Car Wreck

	  		

C                F 
He grew up in a one-horse town 
G                                C               G 
Wasn't much to do since all them bars had closed down 
C                                         F 
He'd stare up to the stars sometimes when no one was around 
 G                        C 
And he dreamed of getting out 

      F                                       G 
So he bought himself a pick-up truck that was covered up in rust 
           F                                  G 
He found a buddy for of shotgun seat that was someone he could trust 
         C            C/B             Am 
And they hit the gas, headed west out to the setting sun 
F                 G                  C 
When the dust had cleared, they were gone. 


     F                                     G 
Well leaving just came natural, that's the way it seemed to him 
          F                            G 
He'd been doing it so long, that's the way he'd always been 
            C                C/B                 Am 
And you can find him in some hotel room with the television on 
 C          C/B            Am 
He might be high and he'll probably ramble on 
        C             C/B                    Am 
You can laugh beneath fluorescent lights and drink until the dawn 
           F                 G                                 C 
But in the mornin'....in the mornin' when you wake up he'll be gone. 


C                     F 
So he met a girl in a town along the way 
        G                          C                   G 
She had beautiful brown eyes and a place that he could stay 
C                           F 
So he fell in love, and she fell in love in kind 
 G                        C                  G 
It was so perfect that of course he lost his mind. 

   F                        G 
He snuck of the kitchen one day before the dawn 
 F                           G 
She called out after him and ran across the lawn 
       C                        C/B 
And he said some things that he didn't mean 
          Am 
That he'd best be travelin' on 
F             G                C 
She shed some tears and he was gone. 


     F                                     G 
Well leaving just came natural, that's the way it seemed to him 
          F                            G 
He'd been doing it so long, that's the way he'd always been 
            C                C/B                 Am 
And you can find him in some hotel room with the television on 
 C          C/B            Am 
He might be high and he'll probably ramble on 
        C             C/B                    Am 
You can laugh beneath fluorescent lights and drink until the dawn 
           F                 G                                 C 
But in the mornin'....in the mornin' when you wake up he'll be gone. 


C                             F 
Eighteen years later, fifteen-hundred miles from home 
 G                                          C                 G 
He can't shake her from his mind though the whiskey soaks his bones 
  C                                 F 
He heads out on a back-roads in the middle of the night 
 G                                 C                     G 
Head up to the meadow, you know he timed that curve just right 
         F                              G 
But some bridges you cross over but the rest you've got to burn 
   F                                     G 
He may have lost the road the road but I know he made his turn 

          C                   C/B          Am 
And as we pulled him from the wreckage, I promised him a song 
F          G                 C 
Cuz it was clear that he was gone. 


     F                                     G 
Well leaving just came natural, that's the way it seemed to him 
          F                            G 
He'd been doing it so long, that's the way he'd always been 
            C                C/B                 Am 
And you can find him in some hotel room with the television on 
 C          C/B            Am 
He might be high and he'll probably ramble on 
        C             C/B                    Am 
You can laugh beneath fluorescent lights and drink until the dawn 

           F                 G                                 C 
But in the mornin'....in the mornin' when you wake up he'll be gone.