Intro same as verse
[Verse 1]
Am C
I didn't want to shoot that man but he heard that I was fast.
Gsus D
You know that liquor will give ya em courage to put a man to the ground.
Am C Gsus D
But nobody saw and couldn't claim no self defense so I took off with the morning sun running from my sins.
Am C. Gsus D
Ended up in every town where all the bad men go and they've been runnin just like me. Someone always knows.
Am C Gsus
They say you're the man that shot that boy wasn't his turn to dance. So there I die in some street that night
D
no never had a chance.
[Bridge builds on D]
[Chorus 1]
Am Gsus
I never meant to be a bad man. I just had a fast hand.
D
Going to be nothing in hell I haven't lived through here.
Am Gsus
I'm just going to walk out and wish you all goodnight.
D
I never meant to be a bad man.
C# G#
I just had a fast hand.
[Verse 2]
Am C
I ended up in Forth Worth cause no one knows me here.
Gsus D
Time has a funny way of taking away the years.
Am C
I don't mind the changes or the age that's in my face.
Gsus builds bridge as well
Because there is a piece of my soul in every man I've killed in every godforsaken place.
[Chorus 2]
Am
I never meant to be a bad man.
Gsus
I just had a fast hand.
D
Ain't going to be nothing in hell I haven't lived through here.
Am Gsus
I'm just going to walk out yeah tonight I'll save your life.
D
I never meant to be a bad man.
C# G#
I just had a fast hand.
Am once outro
I didn't want to shoot that man but he heard that I was fast.