• Song:

    The Company I Keep

  • Artist:

    Drive-by Truckers

  • Album:

    Pizza Deliverance

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THE COMPANY I KEEP

Intro:
Cadd9, G

G           D                Cadd9   G
My Mama told me, your life is such a wreck
Cadd9                                        G
   Your dumber than dogshit is what my Daddy said
Cadd9                         G             Cadd9
I was just thirteen when they showed me the door
G            D                 Cadd9         G
I keep their picture but don't look at it no more


G            D                 Cadd9         G
My first wife told me, you need to get a life
Cadd9                                G
My third wife told me to get another wife
Cadd9                             G                Cadd9
I brought a bottle and the van's parked right outside the door
G            D                 Cadd9         G
So come on darling, if you want to be number 4


Cadd9                 G
Sometimes I feel like shit
Cadd9                      D
Sometimes it ain't half of it
Cadd9                     G               Cadd9
Sometimes I'm so high I'm scared to go to sleep
G             D              Cadd9     G
Sometimes I'm lower than the company I keep


G           D                Cadd9   G
Ain't held down no job since 1984
Cadd9                          G
I get by holding up convenience stores
Cadd9           G             Cadd9
I get by on liquor, guns and luck
G            D                 Cadd9         G
But I'm scared to death which one might run out first

Cadd9                 G
Sometimes I feel like shit
Cadd9                      D
Sometimes it ain't half of it
Cadd9                     G               Cadd9
Sometimes I'm so high I'm scared to go to sleep
G             D              Cadd9     G
Sometimes I'm lower than the company I keep


G            D             Cadd9     G
I seen my past in everything that I despise
Cadd9                                    G
I've seen my future and I'm scared to close my eyes
Cadd9               G           Cadd9
Is that my ghost that I see in my fears
Cadd9      D             G         Cadd9
Or just my reflection in my Mama's tears

Cadd9                 G
Sometimes I feel like shit
Cadd9                      D
Sometimes it ain't half of it
Cadd9                     G               Cadd9
Sometimes I'm so high I'm scared to go to sleep
G             D              Cadd9     G
Sometimes I'm lower than the company I keep
G             D              Cadd9     G
Sometimes I'm lower than the company I keep
Cadd9                        G
I pray the Lord, my soul to keep
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