Slaid Cleaves

Call It Sleep

Slaid Cleaves

Written by Chris Montgomery
Guitar chords Easy level
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CAPO: 3 

Intro: C  ~  Am  F 

         C                  ~ 
You're a working man with a welder's tan 
  Am                F 
A sky blue ford you bought second hand 
    C                    ~ 
You drive on down to the factory 
    Am                              F 
You drive on down because it's your job you see 


C                       ~ 
Carry your thermos underneath your arm 
       Am                               F 
Little coffee and bourbon will help you through the morn 
          C                         ~ 
You crack wise with the boys, so it don't bring you down 
Am                         F 
Time ain't nothing but the world spinning round 


    G 
You call it sleep 
          F 
There's a car out on the four lane 
    G 
You call it sleep 
F 
Rain on the window pane 
G          
Call it sleep 
     F 
It's all the same 


    C                        ~ 
You stop off down at the Palomino Club 
    Am               F 
The neon sign says, "We've Got Your Bud" 
       C                         ~ 
It's a cinderblock building on a gravel parking lot 
     Am                          F 
It's Friday night, you're out to spend every cent you got 


       C                      ~ 
So you dance the floor with a Mexican girl 
          Am                     F 
She's got whiskey on her breath, smoke in her curls 
C                            ~ 
Hands holding cigarettes and faces you don't know 
    Am                        F 
You sit at the bar until it's time to go 

 
    G 
You call it sleep 
          F 
There's a car out on the four lane 
    G 
You call it sleep 
F 
Rain on the window pane 
G          
Call it sleep 
     F 
It's all the same 


Instrumental: C  ~  Am  F   C  ~  Am  F 


    C                      ~ 
The morning air feels like mud over your eyes 
    Am                      F 
The sun coming up is just a sixty watt light 
      C                   ~ 
Maybe leave this town and leave this life 
Am                      F 
Get in your car and you start to drive 


        C                        ~ 
There's boarded up buildings and places you've never been 
Am                          F 
Cars on the interstate that never seem to end 
   C                       ~ 
It all flies away with the wave of your hand 
     Am               F 
Like birds over water trying to find land 


    G 
You call it sleep 
          F 
There's a car out on the four lane 
    G 
You call it sleep 
F 
Rain on the window pane 
G          
Call it sleep 
     F               C  ~  Am  F 
It's all the same 
         C                  ~ 
You're a working man with a welder's tan 
  Am                F 
A sky blue ford you bought second hand 
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