Rodney Crowell - Ridin' Out The Storm guitar chord

Ridin' Out the Storm

written by Rodney Crowell

from the album "Fate's Right Hand"

tabbed 7/1/05

INTRO: C

C

The New York City winter comes in cold grey sheets of steel

Am

A numbness in his hands and feet is all that he can feel

F C

Alcohol and sterno turns a doorway to a bed

G7 Am

And the ghost of who he might have been lives on inside his head

In a canyon made of brownstone on a sidewalk icy black

He wanders nearly barefoot with his righteousness intact

A man of man mansions in a cardboard box replete

He lies sleeping with an angel while his heart pretends to beat

CHORUS:

F

The wind blows down on Lonely Street like an ice-pick thru the air

'Midst the Sunday Times and the coffee grinds and the winos in town square

G7 C

Five flights up on Easy Street you know she's safe and warm

G7 Am

Way down low 'neath a foot of snow he's ridin' out the storm

I offered him my winter coat politely he refused

Like an educated man he spoke with words I seldom use

He said I don't need pity for these choices are my own

He bowed his head just slightly and quietly moved along

CHORUS

SOLO

It's not like he's a victim of the homeless life he stalks

Nor helpless to get back across the fine line that he walks

Riding out the storm means yesterday's already spent

Tomorrow don't mean nothing it won't even make a dent

CHORUS

C Am

(Ridin' out, ridin' out, ridin' out) ooh-ooh-oooh

C Am

(Ridin' out, ridin' out, ridin' out) ooh-ooh-ooh

(repeat this for a while, then just play chords, and finally just play C)