Transcribed by: J-Heck

Note: This is mostly from their live version on "A Little Bit Faster and A Little Bit 
Worse" but there's a tiny bit of my own arrangement going on.
Guitarists may want to use a capo at the third fret (and adjust chords accordingly), 
otherwise - It should be played on a Tenor Banjo or Tenor Guitar. ;)
The intro is half a verse (to the first D7).

G5                      C5
Someone left a child and did not even care
           G5                                 D5
Before the first shots of the battle here had even pierced the air
          G5                                  C5
Yes, they run now like them children to those arms of mother earth
          G5                              D5                    D5
Trying to pretend as if there was a day before their very birth
        D5                 D5                C5               C5
But me, I just grab these ropes that me and mine have left behind
      C5               C5             D5                D5
And I stare up to that mountain that I know I got to climb

                   G5               C5     C5
I keep towin' that line - Mm-mmm-mm-mmmm
                   G5            D5     D5
I keep towin' that line - Mm-mmm-mmmm

D5 D5 C5 C5 C5 C5 D5 D5

G5                                 C5
Well down in basements choked with smoke child of the past
         G5                                    D5
All them dreams come up for air round here but they can only gasp
         G5                               C5
All them old men they sit staring as life slips out from their grips
        G5                              D5                 D5
Only to fall and disappear beyond their cracked old fingertips
        D5                 D5           C5                C5
But me, I just grab these ropes me and mine have left behind
      C5               C5           D5               D5
And I stare up to that daemon that I know has got to die

                   G5               C5     C5
I keep towin' that line - Mm-mmm-mm-mmmm
                   G5            D5     D5
I keep towin' that line - Mm-mmm-mmmm

D5 D5 C5 C5 C5 C5 D5 D5

SOLO: G5 / C5 / G5 / D5 D5 D5 D5
C5 C5 C5 C5 D5 D5

                   G5               C5     C5
I keep towin' that line - Mm-mmm-mm-mmmm
                   G5            D5     D5
I keep towin' that line - Mm-mmm-mmmm

D5 D5 C5 C5 C5 C5 D5 D5

G5                          C5
But down in ditches by that road I call my own
       G5                          D5
All of you come up cussin' now and all just throwing stones
            G5                             C5
Yes they're big men now to settle down and life's so stale and cold
      G5                           D5                  D5
As if I could ever do the way they do just as they're told
                 D5              D5           C5                
    C5
So if you should find me living low when the miles have passed me by
       C5                C5               D5            D5
And it seems that I have left now all that I could love behind

                     G5               C5     C5
I'm just towin' that line - Mm-mmm-mm-mmmm
                     G5            D5     D5
I'm just towin' that line - Mm-mmm-mmmm
                     G5               C5     C5
I'm just towin' that line - Mm-mmm-mm-mmmm
                     G5            D5     D5
I'm just towin' that line - Mm-mmm-mmmm

D5 D5 C5 C5 C5 C5 D5 D5