Let Him Roll Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
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[Verse 1]
[C]He's
a wino, tried and true.
[F]Done about everything there is to do.
He [G]worked on freighters, he worked in bars.
He [F]worked on farms,
'n he [C]worked on cars.

[Verse 2]
It was [C]white port, that
put that look in his eye
That [F]grown men get
when they need to cry
And [G]he sat down on the curb to rest
[F]And his head just fell down
[C]on his chest

[Verse 3]
He said [C]"Every single day it gets
A [F]little bit harder to handle and yet"
And he [G]lost the thread
and his mind got cluttered
And the [F]words just rolled off
[C]down in the gutter

[Verse 4]
Well he was [C]elevator man
in a cheap hotel
In ex[F]change for the rent
on a one room cell
He's [G]old in years beyond his time
[F]Thanks to the world, and the [C]white Port wine
[G]So

[Verse 5]
[C]he says "Son,"
he always called me son
[F]He said, "Life for you has just begun"
And he [G]told me a story
that I heard before
How he [F]fell in love with a Dal
[C]las whore

[Verse 6]
Well he could [C]cut through the
years to the very night
When [F]it ended, in a whore house fight
And [G]she turned his last proposal down
[F]In favor of being a [C]girl about
town

[Verse 7]
Now it's been [C]seventeen
years right in line
And [F]he ain't been straight
none of the time
[G]Too many days of fightin' the weather
[F]And too many nights of not[C]
being [G]together[C]

[Interlude 1]
So he died
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[Verse 8]
[C]Well when they went through
his personal affects
[F]In among the stubs from the welfare
checks
[G]Was a crumblin' picture of a girl in a door
[F]An address in Dallas,
[C]and nothin' more

[Verse 9]
[C]The welfare people provided
the priest
[F]A couple from the mission
down the street
Sang [G]Amazing Grace, and no one cried
'Cept [F]some woman in black,
[C]way off to the side

[Verse 10]
[C]We all left and she was standing there
[F]Black veil covering her silver hair
And 'ol [G]One-Eyed John John
said her name was Alice
[F]And she used to be a who[C]re in Dallas
[G]Let him

[Verse 11]
[C]roar, [F]Lor[Em]d let him rol[Dm]l
[G]Bet he's gone to Dallas
Rest [C]his soul[G]
Lord, let him [C]roll, [F]Lord let him[Dm] roar
He [G]always said that heaven
Was [F]just [C]a D[F]all[Em]as[Dm][G]
[C]whore.

[Outro 1]
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