Charlie Robison
The Preacher

Keyboard intro

Well I threw myself a party
Well, it was just the other day
Well my wife wasn’t there but my old buddies were
‘Cause somebody was goin’ away
Well I’ve lived in this town for a lifetime
And I’ve sinned from beginning to Z
And the preacher at our congregation
He knew just how to get into me

Well he’d stand there so high on his pulpit
And I knew when he talked of my soul
But that preacher he died there
With all of my lies

Chorus:
And my sins went with him when they put him in the hole
My sins went with him when they put him in the hole
Well bIess my heart let the good times roll
My sins went with him when they put him in the hole

Well he drove a Ford Fiesta
What the hell kinda car is that
Well he’d drive around here tryin’ to flush out a queer
Or the man that ran over his cat
But his heart couldn’t take all the pressure
Tryin’ to find what I already know
And my face has gone pious to cheshire

Chorus

Instrumental
Well the new preacher he is a young man
And he don’t speak as much from the book
And my wife doesn’t like that about him
But he makes up for that with his looks
So she stares up at him every Sunday
And in her eyes I can see all the lust
But I guess that I can’t be complaining
‘Cause it was me that has broken our trust
So I hope she lives long or gets lucky
And he passes before she gets old
Then she won’t have to worry ‘bout nothin’

Chorus 2:
‘Cause her sins will go with him when they put him in a hole
Her sins will go with him when they put him in the hole
Well bless her heart; let fhe good times roll
‘Cause her sins will go with him when they put him in the hole

Well bless our hearts; let the good times roll
‘Cause our sins will go with him when they put him in the hole
Our sins will go with him when they put him in the hole

This song is pretty simple and fun to play.

Standard tuning

Intro: D C C/B C/Bb

Verse:
Well, I hear that ol’ John Deere tractor
At the [C/B]low water bridge[C/Bb]
Pullin’ them drinkers across
He's draggin' so many on this[C/B] Satur[C/Bb]day night
I can smell that ol?? tractor's exhaust

CHORUS:
But the rain on the roof sounds so pretty
And the cowboys I fear for the most
The medina done broke from it'[C/B]s ragged ol[C/Bb]’ pin
And it's makin?? a run for the coast

Verse:
Then a place down on Main Street
Right across from the bank
When somebody drew on a line
‘Bout twenty foot up on that Frontier Hotel
Where it crested back in ’29
Well they said it took most of this little ol’ town
‘Cause we live on what they call the plain
Well I read all about it in the café downtown
Where they got that ol’ newspaper framed

REPEAT CHORUS

Verse:
My grandmother called ‘bout 10 minutes ago
Like she does almost every night
She said they come home way early
When a big bolt had knocked out the light
She said a cowboy got buckin’ just before it went dark
On a bull that they called Trick ‘r’ Treat
Ain’t nobody saw if he finished his ride
So I guess I’ll forget about sleep

REPEAT CHORUS
TAG:
The medina done broke from it’s ragged ol’ pin
And it’s makin’ a run for he coast

The rest of the verses are played in the same way as the first.