Ryan Adams – Birmingham (Guitar)

Capo 2
Key
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Chords

[Intro] C G x4 [Verse]
  C            G
I wish I was a painter

    D              G
Charcoal and buffalo

     C            G
Or a presidential motorcade

          D
Where the cops just come and go

  C              G
Return me to the station

  D             G
A box and empty bag

     C                   G
Fall asleep watching the twister
[Chorus]
        C      C/B    Am7            (Gsus4)
In some broken down hotel in Birmingham
Gsus4 G x2 [Verse]
        C            G
Cause I wish I was a calendar

D                G
Numbers and good names

C         G
Variating slightly

             D
But only the pictures ever change

     C             G
Mark me 'return to sender'

           D                G
I'm like a letter without a stamp

         C             G
I wasn't written to be read

         C                 G
And I am sleepless in this bed
[Chorus]
        C      C/B    Am7           (Gsus4)
In some broken down hotel in Birmingham
Gsus4 G x4 [Verse]
         C           G
Held her hand in Old Savannah

    D                 G
Marigold print on her dress

    C                   G
Her hair was combed and parted

       D
Like a beautiful princess

         C              G
I didn't see you at the altar

         D                G
Way back then you were so drunk

         C                 G
You were washed up on some hooker's bed

         D
Behind a shitty restaurants

           C                  G
Bought her pretty clothes and diamonds

            D              G
The guy was born to be her man

        C         G
We were more than commentary

      D
For a cheap headline grab

            C                  G
So when the wind blows in your window

           D                  G
'Cause the storm don't give a damn

         C
Pray the window don't break

G                        D
Across the wrist of your writing hand

     C          G
On a stationary wept with tears

       D                 G
Of the peoples backs you stab

            C             G
When you're hiding like a robber

              D
With no one's purse to grab

C           G                      D
Remember me standing there holding out my hand
[Chorus]
     C       C/B   Am7            G
In a broken down hotel in Birmingham
[Outro] C G x3 D C G x3 D G