Soft Shoulder

	  		
Intro: Am  G 


Verse: 

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    I don't keep much stuff around 
Am                    G 
    I value my portability 
Am                             G 
    But I will say that I have saved 
Am                                G 
    Every letter you ever wrote to me 

Am                             G 
    The one you left on my windshield 
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    Outside of that little motel 
Am                                   G 
    Is in the pocket of my old gig bag 
Am                                        G 
    From back when life was more soft shelled 


Am                                  F 
   Letters littered with little lewd pictures 
Am                              F 
   Drawn by the ghost of Woody Guthrie 
Am                                 F 
   Who would use your big thick hand 
        G                        F 
Just to draw one or two for me 



Interlude: 

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Verse: 

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    And I think of your letters as love letters 
Am                              G 
    Which is how I think of songs 
Am                                      G 
    In that it is the writing of them 
Am                               G 
    That tends to carry us along 

Am                                        G 
    And I dance to one of your old tunes 
Am                                      G 
    With my true love on our wedding day 
Am                                                     G 
    And your voice sang the way my heart would sing 
Am                                      G 
    If it finally knew just what to say 

 

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   Two people pulled over on the same night 
Am                           F 
   To look up at the same stars 
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   They both found their wheels were spinning in a soft shoulder 
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When they both got back into their cars 

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    And they missed fate's appointed rendezvous 
Am                                    F 
    And then a whole lotta time went by 
Am                                  F 
    And one day they were done worshipping the landscape 
              G 
And they just put down their hands 
    F                       
And moved into the sky 



Interlude: 

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        F 
And they had barely said hello 
                              Am 
And it was time to say goodbye 


Outro: 

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