[Intro]
D Dsus2 Am Em D
[Verse 1]
D
Pictures of the farm before us
Am
Old men in a gospel chorus
Em
Sepia and saddle horses
D
Easy on the reins
D
Eighty-one, a motor-inn
Am
Your momma's seventeen again
Em
She's squinting at at the dusty wind
D
The anger of the plains
[Interlude]
D Dm9 Csus2 G D7sus2 G C D
[Verse 2]
D
You and I were almost nothing
Am
Pray to God the gods were bluffing
Em D
Seventeen ain't old enough to reason with the pain
D Am
How could we expect the two to stay in love,
Em
When neither knew the meaning of
D
The difference between sacred and profane?
[Chorus]
Cadd9 G
I was riding on my mother's hip
D Dsus4 D Dsus2 D
She was shorter than the corn
Cadd9 G
And all the years I took from her
Asus4 Cadd9
Just by being born
[Interlude]
D Dm9 Csus2 G D7sus2 G C D
D Dm9 Csus2 G D7sus2 G C D
[Verse 3]
D
I didn't mean to break the cycle
Am
At seventeen, I went by Michael
Em D
No one ever called me by my own name anyway
D
Five full generations living
Am Em
All these expectations giving way to one
D
So late to have a baby on the way
[Chorus]
Cadd9 G
You were riding on your mother's hip
D Dsus4 D Dsus2 D
She was shorter than the corn
Cadd9 G
And all the years you took from her
Asus4 Cadd9
Just by being born
[Outro]
D Am Em D
(repeat)
[Chords]
[Interlude]
D Dsus2 Dsus4 Cadd9 Am G Asus4 Em D Dm9 Csus2 G D7sus2 C
e|-2----0-----3-----3---0---3---0----0--|--2----0-----3----3---5----0----|
B|-3----3-----3-----3---1---3---3----0--|--3----6-----3----3---5----1----|
G|-2----2-----2-----0---2---0---2----0--|--2----5-----5----4---5----0----|
D|-0----0-----0-----2---2---0---2----2--|-------0-------------------2----|
A|-0----0-----0-----3---0---5--------2--|--------------------------------|
D|-0----0-----0-------------5--------2--|--------------------------------|
The Em chords are typically hammered on, necessitating the drop D tuning, although
the song can easily be modified to play in standard tuning, which Jason tends to do.