When The Well Runs Dry
Drive-By Truckers
B-Side

Tab by Al Byrne

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There?s a sacrifice you make
          Em
There are people along the way
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When there?s nowhere to run and there?s nowhere to stay
        Am
And the wheels still move
    Em
But won?t slow down
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Even when you?re spinning in the same soft ground
              Am
And there?s a tear in her eye
              Em
Because she?s known you too long
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And she can?t tell the singer from the whorehouse song

         Am
When the well runs dry
        C
There?s nothing left to say
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Just throw up your hands and wail all day
    Am
And everything?s fair
              C
And you don?t like it that way
Dm
Something has to die
         Am
When the well runs dry

          Am
There?s a dancer I used to get
   Em
By giving her cigarettes
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She told me that I hadn?t quite hurt enough yet
     Am
So I let her do me wrong
    Em
But not for very long
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Then I put her in the mirror and I put her in a song

         Am
When the well runs dry
        C
There?s nothing left to say
Dm                      Am
Throw up your hands and wail all day
    Am
And everything?s fair
              C
And you don?t like it that way
Dm
Something has to die
         Am
When the well runs dry

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Sitting here at the top your will is getting weak
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You let my mind get fattened up
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Now I?m quiet and I ain?t supposed to speak
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I?ll speak up when I?ve had enough

  Am
A singer we used to know
   Em
He let himself go
       Dm              Am
Played 15 minutes of a sold out show
    Am
And everybody laughed
       Em
In the aftermath
       Dm
And he never came back
      Am
No he never came back

         Am
When the well runs dry
        C
There?s nothing left to say
Dm                      Am
Throw up your hands and wail all day
    Am
And everything?s fair
              C
And you don?t like it that way
Dm
Something has to die
         Am
When the well runs dry

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