Capo on third E5 A5 Someone left a child and did not even care E5 B5 Before the first shots of the battle here had even pierced the air E5 A5 Yes, they run now like them children to those arms of mother earth E5 B5 Trying to pretend as if there was a day before their very birth CHORUS B5 A5 But, me I just grab these ropes that me and mine have left behind C5 B5 And I stare up to that mountain that I know I got to climb E5 A5 I keep towin that line Mmmmmm E5 B5 I keep towin that line Mmmmmm E5 A5 But,down in basements choked with smoke child of the past E5 B5 All them dreams come up for air round here but they can only gasp E5 A5 All them old men they sit staring as life slips out of their grips E5 B5 Only to fall and disappear beyond their cracked old fingertips REPEAT CHORUS BREAK E5 / A5 / E5 / B5 / B5 / A5 / C5 / B5 E5 A5 I keep towin that line Mmmmmm E5 B5 I keep towin that line Mmmmmm E5 A5 But down in ditches by that road I call my own E5 B5 All of you come a cussin' now all and all just throwing stones E5 A5 Yes they're big men now to settle down and life's so stale and cold E5 B5 As if I could spend my life the way they do just as they're told B5 A5 So if you should find me living low when the miles have passed me by C5 B5 And it seems that I have left now all that I could love behind E5 A5 I'm just towin that line Mmmmmm E5 B5 I'm just towin that line Mmmmmm
