C
Well, I never planned to stay
Even as a kid it seemed too gray
F G
Secretly I’d wait, plotting my escape
Am G C
But a town like this just has a way of keeping you
C
When papa suddenly up and passed away
F G
Mama was never the same and it meant more chores for me
Am G F
There wasn’t time to cry, we still had a farm to run
C
Beaumont Blues #1
C
When I met Savannah Jean we were barely both sixteen
F G
We got to kissing quick, ended up with a kid
Am G C
We were scared a s hell, broke as well, but we married
On the day they closed the factory, they cut us out at three
F G
With only two weeks worth of severance and a hundred heaps of misery
Am G F
I told my wife and little LoraBelle, “Girls, we’ll make do”
Beaumont Blues #2
C E7
My folks got married here, are buried here, and I carry the family name
C F F
I’m proud of what they did, but dammit if I ain’t doomed to do the same
G C
I ain’t doomed to do the same
C
Dear Sheriff Holloway, I never meant to murder Cody White
Am F G
But I saw there, shot him dead, for he had bed my wife
Am G C
I grabbed LoraBelle and bolted east towards Smithville
C
I write you in surrender from the Katy House Motel
F G
Send your boys to drag me back and put me in the darkest cell
Am G F
Those bars won’t feel no different than those city lines did to me
Beaumont Blues #3
C F
I’ll two-step to the chair in dead man’s shoes
Beaumont Blues