Jason Isbell – Live Oak (Guitar)

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[Chorus] N.C. There's a man who walks beside me he is who I used to be, N.C. and I wonder if she sees him and confuses him with me N.C. And I wonder who she's pining for on nights I'm not around

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Could it be the man who did the things I'm living down

[Verse 1]

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I was rougher than the timber shipping out of Fond du Lac

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When I headed south at seventeen, the sheriff on my back

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I'd never held a lover in my arms or in my gaze,

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So I found another victim every couple days

[Verse 2]

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But the night I fell in love with her, I made my weakness known

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To the fighters and the farmers digging dusty fields alone

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The jealous innuendos of the lonely-hearted men

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Let me know what kind of country I was sleeping in

[Verse 3]

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Well you couldn't stay a loner on the plains before the war

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When my neighbors took to slightin' me, I had to ask what for

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Rumors of my wickedness had reached our little town

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Soon she'd heard about the boys I used to hang around

[Verse 4]

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We'd robbed a great-lakes freighter, killed a couple men aboard

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When I told her, her eyes flickered like the sharp steel of a sword

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All the things that she'd suspected, I'd expected her to fear

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Was the truth that drew her to me when I landed here

[Chorus]

        Am                     C/B      C
There's a man who walks beside me he is who I used to be,

       Dm            Am7             Fmaj7
And I wonder if she sees him and confuses him with me

        Am                     C/B      C
And I wonder who she's pining for on nights I'm not around

         Dm              Am7               Fmaj7
Could it be the man who did the things I'm living down

[Instrumental] Am C/B C Dm Am7 Fmaj7 (x2) [Verse 5]

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Well I carved her cross from live oak and her box from short-leaf pine,

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And buried her so deep, she'd touch the water table line

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And picked up what I needed and I headed south again

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To myself, I wondered, "Would I ever find another friend"

[Outro]

        Am                         C/B     C
There's a man who walks beside her, he is who I used to be,

       Dm            Am7           Fmaj7
And I wonder if she sees him and confuses him with me