Chords for Jason Boland Performs "Dark & Dirty Mile" on The Texas Music Scene

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_ _ [E] _ _ _ [A] Throughout his entire career, Jason Boland [E] has always done it his way.
With such a tight band like the Stragglers backing him up, Boland [A] has made a name for
himself by being honest and true to his [E] country music sensibilities.
Now check out this performance of Dark and [A] Dirty Mile, the title track from their 2013 album.
[E] Dark and Dirty Mile was one that set the tone for even how we wanted to record the record.
[G] I think the acoustic [F#] kickoff and [Em] the build and the [C] part where it kicks into [B] gear, you
know, and [C] the harmonies and the epic licks, [D] that was one of [E] those fun ones that [D] it started
off like gangbusters when I wrote it and got [A] the verse and the chorus and out on the road,
I [E] think we were out west somewhere, we were doing some shows with [A] Stoney, one of the [E] guys
I consistently tend to get a song [A] that will stick around with, [E] he came to help me work
on the [D] second verse and it just made [A] sense and was what it needed [E] at the time, so that's
another cool thing about that, that [Em] I get to have another co-writer with a friend.
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[B] _ _ _ [E] I don't mind but always [B] refuse to hear them tell me [F#] not to stare [B] into the sun. _
_ _ _ _ This pornographic place told me [E] body was to be feared [B] and then wanted at the same time
[F#] man of [G#m] gear to [A#] figure out.
[C#] _ [B] Feared because it was a [E] pathway to immortal sin and [B] then wanted cause we'll all [D] be dust
[F#] a few short [B] years from now.
[F#] Oh it's a broken hearted world that we [E] inherit _ and [F#] all you're told to do [E] is sin and bury.
For a little [B] while, _ _ [Bm] _ [E] but on the dark [Bm] and dirty [B] night, _ _ [E] _ _ [F#] _ [B] it took a while at least for [E] me to
live enough till I [B] believed in none of what I heard and less [F#] than [C#] half of what [A#m] I [C#m] saw.
[B] Market days have [A] come and [E] gone, some are lost and some are on [B] their way back home to figure
[A] out [F#] a place to place [B] it all.
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It's a broken hearted world [E] that we inherit and [F#] all you're told to do [E] is sin and bury.
For [B] a little while, _ _ [E] _ but on the dark and [B] dirty night, _ _ [A] _ [E] we're all family [B] here on time.
_ [A] _ [E] _ On the [B] dark and dirty night.
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_ _ _ _ _ [G#] _ [B] Finally I [E] realize that knowledge better make you [B] wise or all the knots you learn to [F#] tie
believe [C#] you're on [A#m] a ball.
[C#m] _ [B] Helpless as when we were [E] born, threadbare and wholly worn, [B] out shivering as summer gives
[F#] away [B] to early fall.
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It's a broken hearted world [E] that we inherit and [F#]
all you're told to do is [E] sin and bury.
For a [B] little while, _ _ [E] _ but on the dark and [B] dirty night, _ _ [E] _ we're all family [B] here on time.
_ [A] _ [E] _ On the dark and [B] dirty night.
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