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). Gm Cm Someone left a child and did not even care Gm D Before the first shots of the battle here had even pierced the air Gm Cm Yes, they run now like them children to those arms of mother earth Gm D D7 Trying to pretend as if there was a day before their very birth D D7 C C7 But me, I just grab these ropes that me and mine have left behind Cm Cm7 D D7 And I stare up to that mountain that I know I got to climb Gm Cm Cm7 I keep towin' that line - Mm-mmm-mm-mmmm Gm D D7 I keep towin' that line - Mm-mmm-mmmm D D7 C C7 Cm Cm7 D D7 Gm Cm Well down in basements choked with smoke child of the past Gm D All them dreams come up for air round here but they can only gasp Gm Cm All them old men they sit staring as life slips out from their grips Gm D D7 Only to fall and disappear beyond their cracked old fingertips D D7 C C7 But me, I just grab these ropes me and mine have left behind Cm Cm7 D D7 And I stare up to that daemon that I know has got to die Gm Cm Cm7 I keep towin' that line - Mm-mmm-mm-mmmm Gm D D7 I keep towin' that line - Mm-mmm-mmmm D D7 C C7 Cm Cm7 D D7 SOLO: Gm / Cm / Gm / D D7 D D7 C C7 Cm Cm7 D D7 Gm Cm Cm7 I keep towin' that line - Mm-mmm-mm-mmmm Gm D D7 I keep towin' that line - Mm-mmm-mmmm D D7 C C7 Cm Cm7 D D7 Gm Cm But down in ditches by that road I call my own Gm D All of you come up cussin' now and all just throwing stones Gm Cm Yes they're big men now to settle down and life's so stale and cold Gm D D7 As if I could ever do the way they do just as they're told D D7 C C7 So if you should find me living low when the miles have passed me by Cm Cm7 D D7 And it seems that I have left now all that I could love behind Gm Cm Cm7 I'm just towin' that line - Mm-mmm-mm-mmmm Gm D D7 I'm just towin' that line - Mm-mmm-mmmm Gm Cm Cm7 I'm just towin' that line - Mm-mmm-mm-mmmm Gm D D7 I'm just towin' that line - Mm-mmm-mmmm D D7 C C7 Cm Cm7 D D
