Chris Knight - Broken Plow guitar chord

Broken Plow

By Chris Knight

CD - The Jealous Kind

Capo 5

Am

Load up the old Dodge truck

Fmaj7

We’ll leave what we can’t sell

Am

Nobody needs a sharecropper’s tools

Fmaj7

or a dust filled well

Am

Take you one last look around

Fmaj7

shed you one last tear

Am

For the broken plow, the broken dreams

Fmaj7 Am

And the life we’re leaving here

Pull the lines down tight

The kids can ride on top of the load

In the cool of the night

They can crawl underneath the tarp

To stay out of the cold

Eleven hundred miles of mountain and sand

We’ll cross ‘em tired and torn

If this beat up truck can carry us

Far enough away from the storm

Chorus:

F C

We’re going to California

G

There’s work there for a man

F C

Too proud to beg for charity

G F

Too poor to make a stand

G

Pray it’s just the land we’re losing

C F

Not my life’s blood that I leave

Am

On the handles of that broken plow

That haunts me in my dreams

A man at a roadside station

Don’t like dealing with my kind

He’d beat me out of my last dollar

And never look me in the eye

I heard ‘em call us Okies

Hell I don’t know what that means

But something tells me the promised land

Ain’t as promising as it seems

Chorus

Bridge: F Am

Fmaj7 Am

This restless road is full of strangers

Fmaj7 Am

They ain’t no stranger than I am

Fmaj7 Am

Hardened faces damn the dust and curse the wind

Am

That drove us from this life and home

Fmaj7 Am

We’ll never know again

Chorus

On the handles of my broken plow that haunts me in my dreams