Back To The Wall Chords by Steve Earle

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_ _ _ in the evening I start to get that feeling like I'm empty inside. _ _
_ _ I know I'm doing good
now but tonight I'm headed downtown down by the _ _ riverside.
_ Sitting underneath the freeway
with an old friend from the old days and a bottle of _ wine.
_ _ He used to call me big time
said he knew someday light shine said he'd seen all the signs.
He [A] said keep yourself to
yourself. _ _ _
Keep your bedroll dry. _
_ You never can tell _ _ what the shadows hide. _
I can see
what lies on the ground. _ _
Figure whatever you find. _ _
Cause you got nothing [E] to hide. _ _
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back's [A] a wild. _ _
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_ _ _ He's getting older and he shows up and asks me how it's going.
He says I've
been better I guess.
_ _ _ I've been rained on I've been frozen but this here's the life I've
chosen cause it just wasn't for the loneliness.
_ That river suits me to a T but I'm trying to
raise a family and there ain't no place to be.
_ _ There lives a kid down by the dump there
ought to [D] be in grade school somewhere now he hangs out with me.
Now I told him keep
yourself to yourself. _
_ _ Keep your [C] bedroll dry.
_ _ Boy you never can tell _ _ what the shadows hide.
_ I can see what lies on the ground. _
_ Figure whatever [A] you find. _
_ Cause you got [E] nothing to hide. _
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your back's a [A] wild. _ _
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_ _ _ Well we're paying soft bottle I told him to I think I ought to be
headed uptown.
_ _ _ Well it's late and I've been drinking driving home I've got to think about
what's been going down.
_ _ Cause they know us down Wall Street trying to keep it up here
and they just don't care.
_ _ _ Down at the river I burn and feel the tables turn.
See if you
wind up down there.
Keep yourself to yourself. _ _
_ Keep your bedroll dry. _
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I can see what lies on _ _ _ the ground.
Figure whatever you find. _ _
Cause
you got [E] nothing to hide. _ _
And your back's [A] a wild. _ _
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