Chords for Tailgate Watch: Jason Isbell Performs "If We Were Vampires" at the Country Music HOF

[Em] _ _ Thanks again to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Walter and Christy Carter who really
truly are our friends and we love them very dearly.
This is quite an honor to be able to do this.
I was overwhelmed when they told me about it.
I just really still feel like I'm in a dream because all the people who've come before
me have been so incredible, so [E] impactful, and so important to American music over the years.
So it really means the world to me.
Thank y'all very [Em] much. Thank you. _
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_ _ _ _ [Em] [Bm] Not _ [C] _
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[G] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ [D] _ [E] the long [Bm] flowing dress [C] you're in _ [Em] or the light [Bm] coming off [C] your skin.
[E] The fragile heart you've protected [G] for so long.
[Em] Or the mercy in your sense of [G] right and wrong.
[D] [Em] It's not your hands [Bm] searching slow [C] in the dark
_ [E] Or your nails [Bm] leaving [C] love's watermark
_ [Em] It's not the way you talk [G] me off the roof
_ [Em] Your questions like directions [G] to the [D] truth
[G] [C] It's knowing that this can't go [G] on forever
_ _ [C] Likely one of us will [G] have to spend some days alone
[C] Maybe we'll get forty [Em] years together
[D] But one day [C] I'll be gone
One [Em] day you'll be gone
[D] If [Em] we were vampires [Bm] and death [C] was a joke
_ [Em] We'd go out [Bm] on the sidewalk [C] and smoke
_ [Em] Laugh at all the lovers [G] and their plans
[Em] I wouldn't feel the need to [G] hold your [D] hand
[Em] Maybe time [Bm] running out [C] is a gift
_ [Em] I'll work hard [Bm] till the end [C] of my shift
[E] To give you every second [G] I can find
And _ [E] hope it isn't me who's [G] left behind
_ _ [C] Knowing that this can't go [G] on forever
It's [C] likely one of us will have [G] to spend some days alone
[C] Maybe we'll get forty [Em] years together
[G] [D] But one day [C] I'll be gone
One day you'll [Em] be gone
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[C] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ [G] _ _
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[F#] _ _ _ [D] [E] Knowing _ [Em] _ _
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[G] _ _ _ [D] _ [C] _ that this can't go [G] on forever
_ [C] Likely one of us will have [G] to spend some days [C] alone
Maybe we'll get forty [Em] years together
[D] But one [G] day [C] I'll be gone
One [Em] day you'll be gone
[D] _ [Em] _ [A] _ [Em] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [Bm] _ [Em] _ _ [Bm] _
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