INTRO: Em C G D - Cdim x2 Em C I’ve never been so hungry, G D Cdim Seems like twenty-two years I’ve been looking for a fight Em C Never stayed in school for long, couldn’t keep my patience on G D Cdim Never had the motivation quite to get my timing right PRE–CHORUS 1 + 2: C G (I want my story to begin)/(I want to celebrate my sins) D Em D There’s a time to save up and a time to C G Spend I’m to young for the past tense D Cdim Cdim Cdim D#dim F#dim All this worrying about what might have been CHORUS: Em C Should have been a preacher man, let the good book show me where to G D Cdim Stand in this earthly half-way home Em C Should have been a farmin’ man, teach my boy to plow the land G D Cdim (Em C G D Cdim) Leave this wicked winter just a couple acres greener when I go Em C I’ve never been so thirsty to get my soul right G D Cdim But like a summer bug I’ve been burned by the blinding light Em C Never stayed in church for long, pop’lar peoples ‘n white folks songs G D Cdim Sunday morning never was as real as Friday Night PRE–CHORUS 2 + CHORUS BREAK OVER VERSE CHORDS PRE–CHORUS 3 (one strum each): C G Some day they’ll write my name up on a D Em D Stone and I won’t be there to see it C G D Cdim Cdim Cdim D#dim F#dim Up on Calv’ry calling me I know they’ll say . . . CHORUS x 2, second time a-capella ================================== Joseph Terrell plays the Cdim as follows: x3424x Then slides it up three frets for the D#dim and then slides it up three more for F#dim.
