Biography:
Turnpike Troubadours is an American country music group from Oklahoma founded in 2005.
The band, whose name is derived from the bumpy Oklahoma toll-roads and their hard lived folk singing heroes, are proof that isolation can be the mother of originality. Cutting their teeth in roadside dance halls and honky-tonks has made a serious impact on the band’s musical style, which walks the line between Woody Guthrie and Waylon Jennings. “Bossier City,” the band’s debut album, is testament to the small towns in which they were raised.
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Other songs:
- Every Girl
- 1968
- 7 And 7
- 7 Oaks
- A Little Song
- A Tornado Warning
- Angola
- Austin To Ashes
- Before The Devil Knows Were Dead
- Blue Star
- Bossier City
- Call A Spade A Spade
- Come As You Are
- Diamonds And Gasoline
- Down Here
- Down On Washington
- Easton And Main
- Empty As A Drum
- Evangeline
- Fall Out Of Love
- Gin Smoke And Lies
- Gin Smoke Lies
- Gone Gone Gone
- Good Lord Lorrie
- Kansas City Southern
- Leaving Lonely
- Long Hot Summer Day
- Morgan Street
- Oklahoma Stars
- Old Time Feeling Like Before
- Pay No Rent
- Pipe Bomb Dream
- Quit While Im Ahead
- Ringing In The Year
- Shreveport
- Solid Ground
- Something To Hold On To
- Sunday Morning Paper
- The Bird Hunters
- The Funeral
- The Hard Way
- The Housefire
- The Winding Stair Mountain Blues
- Time Of Day
- Unrung
- Whole Damn Town
- Wrecked
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Quit While I'm Ahead
Turnpike Troubadours
Album: Goodbye Normal Street (2012)
[Verse 1]
E
Well I wont lie and say I didn’t think the good ones all were taken
A E
Since there aint no peaches falling from the tree that I've been shaking
E B7 C#m A
And it's solitary sleeping in this bed that I've been making
E B7 E
Well maybe I should quit while I'm ahead
E
Well my intent was being handed I never laid a hand
A E
And the kindness of my gesture was a good far cry from grand
E B7 C#m A
They were awful well intended, they were all that I can stand
E B7 E
Ah maybe I should quit while I'm ahead
[Chorus]
B7
And now darlin if I called you, could you love me like a kid
E
Could you love me like you loved me way back when you really did
B7
Well Darlin if I called you could you just pick up the phone
A
Lord, I've been dancing with damnation and I'm drinking all alone
E B7 C#m A
And I am busted broke and bent and beat and 'bout halfway to dead
E B7 E E B7 E
Ah maybe I should quit while I'm ahead, oh Lord, well maybe I should quit while I'm ahead
*Instrumental break*
E A E B7 C#m A E B7 E
[Verse 2]
E
Well West Texas in the morning, little darling are you down
A E
Where the color of the country is your sweet eye shade of brown
E B7 C#m A
And if I told you how I felt, well you’d say boy get out of town
E B7 E
Well maybe I should quit while I'm ahead
[Chorus]
B7
Now darlin if I called you, could you love me like a kid
E
Could you love me like you loved me way back when you really did
B7
Well Darlin if I called you would you even talk to me
A
When I am lit up like a star atop your favorite Christmas tree
E B7 C#m A
And I am busted broke and bent and beat and 'bout half way to dead
E B7 E E B7 E
Ah maybe I should quit while im ahead, oh Lord well maybe I should quit while I'm ahead
*Instumental break*
[Chorus]
B7
And now darlin if I called you, could you love me like a kid
E
Could you love me like you loved me way back when you really did
B7
Well Darlin if I called you could you just pick up the phone
A
Lord, I've been dancing with damnation and I'm drinking all alone
E B7 C#m A
And I am busted broke and bent and beat and 'bout halfway to dead
E B7 E E B7 E
Ah maybe I should quit while I'm ahead, oh Lord, well maybe I should quit while I'm ahead
Turnpike Troubadours
Album: Goodbye Normal Street (2012)
[Verse 1]
E
Well I wont lie and say I didn’t think the good ones all were taken
A E
Since there aint no peaches falling from the tree that I've been shaking
E B7 C#m A
And it's solitary sleeping in this bed that I've been making
E B7 E
Well maybe I should quit while I'm ahead
E
Well my intent was being handed I never laid a hand
A E
And the kindness of my gesture was a good far cry from grand
E B7 C#m A
They were awful well intended, they were all that I can stand
E B7 E
Ah maybe I should quit while I'm ahead
[Chorus]
B7
And now darlin if I called you, could you love me like a kid
E
Could you love me like you loved me way back when you really did
B7
Well Darlin if I called you could you just pick up the phone
A
Lord, I've been dancing with damnation and I'm drinking all alone
E B7 C#m A
And I am busted broke and bent and beat and 'bout halfway to dead
E B7 E E B7 E
Ah maybe I should quit while I'm ahead, oh Lord, well maybe I should quit while I'm ahead
*Instrumental break*
E A E B7 C#m A E B7 E
[Verse 2]
E
Well West Texas in the morning, little darling are you down
A E
Where the color of the country is your sweet eye shade of brown
E B7 C#m A
And if I told you how I felt, well you’d say boy get out of town
E B7 E
Well maybe I should quit while I'm ahead
[Chorus]
B7
Now darlin if I called you, could you love me like a kid
E
Could you love me like you loved me way back when you really did
B7
Well Darlin if I called you would you even talk to me
A
When I am lit up like a star atop your favorite Christmas tree
E B7 C#m A
And I am busted broke and bent and beat and 'bout half way to dead
E B7 E E B7 E
Ah maybe I should quit while im ahead, oh Lord well maybe I should quit while I'm ahead
*Instumental break*
[Chorus]
B7
And now darlin if I called you, could you love me like a kid
E
Could you love me like you loved me way back when you really did
B7
Well Darlin if I called you could you just pick up the phone
A
Lord, I've been dancing with damnation and I'm drinking all alone
E B7 C#m A
And I am busted broke and bent and beat and 'bout halfway to dead
E B7 E E B7 E
Ah maybe I should quit while I'm ahead, oh Lord, well maybe I should quit while I'm ahead
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