Steve Earle – No 29 (Guitar)

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C
I was born and raised here, this town's my town

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Everybody knows my name

C
But ever since the glass plant closed down

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Things around here ain't never been the same

      F
I got me a good job all right, but some nights

C          G       C
Take me to another time

G                            C
Back when I was number twenty-nine

C
I was pretty good then, don't you know? Watch him go

G                     C
Buddy, I could really fly

C
Everyone in town came, hip flasks, horn blasts

    G             C
Any autumn Friday night

F
Sally yelled her heart out "push 'em back, way back"

C              G       C
I was hers and she was mine

G                            C
Back when I was number twenty-nine

C
We was playing Smithville, big boys, farm boys

G                       C
Second down and four to go

C
Bubba brought the play in, good call, my ball

G                          C
Now they're going to see a show

    F
But Bubba let his man go, I cut back, heard it crack

C                      G       C
It still hurts me, but I don't mind

G                             C
Reminds me I was number twenty-nine

C
Now, I go to the ballgames, cold nights, half pints

G                         C
Friday nights, I'm always here

C
We got a pretty good team, good boys, strong boys

  G                            C
District champs the last three years

   F
We got a little tailback, he's pretty quick, he's real slick

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I take him for a steak sometimes

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Nowadays he's number twenty-nine

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I don't follow rainbows, big dreams, brass rings

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I've already captured mine

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Back when I was number twenty-nine