The Lawrence Arms – Heaven Help Me (Guitar)

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[Intro] [X]
D A G [x4]
[X]

D G  [x2]
[X]
[Verse 1]
D                                G
    My friend Jimmy works on the Union Pacific line.

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Passed me a line about 9 AM and since then I been feeling fine.

D                                     G
Passed a fifth of Old Kentucky in his garage all day

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using tattoos like old photo albums, we reminisced the olden days.

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     Jimmy put a cigarette where his front tooth used to be

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jumped in his truck and pulled six beers from underneath his seat.

           A           G           A            G
He said "I gotta go to work or the wife's gonna holler at me"

     D                   G                 A
so I hopped in grabbed a beer and drank my way to the beer hall down the street.
D G [x2] [Chorus]
D                    A             G
Hey friend, when you gonna take me home?

D                        A                   G
'Cause I'm too drunk for driving but I think it's time to go.

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Scotch and cocaine, whiskey, beer and gin.

       D          A         G       [X]
Heaven help me if I see the letters DUI again.
D G [x2] [Verse 2]
D                                    G
    When Jimmy dropped me off it was 3 in the PM.

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The Mississippi sun made the barroom look mighty dim.

D                           G
Me and three old timers all hunkered at the bar.

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Bought four shots of bourbon with money that I squandered from a penny jar.

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    Whiskey kept a flowing as the sun went down

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warming my insides 8 ounces syrupy, sweet and brown.

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    Checking the door for the law or my wife.

A                                   G *
They know where to find me. I guess they ain't looking for me tonight.

        G *
I guess they ain't looking for me tonight.

        A *                       A
I guess they ain't looking for me tonight.
[Chorus]
D                    A             G
Hey friend, when you gonna take me home?

D                        A                   G
'Cause I'm too drunk for driving but I think it's time to go.

Bm         D        A                 G
Scotch and cocaine, whiskey, beer and gin.

       D          A         G       [X]
Heaven help me if I see the letters DUI again.
D G D Bm G D G D Bm G A [Verse 3]
D                        G
So now it's 3 AM and the cocaine's all but gone.

D                              A              G
If I can buy a bottle from the bar then I can make it through till dawn.

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    Double vision, double trouble if I get behind the wheel

          Bm       A                    G
'Cause my guts are rotten from too many prison meals.

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My guts are rotten from too many prison meals.
[Chorus]
D                    A             G
Hey friend, when you gonna take me home?

D                        A                   G
'Cause I'm too drunk for driving but I think it's time to go.

Bm         D        A                 G
Scotch and cocaine, whiskey, beer and gin.

       D          A         G
Heaven help me if I see the letters.

       D          A         G
Heaven help me if I see the letters.

       D          A         G       [X]
Heaven help me if I see the letters DUI again.
D G
D G A
Again.
[Outro] D G Bm A G A D