Let Him Roll Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
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[Verse 1]
[G]Guitar music plays
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[C]Well, he was a wino, tried and true,
[F]he'd done about everything there is to do.
He [G]worked on freighters
and he worked in bars,
he [F]worked on farms
and he worked [C]on cars.
It was that white port
that put that look in his eye
that grown [F]men get when they need to cry.
[G]He sat down on the curb to rest
and [F]his head just fell down on his [C]chest.
He says every single day
it gets just [F]a little bit harder to handle yet.
[G]Then he lost the thread
and his mind got cluttered
[F]and the words just rolled
off [C]down the gutter.
[F]Well, he was [C]an elevator
man in a cheap hotel,
[F]in exchange for the rent on
a one -room [G]cell.
He's old, years beyond his time,
no [Gm]thanks [F]to the world
and the white, poor [C]wine.
So he [F]said, [C]son,
he always called me son,
he [F]said, life for you has just begun.
And he [G]told me a story that
I'd heard before,
how he fell [F]in love with a Dallas [C]ho.
Now he could cut through the
years to the very night,
[F]when it ended in a whorehouse fight
and she [G]turned his last proposal down
in favor of [F]be ing a girl about [C]ten.
Now it's been 17 years right in [G]line,
[F]and he ain't been straight
none of the time.
[G]It's too many days
of fighting the weather,
and too many [F]nights of
not being [C]together.
So we [F]die.[G][F]
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[C]And when they went through
his personal [F]effects,
in among the stubs from
the welfare checks
was [G]a crumbling picture
of a girl and a door
and an ad[F]dress in Dallas
and nothing [C]more.
And the welfare people
provided the priests
and [F]a couple from the mission down the street
sang amaz[G]ing grace and no one cried
except some [F]lady in black way off to [C]the side
and [F]we [C]all left and she's standing there
[F]a black veil covering her
silver hair [G]old one -eyed
John said her name was Alice
[Gm]and she used t[F]o be a whore i[C]n
So let him roar, [F]oh let him roar
I [G]bet he's gone to Dallas, rest his [C]soul[G]
Oh, you let him [C]roar, [F]Lord, let him roar
He [G]always said that heaven
was [F]just a Dallas whore
[C]Yes, you let him roar,
[F]oh, let him roar
I [G]bet he's gone to Dallas, rest his [C]soul
[G]Or you let him [C]roar[F]
Or let him roar
He's [G]always said that heaven
was [F]just a Dallas whore
[C]Or you let him roar
[F]Oh, let him roar
I'll [G]bet he's gone to Dallas, rest his [C]soul
[G]Oh, you let him roa[C]r
[F]Lord, let him roar
He's [G]always said that heaven
was [F]just a Dallas [C]whore you