Jackie chords by James Mcmurtry

• Difficulty: Beginner

♫ Intro:


Bm D  A  G


♫ Verse 1:
 D
Half a section in the short grass at the foot of the plains
   A              G       D
Grows broomweed in the dry times, ragweed when it rains
 D
It's all she's got left that the lawyers don't claim
 A             G         Bm
Jackie does her damn best, never one to complain

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 D
She's been green breaking horses when she's home from the road
 A           G
Waiting on dispatch to find her a load
    D
She leased all but the trap, ponies can't graze a thing
  A         G                Bm
Another bobtail of coastal ought to last them 'til spring


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D
There were pitchers on the tables and kids running 'round
 A          G
Four generations of a blinking light town
      D
It was the Cotton Eyed Joe or maybe just the right glance
      A            G
She got to going with Randy at the Friday night dance


♫ Chorus:

Bm              D
I just got two rules, if my conscience be known
   A             G
Don't lie to me, don't bring me nothing home
 Bm             D
Faithful's a nice word in Sunday school class
 A            G
Life's just too crazy for that


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♫ Verse 2:
D
Randy says not to worry, he'll feed while she's gone
 A                 G
She's got the Freightliner idling half up on his lawn
   D
He don't like her driving when the northers come blue
  A              G
But if the horses went hungry Lord knows what she'd do
   D
'Round Christmas up the Caprock you can see all the towns
  A             G
And the courthouses lit up for ten miles around
  D
It's a magical time to be traveling the roads
  A              G
Watch the country roll by in the halogens' glow

♫ Chorus:

Bm              D
I just got two rules, if my conscience be known
   A             G
Don't lie to me, don't bring me nothing home
 Bm             D
Faithful's a nice word in Sunday school class
 A            G
Life's just too crazy for that


 Bm D A G

♫ Bridge:
D
She jack knifed on black ice with an oversized load
A                      G
There's a white cross in the borrow ditch where she went off the road
D
She wasn't going that fast, the responders all say
 A                   G
How it ended that bad, we can wonder all day


♫ Chorus:

Bm              D
I just got two rules, if my conscience be known
   A             G
Don't lie to me, don't bring me nothing home
 Bm             D
Faithful's a nice word in Sunday school class
 A            G
Life's just too short for all that


Bm              D
I just got two rules, if my conscience be known
   A             G
Don't lie to me, don't bring me nothing home
 Bm             D
Faithful's a nice word in Sunday school class
 A            G
Life's just too short for all that
 A            G
Life's just too short for all that
       Bm
for all that

♫ Outro:

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