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Town Drunk by Love and Theft
Town Drunk
Tuning: E A D G B E
Capo: 2nd fret
[Intro]
G C G C
[Verse 1]
G C
She used to come over to my house, she only lived a few miles away
G C
I never knew why but my mama said if she wanted she could stay
D C
A pretty little girl who fought like a boy but she wanted to hold my hand
D C
In a little blue dress that she always wore, yeah, I might have been her only friend
[Instrumental]
G C
[Verse 2]
G C
I remember that summer like yesterday, she used to hang around all the time
G C
Down by the creek we would always play and tell secrets by the porch light
D C
Shy as a bird and timid as a flower I wondered where she grew up
D C G
I never really thought that much about it but everybody said her daddy was the town drunk
[Chorus]
C G Em D C
Broken like a bottle, running from the only home she ever had
G D
Tangled in the talk behind her back
C G Em D Am
Yeah, he thought she was nothin', growing like a weed on the wrong side of the tracks
C G C
How could anyone not love a girl like that?
[Verse 3]
G C
One afternoon in the middle of town, I saw her daddy sleeping on a bench
G C
So I walked up to him and introduced myself, said his daughter was my best friend
D C
He looked at me like he didn't care and he asked me for a couple bucks
D C G
Right then I decided I'd look after that pretty little girl whose daddy was the town drunk
[Chorus]
C G Em D C
Broken like a bottle, running from the only home she ever had
G D
Tangled in the talk behind her back
C G Em D Am
Yeah, he thought she was nothin', growing like a weed on the wrong side of the tracks
C C G D
How could anyone not love a girl like that?
C G D
girl like that?
[Chorus]
C G Em D C
Broken like a bottle, running from the only home she ever had
G D
Tangled in the talk behind her back
C G Em D Am
Yeah, he thought she was nothin', growing like a weed on the wrong side of the tracks
C G C
How could anyone not love a girl like that?
G C
girl like that?
[Verse 4]
G C
Several years later, I read in the paper that her daddy had passed away
G C
I was holdin' her hand, she had the baby in the other there was really nothin' I could say
D C
She looked at me and I gave her a kiss, all that really mattered was the three of us
D C
Nobody thought it would all work out for that pretty little girl whose daddy was the town drunk
G
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