Cody Jinks – David (Guitar)

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My friend David was a good kid

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He had my back I always knew he did

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And he was different than most, and maybe I was too

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And hanging out with the in crowd just wasn't our thing

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There was a whole lot more than we could see on these plains

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Well some people just seem to get stuck, and hang around

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It's college or trade school for those with the means

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There's never been any small town for those in between

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Yeah the poor folks they go to work or they go to war

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I did fifteen hundreds days in the corps

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when I got back nothin looked the same anymore

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I got on with the local police, it just seemed to fit

            Am
Things had changed

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By then David had a daughter and a son

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and a rap sheet to prove all the time that he'd done

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He was just a burned out beat down shell, of my old friend

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And on a three day binge he was speeding through town,

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and I bumped the wailers to try and slow him down

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He didn't know that it was me, and he took off

              Am
Oh how things change

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And I found his truck in the floodplain upside down

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It was a hell of a rain I don't know if he'd drowned,

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or if he died on impact. It must have rolled three times

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Yeah the only thing to make matters worse

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is that his mama's a late night ER nurse

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And he was DOA. She just about lost her mind

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David's wife drops by every once in a while,

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and childhood stories always make her smile,

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but somehow we always go back to that day...

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When I found his truck in the floodplain upside down

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It was a hell of a rain I don't know if he'd drowned,

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or if he died on impact. It must have rolled three times

              C             G
Yeah the only thing to make matters worse

            D                   Em D
is that his mama's a late night ER nurse

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And he was DOA. She just about lost her mind

             Am
Ain't it the times