Misc Originals – Brooks Herring - Stones Throw (Guitar)

G
First Baptist Church sits on the corner

C
I can see the stained glass from my room

G
I can hear em singin on Sunday mornin

      C
As I lay in last night’s sin and 90 proof

              G
Cuz there’s a liquor store a few steps in the other direction

           C
And I tell myself each night that’s the only way

      G
The whisky’s always been easier to swallow

         C
Than the words I know that preacher has to say

C
Walked the line my whole damn life

     G           D/F#             Em
With God and the long arm of the law

C
Learned all about good and bad

       G                 D/F#           Em
Still learnin to fold my hands before I fall

C
I’d love to go to heaven if they’ll have me

     G            D/F#                     Em
Lord knows I fall short but I’m tryin like hell

C                                        C/B  Am
Yeah I’m always a block away from Jesus

                         G
And a stone’s throw from jail

G
I can walk back home from 3rd and James

C
Right after the judge brings the hammer down

G
I’m no stranger to this walk of shame

     C
And choosin between hittin my knees and hittin the town

C
Walked the line my whole damn life

     G           D/F#             Em
With God and the long arm of the law

C
Learned all about good and bad

       G                 D/F#           Em
Still learnin to fold my hands before I fall

C
I’d love to go to heaven if they’ll have me

     G            D/F#                     Em
Lord knows I fall short but I’m tryin like hell

C                                        C/B  Am
Yeah I’m always a block away from Jesus

                         G
And a stone’s throw from jail

     D
Same distance between convictions

        C                      G
One has bars and one sets you free

        D
For too long I’ve bowed to my addiction

      C               D
I was blind but now I see

C
Walked the line my whole damn life

     G           D/F#             Em
With God and the long arm of the law

C
Learned all about good and bad

       G                 D/F#           Em
Still learnin to fold my hands before I fall

C
I’d love to go to heaven if they’ll have me

     G            D/F#                     Em
Lord knows I fall short but I’m tryin like hell

C                                        C/B  Am
Yeah I’m always a block away from Jesus

                         G
And a stone’s throw from jail