Townes Van Zandt – Wreck On The Highway (Guitar)

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[Intro] D D A D [Verse 1]
    D
Aw, who did you say it was brother?

                       A
Who was it fell by the way?

     D
When whiskey and blood ran together

    D        A      D
Did you hear anyone pray?
[Chorus]
  D
I didn't hear nobody pray, dear brother

  G                  D
I didn't hear nobody pray

  D
I heard the crash on the highway

      D           A      D
But I didn't hear nobody pray
[Instrumental] D A D D A D [Verse 2]
       D
When I heard the crash on the highway

                            A
I knew what it was from the start

  D
I went to the scene of destruction

        D           A             D
And the picture was stamped on my heart
[Verse 3]
    D
The whiskey and blood ran together

                                A
Mixed with the glass where they lay

D
Death lay her hand in destruction

      D           A      D
But I didn't hear nobody pray
[Chorus]
  D
I didn't hear nobody pray, dear brother

  G                  D
I didn't hear nobody pray

  D
I heard the crash on the highway

      D           A      D
But I didn't hear nobody   pray
[Instrumental] D A D D A D [Verse 4]
  D
I wish I could change this sad story

                      A
That I am now telling you

    D
But there is no way I can change it

    D          A           D
For somebody's life is now through
[Verse 5]
      D
Their soul has been called by the Master

                            A
They died in a crash on the way

  D
I heard the groans of the dying

      D           A      D
But I didn't hear nobody pray
[Chorus]
  D
I didn't hear nobody pray, dear brother

  G                  D
I didn't hear nobody pray

  D
I heard the crash on the highway

      D           A      D
But I didn't hear nobody pray