------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LIVE OAK - Jason Isbell ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Capo 4 (Am) (Cmaj9) (C) There's a man who walks beside me he is who I used to be, (Dm) (Am7) (Fmaj7) and I wonder if she sees him and confuses him with me (Am) (Cmaj9) (C) And I wonder who she's pining for on nights I'm not around (Fade in) Dm Am7 Fmaj7 Could it be the man who did the things I'm living down Am Cmaj9 C I was rougher than the timber shipping out of Fond du Lac Dm Am7 Fmaj7 When I headed south at seventeen, the sheriff on my back Am Cmaj9 C I'd never held a lover in my arms or in my gaze, Dm Am7 Fmaj7 So I found another victim every couple days Am Cmaj9 C But the night I fell in love with her, I made my weakness known Dm Am7 Fmaj7 To the fighters and the farmers digging dusty fields alone Am Cmaj9 C The jealous innuendos of the lonely-hearted men Dm Am7 Fmaj7 Let me know what kind of country I was sleeping in Am Cmaj9 C Well you couldn't stay a loner on the plains before the war Dm Am7 Fmaj7 When my neighbors took to slightin' me, I had to ask what for Am Cmaj9 C Rumors of my wickedness had reached our little town Dm Am7 Fmaj7 Soon she'd heard about the boys I used to hang around Am Cmaj9 C We'd robbed a great-lakes freighter, killed a couple men aboard Dm Am7 Fmaj7 When I told her, her eyes flickered like the sharp steel of a sword Am Cmaj9 C All the things that she'd suspected, I'd expected her to fear Dm Am7 Fmaj7 Was the truth that drew her to me when I landed here Am Cmaj9 C There's a man who walks beside me he is who I used to be, Dm Am7 Fmaj7 And I wonder if she sees him and confuses him with me Am Cmaj9 C And I wonder who she's pining for on nights I'm not around Dm Am7 Fmaj7 Could it be the man who did the things I'm living down Am Cmaj9 C Dm Am7 Fmaj7 x2 Am Cmaj9 C Well I carved her cross from live oak and her box from short-leaf pine, Dm Am7 Fmaj7 and buried her so deep, she'd touch the water table line Am Cmaj9 C And picked up what I needed and I headed south again Dm Am7 Fmaj7 To myself, I wondered, "Would I ever find another friend" Am Cmaj9 C There's a man who walks beside her, he is who I used to be, Dm Am7 Fmaj7 and I wonder if she sees him and confuses him with me Chords used: Am =x02210 Cmaj9 =020010 C =032010 Dm =x00231 Am7 =002010 Fmaj7 =133210