Riley Green – Numbers On The Cars (Guitar)

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[Intro] D G D G [Verse 1]
G                 A              D
Stopped by that house on Desmond Lake

G              A                        D       A      G
Sittin in his easy chair, watchin the Sunday evening race

G              A                    D
Tells me my grandmas in the other room

G                    A                  D     A         G
Guess he forgot we laid her down, it'll be a year come June
[Chorus]
G                               A
Then he mumbles about Vietnam, he don’t know who the hell I am

          Bm               A                G
But the drivers, well he tells me who they are

           Em                  A             D    G
I guess he still knows the numbers on the cars
[Verse 2]
G               A                D
Try to get him out like we used to

       G                     A                          D         A      G
Now I load the truck and I drive the boat, cause there ain’t much he can do

G                     A                Bm
Cast him a line and watched it as it sank

                G                  A        D        A             G
Thinkin how he used to talk for hours, now he just stares at the bank
[Chorus]
G
He used to know every stump in this fishin hole

A                                                   Bm              A               G
Now he probably thinks that we’re in Mexico, but he knows his way around that boat, even in the dark

Em                    A             D
He still knows the numbers on the cars
[Hook]
             G                  A
Well no he ain’t all there, but I don’t care

     Bm                    A         G
My mind's still full of memories of him

        G                     A
And he may not know all the words to the songs

             Bm                    A             G         A
But he still knows Merle Haggards voice when he hears it
[Verse 3]
G                 A              D
Stopped by that house on Desmond lake

G                 A                    D      A      G
With a couple of tickets to go see a Sunday evening race

G                    A                    Bm
As we watched those cars fly around the track

G                   A                       D        A          G
I asked the Lord if just one more time He'd bring my old friend back
[Chorus]
G                                  A
Then somewhere around lap 23, the old man turned and smiled at me

            Bm             A                G
And for a moment, I know he knows where we are

Em                          A
Cause he still knows the numbers

D                     G
He still knows the numbers

Em                    A             D    G D G
He still knows the numbers on the cars