus, now he's serving out his life

F#m A E

A shell of a Mexican man, a number is all he is

G A E

A proud pure blood slowly drained away by the life a convict lives

F#m A E

And life without parole when he told 'em what he'd done

G A D

It's a damn shame what a man can do with an angry soul and an old war gun

Chorus:

A E F#m

Oh, oh can you hear it comin'

D E F#m

Oh, oh can you hear it now

A E F#m

Oh, oh can you hear it comin'

D E F#m

Oh, oh it's comin’ down

After the rigs he got a job at the old A&P

Sacking up bags for rich old men just to save his family

In his broken tongue he'd cuss 'em for the things they never knew

And in his mind he knew the cost of the life he would have to choose

So one hot summer night, with no gulf breeze at all

He kissed his little girls goodnight, told his wife she'd get a call

He walked out of the house that night, through bars no one could see

Skyline blurred by the old man's tears, he's gonna set his family free

Chorus

His kids are all grown up now, they moved away

His wife met some kind of artist man, now she's off in Santa Fe

And I tried to talk to him once, it's hell in here without a friend

But he just turned his back on me and started praying on the beads again

So someday soon, I guess he'll die in here, don't you know that's the way it goes

Cool gray eyes, a broken down face that nobody really knows

But every week he gets a letter and every week tears, they fall like rain

Cause every week there's a postmark and every week it's Santa Fe

Chorus