Josh Ritter – Lawrence Ks (Guitar Live)

Capo 3 Video Lesson
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Chords

[Intro] C/G C/G F C/G C/G C/G F C/G [Verse 1]
C/G
Dirt roads and dry land farming

      C/G
Might be the death of me

      F                          C/G
But I can't leave this world behind

       C/G
And my debts are not like prison

             C/G
Were there's hope of getting free

        F                           C/G
Seems I can't leave this world behind
[Chorus 1]
G                                 F
I've been from here to Lawrence, Kansas

G                            F
Trying to leave my state of mind

G                          F
Trying to leave this awful sadness

      F                         C/G
But I can't leave this world beind
C/G [Verse 2]
         C/G
South of Deliah there's a patch

    C/G
Out back by the willow trees

        F                           C/G
Where I can't leave this world behind

          C/G
And it's a fenced in piece of nothing

  C/G
I hear voices on my knees

      F                         C/G
And I can't leave this world behind
[Chorus 2]
G                            F
Some prophecies are self-fulfilling

G                               F
But I've had to work for all of mine

G                                 F
Better times will come to me, God willing

         F                          C/G
'Cause I can't leave this world beind
[Break] C/G C/G F C/G C/G C/G F C/G [Verse 3]
C/G
This world must be frightning

C/G
Everybody's on the run

       F                       C/G
And we can't leave this world behind

        C/G
And our house is a wooden one

        C/G
And it's built on a wooden one

           F                     C/G
Seem's we can't leave this world behind
[Chorus 3]
G                                  F
Preacher said that when the master calls us

G                           F
He's gonna give us wings to fly

G                                 F
But my wings are made of hay and corn husks

     F                         C/G
So I can't leave this world behind
C/G [Outro]
     F                        C/G    C/G    C/G
No I can't leave this world behind

     F                        C/G    C/G    C/G
No I can't leave this world behind