Zach Bryan – Purple Gas (Guitar)

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As recorded by Zach Bryan & Noeline Hofmann (2024 release) Zach and Noeline play this song with a capo at 5th fret. To do so transpose -5 steps.
[Intro]
  C                F       C
e|---------------0-----1-------0---|
B|-----------1---------1-------1---|
G|-------------0---0h2---------0---|
D|-----0h2---------3-----------2---|
A|-3-----------------------3-------|
E|---------------------------------|
h = hammer on [Verse 1]
C                   F      C
I've got plates for purple gas

               F       C
'Bout the only break I catch

                 F       C
But I am not the kind of man

                         F      C
To blame the dealer on a losin' hand

                 F     C
Have a lone star in my eye

                        F           C
The darker the sky, the brighter it shines

                    F      C
Pumpjack checks and bailer twine

                      F       C
A ton of a grit or maybe it's spite
[Chorus]
    Dm                               F
And if I weren't a flatland boy, I'd say I'd have a hill

  Dm                               F
A hill that I will die upon if the climb don't get me killed

   Dm                             F
If there were such heights around here for a guy to lay his pride

   Dm                   C         F             C
Maybe I'd rest before I died if I weren't a flatland boy

     F                  C
If I weren't a flatland boy
[Verse 2]
               F             C
I hammer down, hair straight back

                               F        C
The world blurs past, tell me, how's it that

           F         C
My horizon line's static?

                      F      C
I guess at least it's a sure bet

                        F         C
Was taught to not throw the first fist

                              F             C
But if you take a hit, finish that son of a bitch

                           F          C
In a life havin' the upper hand's a myth

                                 F           C
Your only fightin' chance is too stubborn to quit
[Chorus]
    Dm                               F
And if I weren't a flatland boy, I'd say I'd have a hill

  Dm                               F
A hill that I will die upon if the climb don't get me killed

   Dm                             F
If there were such heights around here for a guy to lay his pride

   Dm                   C         F             C
Maybe I'd rest before I died if I weren't a flatland boy

     F                  C
If I weren't a flatland boy
[Verse 3]
                   F          C
Retired rail ties, point nine wire

                    F       C
Neighbor kid on the fencing pliers

                 F    C
Fargo that turns over fine

                      F       C
At forty below if you cuss it right

               F       C
A sly thumb of Rye sometimes

                           F     C
Keep a bottle hid with the Bio-Mycin

                               F     C
You can dull the edge, you can look ahead

          Dm                       C
But can't get there, it goes on forever

       Dm              C
Oh, it just goes on forever

              Dm                       C    F C
You keep your head down, it goes on forever
[Outro]
                        F      C
But I've got plates for purple gas

                    F      C
I've got plates for purple gas