Child Bride

Play the progression as.. e|-2--2---0-0h2-------------------------------------------------------------------| B|-3--3---3-3---------------------------------------------------------------------| G|-2--2---2-2---------------------------------------------------------------------| D|-0--0---0-0---------------------------------------------------------------------| A|-0--0---0-0---------------------------------------------------------------------| E|-x--x---x-x---------------------------------------------------------------------| Friday night’s pay night guys fresh out of work      Talking about the weekend tryin’ to scrub off the dirt Some heading home to their families some wearing trouble on their shirts Some driving down to Stovall just looking to get hurt I work for the county out on 95            Just holdin’ that red flag watchin’ the traffic pass me by All day I keep a picture of my baby in my head         At night I dream I’m with her laying in my bunkhouse bed      Seen her at the canteen down at the Legion hall         She came in with her brothers standin’ back up against the wall Me and her we’d go walking down by the union tracks One day I looked straight at her and she looked straight back Grey clouds stretch across the white moon              Sitting in the backyard in my old car we hum out of tune Well I saved up my money and I put it all away        I went to see her daddy but we didn’t have much to say Said "Now son can’t you see that she’s just a little girl Who don’t know nothing ’bout the meanness in this world" Took off down to Florida we got along all right        One day her brothers came and got her and they took me in a black and white The prosecutor kept the promise that he made on that day She was sad and the judge was mad and he put me straight away Bridge Well they said she was too young She was no younger than I’ve been   When she put her arms around me and the night closed in     Well sometimes I dream of getting out of here          Heading down towards them old tracks              I swore I’d come and get her but I know I ain’t never going back There’s nights I can’t sleep no matter how hard I try So from my window I watch the moonlight fall on the far hillside I imagine I put on my jacket and go down to this little roadside bar Pick a stranger and spin around the dance floor to a Mexican guitar A (till fade) Questions comments insults...BlindTerry333