🎸 The Deeper In chords by Drive-by Truckers

Tuning: D Tuning (D G C F A D)

Key: F

Difficulty: Novice

Tuned a whole step down (DGCFAD).

Verse 1:

N.C.
By the time you were born there were four other siblings
N.C.
With your momma awaiting your daddy in jail
N.C.
And your oldest brother was away at a home
N.C.
And you didn't meet him til you were nineteen years old

Verse 2:

   G
Old enough to know better
   C       G
old enough to know better
     G                 D
But you took to his jawline and long sandy hair
    G
And he made you feel
   C      G
like none of the others
     G                D      G
And the way he looked at you touched you deep down in there

Verse 3:

    G
So you jumped on his bike
      C    G
and rolled into the sunset
     G                    D
But the sequel it started with the next morning sun
     G
And the dew on the bike seat
   C    G
and you all aglow
     G            D      G
From the love he put in you and a life on the run
    G
So you moved to a small town
C     G
then to another
G                  D
Then to another with another on its way
     G
And you both swore to God
      C     G
you would keep it together
     G            D    G
And the state wouldn't take your babies away

Verse 4:

     C
Now, the District Attorney
     G
said he might have forgiven
   G                  D
You had lots of reasons to turn out this way
      G
But you'll both go to jail
     C      G
for them four little babies
   G          D    G
You made and delivered along the way

Solo:

G C G  G D G  G C G  G D G

Verse 5:

   G
Last night you had a dream
   C     G
of a Lord so forgiving
  G                    D
He might show compassion for a heathen He damned
   G
You awoke in a jail cell
 C      G
alone and so lonely
G            D G
Seven years in Michigan