Old Crow Medicine Show – Paint This Town (Guitar)

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SONG: PAINT THIS TOWN ARTIST: OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW TAB BY: DON CZARSKI EMAIL: [email protected] NOTE: In the Verses listen to the beat/timing and you will hear the chords emphasized with a single strum that I have indicated. CAPO: 3rd FRET INTRO: D A E D D E VERSE:

 E                          D A E
Ever since I was a young boy

E                     A A E
I had a wandering soul

E                                D     D
I walked and crawled across six state lines

E
By the time I was 8 years old

A
I  landed in some cornfield

 A
They called a town on the grow

      E                              D
So I climbed up on that water tower man

     D   E
But the city was a no show

     A
And that’s when I spied you but we didn’t mind

 A
All night truck stops, drive-ins, dives

          E
We were, teenage troubadours hopping on boxcars

       E
For a hell of a one-way ride

CHORUS:

B7
It’s just a Waffle House jukebox

B7                            E
My brains are scattered arou-ound

     A
But one of these days you and me babе

             A
We’re gonna spill the wholе bucket

                E
And paint this town

 D     D    E   A A E
Paint this town

VERSE:

 E
Paint it red and white for Old Glory

 D    D   E
Paint it blue for the cops tailing your old man’s Ford

 D     D        E                                  D
Shimmy up them power lines and paint some anarchy signs

               A           E
'Cause that’s what you do when you’re 15 years old

 A
We’ll paint it yellow for a warning

 A
They’ll never take us alive

           E
Now we’ve given our hearts to this heartbreak city

       E
Where farm kids go to make out or die

CHORUS:

Bm7                       B7
It’s just a Waffle House jukebox

B                             E
My brains are scattered arou-ound

     A
But one of these days you and me babе

             A
We’re gonna spill the wholе bucket

                E
And paint this town

 D     D    E
Paint this town

INSTRUMENTAL/SOLO: C#m C#m E E C#m C#m B E B VERSE:

         E
Now the train don’t stop like it used to

            E
Interstate missed by more than a mile

 D     D         E
Still all these trailer park kids

                       A
That grow up thinking this

      E
Is a place they will survive

     A
And you and me babe we faded away

          A
Like the yearbook page foretold

     E
Now all we got left is the dirt under my fingernails from

 E
When we went digging for gold

CHORUS:

 B
It’s just a Waffle House jukebox

 B7
Bright lights spinning around

     A
But one of these days they just might light your way

          A
Make you spill the whole damn bucket

                E
And paint this town

 D     D    E
Paint this town

 D     D    E
Paint this town

D D E D A E