Drive-By Truckers – Primer Coat (Guitar)

D Tuning (D-G-C-F-A-D)
Key
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Chords

[Intro] D G Em x2 [Verse 1]
D                                 G    Em                   G
The old man's out by the swimming pool,  he goes there to think

D                 G            Em                    G
He talks on the phone sometimes, hardly mentions a thing

D                      G       Em                           G
Said he needed it for his knees, he used to swim back in school

D             G  Em              A   D
Graduated in 84,   quit drinking in 92
[Interlude] (D) G Em D G Em [Verse 2]
D                            G    Em                       G
He used to call her a basket case   for going on like she did

D                      G          Em                       G
The only girl of a foreman's wife, she'd never let him forget

D                       G          Em                          G
It comes to women and they survive  but when the same comes to men

D                        G     Em             A           D
Someone comes for their babies, something dies there and then
[Interlude] (D) G Em D G Em [Bridge]
A                  G                D                    C
Slinging gravel in parking lots and looking tough on the hood

C                    Bm          A                       G
A girl as plain as a primer coat leaves nothing misunderstood

G                        D                  C                 Em
Her mother and I through trembling lips, a steady hand on his own

D                         G     Em            A               D
The future of every rebel cause, when all the fight in him's gone
[Verse 3]
D                           G     Em                        G
My sister's marrying in the spring and everything will be fine

D                     G    Em                       G
Mama's planning the wedding, Daddy's planning on crying

D                          G           Em                   G
She's slipping out of her apron strings, you best leave him be

D                               G      Em   A          D
He's staring through his own taillights and gathering speed
[Outro] (D) G Em D G Em x3 D