Eric Church – Mistress Named Music Medley Boston (Guitar)

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I still remember Miss Bessie singing

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Black, wrinkled fingers on ivory keys

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Just five years old, my church shoes a-dangling

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Yeah, she's long gone and I'm still chasing this song

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With a guitar full of freedom and a head full of lines

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That nightlife full of demons has been a hell of a ride

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I got a crazy heart, but I was born to lose it

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 Married to a dream with a mistress named music

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No hope and squarely solitary

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Enough whiskey and Coke, boys, to get me in a bind

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Amps juiced, the whole damn block could hear me

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Even that cop car rolling past

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By the time they hit the front door

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I was out the back

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With a guitar full of freedom and a head full of lines

      G                D                 Em         D
That nightlife full of demons has been a hell of a ride

D              G               Cadd9        G
I got a crazy heart, but I was born to lose it

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 Married to a dream with a mistress named music

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White calloused fingers on bronze and nylon

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These same old boots are still tapping time

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Not quite the buzz I used to tie on

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But 'til I'm gone, I'll be chasing this song

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Just about a year ago, I set out on the road

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Seekin' my fame and fortune, and looking for a pot of gold

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Things got bad, things got worse, I guess you know the tune

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Oh Lord, stuck in Lodi again

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I've got sunshine on a cloudy day

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And when it's cold outside, I've got the month of May

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I guess you say,

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What can make me feel this way?

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My girl...

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Talkin' 'bout my girl

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Sunshine go away today, I don't feel much like dancin'.

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Some man's gone, he's tried to run my life, I don't what he's askin'.

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How much does it cost? (I'll buy it)

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The time is all we've lost (I'll try it)

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He can't even run his own life,

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I'll be damned if he'll run mine, Sunshine.

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Slip sliding away, slip sliding away

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You know the nearer your destination, the more you slip sliding away

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I know a man, he came from my hometown

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He wore his passion for his woman like a thorny crown

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He said Dolores, I live in fear

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My love for you so overpowering, I'm afraid that I will disappear

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Slip sliding away, slip sliding away

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You know the nearer your destination, the more you slip sliding away

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It's too late,   to save myself from falling

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I took a chance,  and changed your way of life

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But you misread,  my meaning when I met  you

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Closed the door, and left me blind by the light   Ohhh

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Don't let the sun go down on me

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Although I search myself, it's always someone else I see

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I'd just allow a fragment of your life  to wander free   yea

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But losing everything      is like the sun going down on   me

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Where it began, I can't begin to know it

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But then I know it's going strong

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Was it the spring, and spring became a summer?

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Who'd have believe you'd come along?

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Hands,  touching hands

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Reaching out, touching me, touching you

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Sweet Caroline,   good times never seemed so good

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I'm inclined,   to believe they never would

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Now john at the bar is a friend of mine

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He gets me my drinks for free

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And he's quick with a joke or to light up your smoke

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But there's someplace that he'd rather be

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He says, "bill, i believe this is killing me."

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As the smile ran away from his face

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"well i'm sure that i could be a movie star

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If i could get out of this place"

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La da da     de de Da

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da da     de de Da     da DA

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Sing us a song you’re the piano man

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Sing us a song tonight

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Well we’re all in the mood for a melody

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and you’ve got us feeling all right

      G        D                    G              D
With a guitar full of freedom and a head full of lines

      G                D                 Em         D
That nightlife full of demons has been a hell of a ride

D              G               Cadd9        G
I got a crazy heart, but I was born to lose it

D             G            Em             D
 Married to a dream with a mistress named music