Jelly Roll – My Last Joint (Guitar)

Em                                C
Smoking weed and say your prayers

E                            E
Liquor stores are everywhere

C                          C
Wonder if they ever cared?

D             Em                                    Em
I live in the fast lane, committed so I cut off the brake line

               C                                     C
Ain't with the gossip, fuck what you done heard from the grapevine

         Em                    Em
Dreaming so I had the vision I had to get it

       C                              C  B
Nights with the baddest women, couple of bad decisions

        Em                          Em
Feeling in the city, nights turn to early mornings

     C                              C
Mama prayin' for us, we ignored the early warnings

B          Em                        Em
On the run from the war the preacher called me up to pray

E     C                         C         B
Asked me if I'll ever change, I told him "Not today"

Em                    Em
I've been living like this for too long

C               C              B
I don't know if I'll ever move on

Em                Em
Same old beat but it's a new song

C                   C       B
Paranoid so I sleep with my shoes on

Em                  Em                        C      C                         C   B
I just want my last joint, tell me what's the point 'cause I'm still fucked up

Em                      Em                   C    C                C
I've been living in a codeine dream but this lean can't fill me up

B  Em       Em       C            C
No matter what, it's all the same

B    Em     Em     C             Bm
It's not enough to kill my pain

Em                  Em                        C                C               D
I just want my last joint, tell me what's the point 'cause I'm still fucked up

B  Em     Em         C            D
No matter what, it's all the same

Em                                     Em
Fill the paper with reefer then go and hit the liquor store

C    C                          B
That bottle and Mary Jane's the only friend I know

Em                         Em
I had people I love that I end up burying

C                                   Bm
How'd they go from popping pills to shooting heroine?

          Em                            Em
Thinkin' 'bout my partner, I'm standing at his grave

    C     C                           B
I'm tryna tell his mama "It's gon' be okay"

                Em
What do you say when somebody's so heart-broke?

Em                C       C
Their rent's past due and they're late on their car note?

Bm
I've been through it

Em                                  Em
I keep looking for the light at the end of the tunnel

C    C                             C                           E
It's my life and I'm the type that keeps fighting the struggle

Em                               Em
Since a youngin, always found my way right to the trouble

C                             Em
I think the storm's coming, I feel lightning and thunder

Em                  Em                        C                C               B   Em
I just want my last joint, tell me what's the point 'cause I'm still fucked up

Em                      Em                   C
I've been living in a codeine dream but this lean can't fill me up

Bm    Em  Em         C            Bm
No matter what, it's all the same

B    Em     Em     C            Bm
It's not enough to kill my pain

Em                  Em                        C      C                         Bm
I just want my last joint, tell me what's the point 'cause I'm still fucked up

Em                      Em                   C          C          Bm
I've been living in a codeine dream but this lean can't fill me up

      Em   Em        E   C        Bm
No matter what, it's all the same

     Em      Em    C
It's not enough to kill my pain