Jackie Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[D][G][D][G][Bm][D][A][G]
[Bm][D][A][G]

[Verse 1]
Half [D]a section
in the short grass at the foot of the plains
[A]Grows broomweed in the dry times,
[G]ragweed when it rains
[D]It's all she's got left that the
lawyers don't claim
Jackie [A]does her damn best,
never [G]one to complain
[Bm][D][A]

[Verse 2]
[G]
She's been [D]green breaking horses
when she's home from the road
[A]Waiting on dispatch to [G]find her a load
She leased [D]all but the trap,
ponies can't graze a thing
Another [A]bobtail of coastal ought to [G]last
them 'til spring
[Bm][A][D][A][G]

[Verse 3]
There were [D]pitchers on the tables
and kids running 'round
[A]Four generations of a [G]blinking light town
It was the [D]Cotton Eyed Joe or
maybe just the right glance
She got to [A]going with Randy
at the [G]Friday night [D]dance[G]

[Verse 4]
I [Bm]just got two rules,
if my [D]conscience be known
[A]Don't lie to me,
don't bring [G]me nothing home
[Bm]Faithful's a nice word
[D]in Sunday school class
[A]Life's just too crazy for [G]that[Bm]
[D]

[Interlude 1]
[A][G][Bm][A][D]
[A][G]

[Verse 5]
Randy [D]says not to worry,
he'll feed while she's gone
She's [A]got the Freightliner idling
half [G]up on his lawn
He [D]don't like her driving
when the northers come blue
But if the [A]horses went hungry Lord
[G]knows what she'd do
'Round [D]Christmas up the Caprock you can
see all the towns
[A]And the courthouses lit up
for [G]ten miles around
It's a [D]magical time to
be traveling the roads
Watch the [A]country roll by
[G]in the halogens' glow
[D][G]

[Verse 6]
I [Bm]just got two rules,
if my [D]conscience be known
[A]Don't lie to me,
don't bring [G]me nothing home
[D]Faith[Bm] ful's a nice word
[D]in Sunday school class
[A]Life's just too crazy for [G]that[Bm]
[D]

[Interlude 2]
[A][G][D][Bm][D]
[A][G][D][G]
She [D]jack

[Verse 7]
knifed on black ice with
an oversized load
There's a [A]white cross in the borrow
ditch where she [G]went off the road
She wasn't [D]going that fast,
the responders all say
How [A]it ended that bad,
[G]we can wonder all day

[Verse 8]
I [Bm]just got two rules,
if my [D]conscience be known
[A]Don't lie to me,
don't bring [G]me nothing [D]home
[Bm]Faithful's a nice word
[D]in Sunday school class
[A]Life's just too short for all [G]that

[Verse 9]
I [Bm]just got two rules,
if my [D]conscience be known
[A]Don't lie to me,
don't bring [G]me nothing home
[D]Faithful's [Bm]a nice word
[D]in Sunday school class
[A]Life's just too short for all tha[G]t
[A]Life's just too short for all [G]that
For all [Bm]that

[Outro 1]
[D][A][G][Bm][D][A]
[G]
[Bm][A][Bm][D][A][G][D][Bm]
[D][A]