Justin Townes Earle – Pictures In A Drawer (Guitar)

Capo 2
Key
-

Auto-scroll

Chords

From Album Single Mothers Absent Fathers Finger picked with lots of little hammer ons [Intro] Am [Verse 1]
C
It's raining in the mountains

Am
It's heading this way

C
It's supposed to rain tomorrow

Am
Or the next day

F               G
Sure I get lonely

C                   Am
But a whole lot has changed

F                                      G
Yours is the first voice I've heard in days
[Verse 2]
C
Oh but mama if you don't mind

       Am
Can we talk about something else

C
Mama please don't come over

            Am
This ain't nothing you can help

F                G                 C        G/B   Am
You'll be the first to know when I start to come around

F                         G                          C
I'm not drowning I'm just seeing how long I can stay down
[Chorus]
               Am
And mama she's gone

           F            C
And just a picture in a drawer

F                             C             G
The kind of hurt that takes a rainy day and hurts that much more

           C
Mama she's gone
[Verse 3]
C
Well you know there's nothing tying me

          Am
to this town now that she's gone

C
Don't know why I ever come back

        Am
Guess I just tagged along

F       G                 C           G/B      Am
Can't believe that once I called this place my home

F                                 G            C
Cause I'm walking the streets and all I see is ghosts
[Chorus]
           Am
Mama she's gone

           F            C
And just a picture in a drawer

    F                 C                     G
The kind of hurt that takes a rainy day and hurts that much more

            C
Mama she's gone
[Instrumental] C Am C Am F G C Am F (this is not right, but close-ish) [Bridge]
F                                    C
Lonely, lonely and wondering where I am

F                                                 G
And I know the love I see was over long before it began
[Verse 4]
C
And now the rain's getting closer

Am
Midnight's coming on

    C
The wind seems to whisper

    Am
You fool you know she's gone

F               G                        C        G/B     Am
I still leave the gate unlatched just in case she staggers home

F                    G                  C
Mama said she was no good And now she's gone