Bass Run Chords by Max Stalling

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_ _ [C] Every [G] once in [D] a while I [G] do the homework, [C] sometimes [G] I drive, [D] sometimes I just [C] drink.
400 [G] miles and [D] six hard [G] pushing hours [C] to check [G] on a life [D] that is just out of reach.
_ _ [C] Think [G] of a child [D] sleeping by [G] open [C] windows, two [G] miles away [D] there's this bar on a [C] hill,
playing [G] compote [D] to the [G] small hours, [C] and dressed [G] across the plowed [D] fields in his window sill. _
_ _ [G] I [C] like the sound [G] of a [D] Mexican bass [G] run, [C] I like the feel [G] that it puts in my bones.
[C] Sometimes I [G] wonder how [D] I ever got [G] here, [C] I'm just trying [D] to get home.
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_ _ [C] _ [G] traded rattlers, [D] scorpions, [G] roaches, [C] wide [G] open spaces [D] for a job that pays [C] good.
Now [G] as I sit [D] here in traffic, [G] stress [C] filled, wonder [G] if I'm [D] being paid what I should. _
_ [G] _ I [C] like the sound [G] of a [D] Mexican bass [G] run, [C] I like the feel [G] that it puts in my bones.
[C] Sometimes I wonder [G] how [D] I ever got [G] here, [C] I'm just trying [D] to get home. _ _ _
_ I think of a girl [C] and I can see her [G] face [D] plain, dark eyes and [C] moonlight but her name [G] just [D] escapes.
You never forget [C] the feel [G] of the first [D] time, does it surprise [C] you to [D] hear me say. _
_ _ _ [G] I [C] like the sound [G] of a [D] Mexican bass [G] run, [C] I like the feel [G] that it puts [D] in my [G] bones.
[C] Sometimes I wonder [G] how [D] I ever got [G] here, [C] I'm just trying [D] to get home. _
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_ _ _ _ [C] I've [G] got this friend, [D] he's a lawyer [G] in Dallas, [C] smokes [G] grove potatoes [D] out at _ Panhandle.
[C] He talks [G] with Bob [D] Wills and [G] Playboys in Turkey, [C] off [G] come his [D] wingtips and boots take their place.
_ _ _ [G] He [C] likes the sound [G] of a Western [D] swing bass [G] run, he [C] likes the feel [G] that it puts in his bones.
[C] Sometimes he wonders [G] how he [D] ever got [G] here, [C] I think he's trying [D] to get home. _
_ _ [A] _ [G] Oh I [C] like the sound [G] of a Mexican bass run, I [C] like the feel [G] that it puts [D] in my bones.
[G] _ [C] Sometimes I wonder [G] how I [D] ever got [G] here, [C] I'm just trying [D] to get home. _
_ _ _ [G] Yeah we [C] like the [G] sound of a [D] bass [G] run, we like the [C] feel that [G] it puts in [D] our bones.
[G] Sometimes [C] we wonder [G] how we [D] ever [G] got here, [C] how the hell [D] are we gonna get home _ _ _ [G] _ _
[C] _ _ [G] without [D] him.
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