Fade Those Blues

132bpm – ½ down; G D Em C.

  • Verse 1

She walks on in and she’s lookin’ a wreck
She’s lookin’ for somewhere to hang her head
She grabs a stool at the edge of the bar 
Sits down and puts her back to that guitar
Hey Bartender can you pour her on up a shot and slide it all the way down
Better make it two or three cause tonight she chasin’ them blues around

  • Chorus

Baby blue in those eyes
those sweet little lies
It was in that lifted truck that he drives
It’s was in those boot cut jeans and his collar
Oh she’s just mad cause he never called her on up
When things got tough
To fix ‘em on up
So now she’s just shootin’ to fade those blues away
Fade ‘em away
Fade ‘em away

  • Verse 2

I slide a few bar stools on down
And I try to make a smile out of her frown
And I tell her it’s just somethin’ that will fade away
Like these blue jeans on my legs 

  • Chorus

Baby blue in those eyes
those sweet little lies
It was that lifted truck that he drives
It’s was in those boot cut jeans and his collar
Oh she’s just mad cause he never called her on up
When things got tough
To fix ‘em on up
So now she’s just shootin’ to fade those blues away
Fade ‘em away
Fade ‘em away
Just fade ‘‘em away
Fade those blues away

  • Bridge

She finally looks up into my eyes
And says boy you got some blues too
Can I leave here tonight with you

  • Chorus

Baby blue in those eyes
those sweet little lies
It was in that lifted truck that he drives
It’s was in those boot cut jeans and his collar
Oh she’s just mad cause he never called her on up
When things got tough
To fix ‘em on up
So now she’s just shootin’ to fade those blues away
Fade ‘em away
Fade ‘em away
Just fade ‘‘em away
Fade those blues away

Tying

Standard; Am Em G D

  • Verse 1

Third round double bourbon on ice
Catchin’ glares yeah, now from familiar eyes
Fancy taste, pretty place
All on your Daddy’s dime
Ain’t nothin’ like you
When you were mine, 
all mine
So close your eyes
I’ll paint you the memory from the time

  • Chorus

Truck bed, red wine
The moon was shinin’ on the river
Just a sliver in those hot summer nights
Starin’ up at those skies
All night
Shootin’ stars goin’ by
And we were wishin’ on forever
Talkin’ ‘bout life 
Babies and diamond rings and everything in between, yeah
But now here we are
We’re both tyin’
You’re tyin’ the knot and I’m just tyin’ one on

  • Verse 2

All of that I just said out loud
On the microphone that they were passin’ round
It’s somethin’ borrowed, somethin’ blue
This is all just too new
Remember way back when 
when you were mine
I’ll paint you the memory from the time

  • Bridge

Today I tied me a necktie
And on your present, a ribbon
You got a diamond 
Now I’m tyin’ one on just to get through livin’

  • Chorus

Truck bed, red wine
The moon was shinin’ on the river
Just a sliver in those hot summer nights
Starin’ up at those skies
All night
Shootin’ stars goin’ by
And we were wishin’ on forever
Talkin’ ‘bout life 
Babies and diamond rings and everything in between, yeah
But now here we are
We’re both tyin’
You’re tyin’ the knot and I’m just tyin’ one on
You’re tyin’ the knot and I’m just tyin’ one on
You’re tyin’ the knot and I’m just tyin’ one on

Hangman

155 bpm
Em C / Em G Am C

  • Verse 1

Loaded in my lip
Tobacco Copenhagen
And loaded on my hip
A six shooter Smith and Wesson
I got spurs a spinning on the back of my boots y’all
You Better watch out boy or you’ll be dead soon
Cause I’m a bronco buckin’ gun slingin’ quick draw

  • Chorus

Clock strikes noon
Church bells ring
That rope just keeps on tightening
To rob a man of his life and his family
To burn his house down with them inside
Oh the humanity
No longer can you rape, pilage and kill, cause justice is servin’
You did me wrong man
I’m the law man
Now ur a dead man
Cuz I’m the hangman.

  • Verse 2

Dragging u all hog-tied
By a rope behind my horse
Couldn’t escape if you tried
Across this rocky desert floor
By high noon, and out here in the desert heat
You’ll be hanging on that desert tree
With a rattle snake buzzing down at your feet, yeah

  • Chorus

Clock strikes noon
Church bells ring
That rope just keeps on tightening
To rob a man of his life and his family
To burn his house down with them inside
Oh the humanity
No longer can you rape, pilage and kill, cause justice is servin’
You did me wrong man
I’m the law man
Now ur a dead man
Cuz I’m the hangman.

  • Bridge

No badge to shine
But a wrong to right
You did the crime 
This is eye for an eye
Now it’s your time to die

  • Chorus

The clock strikes noon
Church bells ring
That rope just keeps on tightening
To rob a man of his life and his family
To burn his house down with them inside
Oh the humanity
No longer can you rape, pilage and kill, cause justice is servin’
You did me wrong man
I’m the law man
Now ur a dead man
Cuz I’m the hangman.

Old Familiar Ground

135 bpm
Capo 1; C,Am,Em,G

  • Verse 1


You see that dot on the map right there
That’s where we learned to play guitars
Learned to drive our cars
Broke some girls hearts
First beers, shed tears, yeah it happened all right there
You see that lil’ high school right there
Next to town square
That’s where we all went to learn
Before life started to take those crazy turns

  • Chorus

It’s where we all grew up
Where we all remain
Where we all had kids
And carried on our names
Girls said yes
Boys bought those rings
Girls changed names
Had babies and changed everything
In our hometown
Our kids will probably bury us into that old familiar ground

  • Verse 2


You see the beautiful woman right there
The one with the hazel eyes and long brown hair
Her and I decided to make a life
With a diamond and I do
Became a husband and a wife

  • Bridge


You see this dirt all fenced in right here
It’s where we both wanted just a little more
This is where two became four

  • Chorus

It’s where we all grew up
Where we all remain
Where we all had kids
And carried on our names
Girls said yes
Boys bought those rings
Girls changed names
Had babies and changed everything
In our hometown
Our kids will probably bury us into that old familiar ground
That familiar ground in our small town
Oh our roots grow deep into that ground