Transcribed by: J-Heck Note: This is mostly from their live version on "A Little Bit Faster and A Little Bit Worse" but there's a tiny bit of my own arrangement going on. Guitarists may want to use a capo at the third fret (and adjust chords accordingly), otherwise - It should be played on a Tenor Banjo or Tenor Guitar. ;) The intro is half a verse (to the first D7). G5 C5 Someone left a child and did not even care G5 D5 Before the first shots of the battle here had even pierced the air G5 C5 Yes, they run now like them children to those arms of mother earth G5 D5 D5 Trying to pretend as if there was a day before their very birth D5 D5 C5 C5 But me, I just grab these ropes that me and mine have left behind C5 C5 D5 D5 And I stare up to that mountain that I know I got to climb G5 C5 C5 I keep towin' that line - Mm-mmm-mm-mmmm G5 D5 D5 I keep towin' that line - Mm-mmm-mmmm D5 D5 C5 C5 C5 C5 D5 D5 G5 C5 Well down in basements choked with smoke child of the past G5 D5 All them dreams come up for air round here but they can only gasp G5 C5 All them old men they sit staring as life slips out from their grips G5 D5 D5 Only to fall and disappear beyond their cracked old fingertips D5 D5 C5 C5 But me, I just grab these ropes me and mine have left behind C5 C5 D5 D5 And I stare up to that daemon that I know has got to die G5 C5 C5 I keep towin' that line - Mm-mmm-mm-mmmm G5 D5 D5 I keep towin' that line - Mm-mmm-mmmm D5 D5 C5 C5 C5 C5 D5 D5 SOLO: G5 / C5 / G5 / D5 D5 D5 D5 C5 C5 C5 C5 D5 D5 G5 C5 C5 I keep towin' that line - Mm-mmm-mm-mmmm G5 D5 D5 I keep towin' that line - Mm-mmm-mmmm D5 D5 C5 C5 C5 C5 D5 D5 G5 C5 But down in ditches by that road I call my own G5 D5 All of you come up cussin' now and all just throwing stones G5 C5 Yes they're big men now to settle down and life's so stale and cold G5 D5 D5 As if I could ever do the way they do just as they're told D5 D5 C5 C5 So if you should find me living low when the miles have passed me by C5 C5 D5 D5 And it seems that I have left now all that I could love behind G5 C5 C5 I'm just towin' that line - Mm-mmm-mm-mmmm G5 D5 D5 I'm just towin' that line - Mm-mmm-mmmm G5 C5 C5 I'm just towin' that line - Mm-mmm-mm-mmmm G5 D5 D5 I'm just towin' that line - Mm-mmm-mmmm D5 D5 C5 C5 C5 C5 D5 D5
