Hayes Carll – To Keep From Being Found (Guitar Live)

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*I welcome corrections. Not sure the E-D-C decending part is accurate. Thought I would start with basics and add details as I figure them out. [Intro] C [Verse 1]
                  C                      F
I bought myself a tall boy and some cigarettes

             C                                        G
I'm gonna climb into this old truck and get as far as I can get

                   C                            F
Go looking for a motel room, one with an actual key

          C                                      G
The old kind I used to find where you pay by the week
[Verse 2]
                     C                         F
Gonna hang a couple pictures above that rotary phone

                   C                                 G
The one on which I'm not expecting too many calls from home

                  C                       F
Gonna find me a movie, one that makes me laugh

                      C           G               C
Roll around that old TV so I can watch it in the bath
[Chorus]
   F                E     D        C
I can't remember where I had my breakfast

                           C
Probably some old run-down diner

                    G
In a broken border town
But I ain't ever going back to Texas
      C                                   G               C
I'll pay the cost of being lost just to keep from being found
[Solo] C F C G C C F C G C [Verse]
                C
I really like my lawyer

                F
He's a helluva guy

                 C
He spreads the love and he ain't above

                      G
Watching a grown man cry

                  C                          F
I don't have to worry 'bout whose side he's on

              C                G
He'll be my friend until the end

                         C
Or till the money's all gone
[Chorus]
   F                E     D        C
I can't remember where I had my breakfast

                     C
Maybe Southeast Oklahoma

                        G
Or some backwoods Arky town

   F                E     D        C
But I ain't ever going back to Texas

      C                        C
There's a girl down there in Texas

          G              C
Who does not want me around

   F          E     D        C
I ain't ever going back to Texas

      C                                   G               C
I'll pay the cost of being lost just to keep from being found
[Outro] C