A Love Song for Bobby Long Chords by Grayson Capps

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[G] _ [D] _ Bruton, [C] Alabama, _ at [G] the _ Colonial [Am] Inn _
[G] _ Hot [C] day, old [G] arms, juice and vodka on a _ [A] nightstand
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Desert [Am] _ _ [C] Chevy Nova with [G] the seat burned out [Am] the back
From a _ [G] Winston [C] _ cigarette [Am] that was [Bb] thumped into [A] the window
And [Em] old _ [C] Bobby Long was [G] like Zorba the [D] Greek _ _ _ _ [C] Side tracked [E] _
[G] by the scent of [Am] a woman
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_ [Am] Could have been an actor [G] _
_ on a movie [Am] _ screen [G] _ [Am] Stayed in _ [C] Alabama _ [Em] just a _ dreamer [Am] of dreams _
[G] He played football against W.S. Neal Should have seen him running down [A] the [Am] field _ _ _ _
[G] I grow old, I grow old where the bottoms of my _ trousers [D] _ roll
_ [A] It's a [G] love song _ _ for [Am] Bobby Long _ _ A _ [G] love song _ _ for Bobby [A] Long
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[Em] He was a handsome [D] man [G] He had Cherokee _ [Am] cheekbones
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[D] A [Em] fair-haired [D] boy [Ebm] _
[Em] But [G] where did he go [Am] wrong?
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He [Am] chose the [C] road less traveled [G] Made all the _ [Am] difference
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Now he's _ [C] _ chastised, criticized _ [Em] He don't make [A] no sense
[G] _ _ Bruton called him crazy Said Bobby Long was nothing but a [Am] drunk _ _ _ _ _
[G] But all the thoughts in his head Was way past anything _ [A] they'd _ unthunk
_ It's a [G] love song _ _ for [A] Bobby Long [Am] _ _ _ A [G] love song _ _ for [A] Bobby Long
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[G] But don't get [A] me wrong Bobby [G] _ Long wasn't [D] no _ [Bm]
good
_ He'd drag [A] you _ [Gb] down [G] if he thought [D] he could Well he [A] _ would
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He'd drag [G] you down _ _ _
[D] _ [Em] The road I ride will be the death [A] [E] of _ [Am] me _ [G] _ Won't you come _ _ _ along and stay?
[D] _ [Em] The road I ride is gonna set me _ _ [D] free _ [G] _ It's gonna _ take me _ _ _ _ _ home
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[G] _ [Am] He _ _ _ _ _
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was a friend of my _ papa's He [G] used to drink and [Am] tell [Em] lies
[Am] Praise Flannery O [E]'Connor Smoked _ [G] cigarettes and _ [Am] philosophize _
[G] _ [Am] _ So here I am at [G] the _ _ Colonial Inn _
_ [Am] Me and Captain [C] Long
And [G] my pretty [D] girlfriend _ [G]
Oh, if you charm her [C] with a _ [G] poem
Then he breaks down [A] and cries [G] _ _ Smile, a crooked _ [E] smile
With his broken [G] _ [A] cheekbone [D] sad _ [A] Tells [C] about his _ life
[G] Now he's sixty [A]-three _
[Em] He [Am] looks [C] me in the eyes
[Em] And says, [G] come and go [A] with me [G] He could walk on water, walk on water
But you know he drowned himself [A] in wine _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ God and the devil, God and the devil God and the devil alongside [D] his [Am] man
_ It's a [G] love song _ _ _ for [Am] Bobby Long _ _ _ A [G] love _ song _ for [A] Bobby Long
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