Cairo Il

	  		
 
 

INTRO 
C G F Am Am7/G F C G 
C G F Am Am7/G F C G 


verse 1 
C                                G 
Well a town's a town when you're upside down, 
F                   Am     Am7/G       F      
Lay your bones on a bed, it's that easy 
G                 C    G 
To have a kind of home 

C                       G 
Where the money goes I know too well 
F                     Am       Am7/G       F 
Spreads out like the jobs I've worked so many 
      C                 G 
Hard days don't seem to end 

Pre-Chorus 1 
          Am     Em    F       C 
Well I'm wasting time, wasting time 
      F             C            G 
And I only know one way to go to start again 

       C            G 
Let it roll, let it roll 
         Am           Em 
Down the banks of the Ohio 
         F             C 
When you can't rely on what you make 
    F              G 
To pay the rent on time 

       C      G 
So I'm goin' away, 
     Am          Em 
Down to the fortifio (?) 
   F                 C      G 
Oh way down there in Cairo, IL 
          C 
I'm gonna stay
 


FIDDLE BREAK 
(C) G F Am Am7/G F C G 


verse 2 
     C                       G 
Now what do you say when the bottom falls out, 
F            Am       Am7/G F    
Try to make amends with anybody  
      G              C     G 
That ever caused you pain 

        C                            G 
It's no fault of mine that it should end this way 
F                Am      Am7/G F        
And I wont' apologize to anybody  
       C                  G 
For a thing that I can't change 


Pre-Chorus 2 
                Am       Em          F      C 
See I'm used to bein' alone, used to bein' alone, 
             F             C             G 
See it's the only way that I know how to get to where I'm goin', 


Chorus 
       C            G 
Let it roll, let it roll 
         Am           Em 
Down the banks of the Ohio 
         F             C 
When you can't rely on what you make 
    F              G 
To pay the rent on time 

       C      G 
So I'm goin' away, 
     Am          Em 
Down to the fortifio (?) 
   F                 C      G 
Oh way down there in Cairo, IL 
          C 
I'm gonna stay 


FIDDLE BREAK 
C G F Am Am7/G F C G 
C G F Am Am7/G F C G 


Pre-Chorus 3 
      Am Em     F                 C         
Woah Cairo, you build your levies tall, 
           F              C 
I want to sit beside the water 
    G 
And forget about it all. 


Chorus 
       C            G 
Let it roll, let it roll 
         Am           Em 
Down the banks of the Ohio 
         F             C 
When you can't rely on what you make 
    F              G 
To pay the rent on time 

       C      G 
So I'm goin' away, 
     Am          Em 
Down to the fortifio (?) 
   F                 C      G 
Oh way down there in Cairo, IL 
          F 
I'm gonna stay 


FIDDLE OUTRO 
(F) C G F Am Am7/G F G C