Chords for Jolie Holland - Corrido Por Buddy

The story [C] about someone [F] I barely [G] knew at all
He was a [C] friend of my friend's
[Am] And they told me [G] about him
About what he had
[F] Nothing to break [G] his fall
_ [Am] He had a [C] doubt about [F]
religion [G] and his [Am] books
I'm a [C] crazy damn [F] fool
I never lived to know it
[E] He was a beautiful [G] young man on [F] the streets [C] of Austin
_ [E] He [F] was a ghost-faced junkie on the streets of New [C] Orleans
_ I [F] could barely recognize him when [C] I saw
He [F] had a look me [Am] in the face
[F] And I said my [C] name before I knew it [G] was him
[F] I heard it for the day
I [C] wish I'd been _ [G] _
_ _ _ [F] recorded
I was the only gay in the whole wide world
It's bound to erase the bridges we're bound to slide
[Dm] _ Crossroads of [E] poison to [Am] that horrible land
[Dm] Badly used, a bloody aftermath _
[G] Everything I'm honest with is everything _
[F] He treated me with what I considered [C] kindness
When [F] I crawled off to sleep in my car [C] he was worried about me _
[F] We paid our respects to the man on the [C] outskirts of Austin _
[F] I'm sorry [Am] to say
[F] I [Em] was raised by the same [G] church with him
[F] I heard it for the day
I [C] wish I'd been [G] recorded
But _ [Em] _ _ _ [F] _
it takes just a sighted woman of light _
Icarus of Mars made it back to the ship
[Dm] When I was running down the [Am] road
Learning the local words [Dm] from a couple good people
[G] I'm sorry to say the whole round [F] I was a cruel buddy
I'll [C] never get a chance again
[F] I'm a hurtin' buddy
I [C] wish I'd been one of [G] them
[F] I'm a hurtin' buddy
[C] I'll never get a chance [G] again
I'm a [F] hurtin' buddy
I [C] wish I'd been one of them
_ [G] _