Hayes Carll - Arkansas Blues guitar chord

Arkansas Blues

Hayes Carll

Capo 3

G C

Well I hide behind my guitar like a sparrow in the night

G D

Hopin' I might fly away anew

G C

Cause they'll love you when you're wrong and then leave you when you're right

G D

Tell me baby, what's a boy to do

G C

Well I came to town a stranger not knowin' how to act

G D

Figured I'd hang out and just get found

G C

Made me some new friends, they climbed way on up my back

G D

Been gone so long they ain't comin' down

Chorus 1:

C

You can kiss the sky good morning

G

You can say your prayers at night

G C

Hide your soul way down in your shoes

C

But it's the same old scene

G G/F# Em

Borrowed love and faded dreams

C D G

And you just can't run from those Arkansas blues

Well time is playin' tricks on me, makes me think I'm movin' fast

I don't think I'm movin at all

And every stranger's face I see reminds me of the past

Come on big and leave you feelin' small

So I took to drinkin' liquor on the other side of town

Way up in those woods, beside the moon

Where every graceful dream I had got lost without a sound

Tell you what, I can't leave this place too soon

Chorus 2:

And it don't take no rhyme or reason

It don't make no sense at all

Just one of those things that you don't choose

It's the same old scene

Broken hearts and busted strings

And you just can't run from those Arkansas blues

Well everybody's askin' questions 'out whose side you're on

I don't see how it matters much to me

And all these midnight celebrations that are ended by the dawn

Leave you feelin' low as you can be

So I'm leavin' town this morning, gonna lighten up my load

See if I can't lose what I have found

And it's one drink for the memories and one kiss for the road

Aw, look out, I believe I'm Texas bound

Chorus 3:

California, Oklahoma

Arizona, Tennessee

I've been all around this land to pay my dues

High, low and right behind me

Wherever I go they find me

And I just can't run from those Arkansas blues