Turnpike Troubadours – Angola (Guitar)

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[Intro] G D C G (x2) [Verse 1]
           G                           D
Well I was born in Bossier Parish, in Northern Louisian'

       C                                     G
Just a few miles south of Fillmore where my daddy owned some land

    G                                      D
And we were thick as a pair of thieves, my buddy Jack and me

C                                    G
Drinkin' beer and playin' football, fishin' on them creeks
[Chorus]
       C                                   G
Oh but now my life it seems like some old country song you know

        D                                            G
Lord I just turned 21, and there's no chance of parole

        C                               G
And I'm doin' life for murder, in this penitentiary

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Just a young man in Angola, seen the last of bein' free
[Solo] G D C G [Verse 2]
   G                       D
We graduated high school, back in '98

C                                      G
Tried to live the clean life, but the clean life didn't pay

       G                                            D
Then a friend of a friend of a friend of ours had a way to make ends meet

    C                              G
And he gave us a crash course, in southern chemistry
[Chorus]
       C                                   G
Oh but now my life it seems like some old country song you know

        D                              C            G
Lord I just turned 21, and there's no chance of parole

        C                               G
And I'm doin' life for murder, in this penitentiary

       D                              C             G
Just a young man in Angola, seen the last of bein' free
[Solo] G D C G [Verse 3]
    G                                 D
And then one day it happened, and the wild men got the call

     C                         G
And Jackie he'd been talkin', with the local law

     G                                   D
They stuck him nearly fifty times and dumped him in the creek

         C                                           G
When the sheriffs found the body, they pointed their bloody hands at me

             A                                C
And I got a tattoo on my shoulder, I got a number on my chest

     A                                          C                  D
The tattoo just says Haughton, and that's the place I love the best, yeah
[Outro] G D C G (x3)