Tyler Childers – Middle Ground (Guitar)

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G
Well, I gotta get out, right now, what in the world to do

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Seems I stole the ghost away from you

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Shame my mother with the burden of a murdering son

G
Well, I'm headed out west, blazing a trail, gonna run clean out of my shoes

C                                                G
I'll keep running 'til the bottom of my feet are bruised

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Uncle told me once about a place called the middle ground
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G
Well, way over yonder past the Ohio River you can eat like a woodland king

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There's fish in the water like you ain't never seen

D                                               G
Ain't no man hungry in the bounty of the middle ground

G
You can eat on elk, eat on deer, you can eat on ring-tailed coon

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There's all kinds of critters in the dark wanna eat on you

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Ain't no man hungry in the bounty of the middle ground

C                                                                                      G
Well, the church yard brought the bull around the mountain, turned the murderer on the run

D
Pray my momma and the Lord in heaven can forgive me for the things I've done

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There ain't no jury in the middle ground, in the middle ground a boy is free

D                                         G
So goodbye momma, I'm going to the middle ground
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Well, I know his friends and his next of kin would love to watch me swing

D
And I may be sorry but I ain't so sorry that I'm never gonna let them see

C                                                                       G
There ain't no jury in the middle ground, in the middle ground a boy is free

D                                         G
So goodbye momma, I'm going to the middle ground

G
Well, I gotta get out, right now, what in the world to do

C                                    G
Seems I beat the brakes right off of you

D                                         G
Sent you early to the maker of the middle ground

D                                          G
So goodbye momma, I'm going to the middle ground