Old Tut was a cowboy I knew years ago
Could put a stretch in a story like a 40 foot rope
Young and wide-eyed I believed every word
As he rambled thru the canyons and stampeded herds
Swore there were still Comanches in them breaks to the south
He’d seen good hands ride in there that never rode out

INTRO

He had a horse he called Dollar that twice saved his life
He lost him to Jim Shoulders playin’ poker one night
When I turned 18 I packed up and left home
Tut was pretty old back then and by now he’s long gone

CHORUS:
But I’ve heard it said that old cowboys don’t die
They get put out to pasture way up in the sky
So if God’s got a Heaven for old cowboy legends
I hope the grass is greener on the other side
And He’s got good horses to ride

INTRO

Now the folks back home would tell ya Tut was just crazy and old
But I still believe in Conquistador gold
And those memories look like a mirage in the distance
Starin’ out from this prison of urban existence
So I saddle up and go back now and then
To remember who I was and just forget where I am

SOLO

Now the concrete and steel they spread out like a plague
Consumin’ the rivers, the mountains and the plains
And one of these days it’ll all be gone
But somewhere that spirit will always live on

CHORUS:
‘Cause I’ve heard it said that old cowboys don’t die
They get put out to pasture way up in the sky
If God’s got a Heaven for old cowboy legends
I hope the grass is greener on the other side
And He’s got good horses to ride
Yeah He’s got good horses to ride
A few good horses to ride
A few good horses to ride

INTRO

Capo 1

Spent the night with Jim Beam and Johnny Walker red
Woke up with a freight train running through my head
I’m a beer man
Bobby’s more the wine kind, Donny does his shots
Sammy sips martinis, Willie smokes pot
But I’m a beer man

Chorus:
I’ve done a little stepping out there on a limb
But my open mind winds up closed again
I like brown bottles and aluminum cans
Simple maybe but that’s who I am
Hey I’m just a beer man

Take your caviar and that fish that ain’t cooked
Take it off a cracker and throw it on a hook
I’m a beer man
And if I was a rich man tell you what I’d do
I’d be the same old plain old guy you always knew
Just a beer man

Chorus 2:
I’ve done a little stepping out there on a limb
But my open mind winds up closed again
I like brown bottles and aluminum cans
Call me simple but that’s who I am
Hey I’m just a beer man

Instrumental: D D D D G G D D

Chorus 3:
Yeah I’ve done a little stepping out there on a limb
But my open mind winds up closed again
I like brown bottles and aluminum cans
Call me simple but I can’t change who I am
Ya’ll I’m just a beer man

Yeah I’m a beer man

Chords:
A x02220
Bm x24432(bar chord) or xx4432
D xx0232
Em 022000
G 320003

Note:
Chords in () are just bass notes

Intro

–0h2—-3–2-0———2-3-5—-3–2————-
——3————3-2——–3——-3h5—-0-2–
—–2-2—0——2———-2-2—0——–2—–
–0——-0——2—–2—-0—–0——–2——
————–0-0———————0—0——-
——–3———————–3—————–

Verse 1
I’m on the 28th floor looking out through the window
My boots are propped up on my desk
They pay me good[D/C#] money to contribute I know
But I’m Medina daydreamin’ again

Verse2
A girl down in Texas eyes like bluebonnets
Freckles and hair almost black
Like the dam had j[D/C#]ust broken on old Lake Medina
My Carissa held nothin’ back
Ten years have gone by, we’ve gone on with our lives
But I can’t get it out of my head
I should stop remi[D/C#]niscing but I catch myself drifting
Medina daydreamin’ again[(D][-][-][D)]

Chorus
I don’t know what cause my thought to get lost
In this magical wrinkle in time, [(D][-][-][D)]
that hill country river[(C#][-][D)]
And the way that I loved her[(C#] [-][D)]
keeps winding its way through my mind

(Verse 1)
We spent the whole summer holding on to each other
Nothing else mattered back then
But each morning would find us in the shade of a cyprus
Medina daydreamin’ again

(Verse2)
We’d ride the tubes down to the place that we’d found
Pretend it was our own
Where the live oaks had hidden
A little limestone cabin
Had to be a hundred years old
We used to say we’d buy it someday
That’s where we’d raise all our kids
Then we’d pop the top on a lone star
And drift down to the sand bar
Medina daydreamin’ again

Chorus

Instrumental (verse 1)

(Verse2)
Now sometimes I wonder, what became of her
If she ever thinks about me
And I try to imagine, what might of happened
If I hadn’t been so young and naive
If I could go back somehow, with what I know now
I can almost see what might’ve been
I should give a call, but wait, what am I thinkin’ y’all
I’m Medina daydreamin’ again
I’m dreamin’ again
Back in Medina Again[A/C#]

Intro

e————0—–
B–3—-3—-1—–
G–2h4–2—-0—– strum a few times on C,
D–0—-0—-2—– and repeat 4 times.
A–0—-0—-3—–
E–3—-3———-

We went to bed, last night again, angry;
It seems like lately, we been doing that more and more.
I woke up still mad and it scared me,
When I couldn’t remember what we were fighting for.
So here’s some coffee with the cream and sugar like you like it, baby.
From a man with his heart in his hand and just one wish:
I know life ain’t s’posed to be easy, baby, but maybe,
We can make it easier than this.

Chorus
If I quit pushing and you quit pulling,
And we stop always turning nothing into something.
If we quit saying things that always leave a mark,
Baby, love [G/B]don’t have to be so hard.

Now I know sometimes, my eyes’ll look right through you,
And they make you feel like you ain’t even there.
When you’re mad, there ain’t nobody better,
At making me feel like you just don’t care.
So here’s some coffee with the cream and sugar like you like it, baby.
From a man who wants the way it was to be the way it is.
An’ I know it ain’t gonna be easy, baby, but maybe,
We can make it easier than this.

If I quit pushing and you quit pulling,
And we stop always turning nothing into something.
If we quit sayin’ things that always leave us scarred,
Baby, love d[G/B]on’t have to be;
Love [G/B]don’t have to be;
Love [G/B]don’t have to be so hard.
C G Gsus2 C G Gsus2 C (repeat and fade)
It don’t have to be so hard.

Every now and then I go out with a friend or two
And have a few rounds
I make it home by ten but I remember when I used
To close that place down
The whiskey and the smoke and a couple tasteless jokes
Don’t taste the way they did
I just do it every now and then to remind myself why
I just do it every now and then

And every now and then I surrender to a whim, my wheels
Wind up west of town
And I turn down that street that just turns out to be a road
I shouldn’t go back down
All those memories they’ve turned to ghosts and weeds
I don’t wanna hurt like that again
I just do it every now and then to remeind myself why
I just do it every now and then

BRIDGE:
Sometimes I forget, why things in my past
Are things my past
Sometimes to see clear why I left there for here
I gotta take a step back

Every now and then I spend a minute with the man
I was ‘til I met you
And I wak those empty miles, reminisce and reconcile and I smile
At the me you never knew
He’s goot for a good laugh, but anything beyon dthat
I don’t wanna relive
I just do it every now and then to remind myself why
I just do it every now and then

BREAK

BRIDGE

Every now and then I go out with a friend or two
And have a few rounds

CHORDS:

D xx0232
G 320033
A x0222x
Bm x24432

INTRO: G D G D

She’s like the ocean, that takes my breath away
Endless and open, and in a moment she can change
Like water flowin’ and fillin’ up my soul
No way of knowin’ how deep she really goes
And sometimes I can predict her like the tides
And somedays her storm will take me surprise

CHORUS:
But I’m her rock upon the shoreline, I’m her piece of solid ground
And I’m the one that she can lean on[D/C#] when her waves come crashin’ down
And she’s afraid that with the rain I’ll [D/C#]drift away and disappear
But she’s my ocean, and I’m her island, I ain’t goin’ anywhere

INTRO

What she don’t know is before she came along
I was goin’ nowhere, so close to bein’ gone
Just another drifter lost at sea
Until the day her love surrounded me

CHORUS

SOLO: G D G D Bm D G A7

And she’s afraid that with the rain I’ll [D/C#]drift away and I’ll disappear
But I’m stayin’ right here
‘Cause she’s my ocean, and I’m her island, I ain’t goin’ anywhere
Yeah [D/C#]I’m her island

CHORDS without capo:

D F
D/C# F/E
G Bb
A7 C7
Bm Dm
Em Am

Asus2 002200
Bsus2 024400
Csus2 046600
E 022100

[(Asus2)] [(E)] [(Asus2)] [(E)]
There used to (Asus2) be a sign saying “Welcome To
(E) Population 82″
Just a (Asus2) little town with no line streets
Where (E) I loved you and you loved me
(Csus2) But there ain’t (Asus2) been a day of (E) sun
(Csus2) Since (Asus2) this town has be(Bsus2)come
(Asus2) Popul(Bsus2)ation 8(E)1

(Asus2) We used to lay beside the lake
(E) And talk about the plans we’d make
(Asus2) We’d build a house by that old oak tree
Make it (E) population 83
(Csus2) Now those (Asus2) dreams have turned to (E) dust
(Csus2) Since (Asus2) this town has be(Bsus2)come
(Asus2) Popul(Bsus2)ation 8(E)1

I threw a (Asus2) penny in the wishing well
And I (E) made a wish that wished you well
And I (Asus2) watched it sink away from me
A(Bsus2)way (E) from (Asus2) me

Now when (Asus2) I go down to the corner store
Where the (E) old men sit out on the porch
I (Asus2) hear what they don’t say to me
But they’ll (E) talk about it when I leave
(Csus2) Cause they (Asus2) know what’s done (E) is done
(Csus2) And that (Asus2) this town has be(Bsus2)come
(Asus2) Popul(Bsus2)ation 8(E)1

I (Asus2) took a walk out on the bridge
And I (E) dropped that diamond off the edge
And I (Asus2) watched it sink away from me
A(Bsus2)way (E) from (Asus2) me
A(Bsus2)way (E) from (Asus2) me…………

There used to (Asus2) be a sign saying “Welcome To
(E) Population 82″
Just a (Asus2) little town with no line streets
Where (E) I loved you and you loved me
[(Asus2)]awe (E) you loved me…
[(Asus2)](E)hmmmm hmmmm hmmmm
[(Asus2)](E)you loved me…
[(Asus2)]oh (E) I watched you slip away from me
[(Asus2)(E)(Asus2)(E)]

Capo 1

G Em D C (4x)

The hood’s up, the oil is leakin’
The bolt’s broken off and my knuckles are bleedin’
But the sun is shinin’ and the birds are singin’
And so am I

[-] [-] [-]
Now my sweet Daisy, pretty as a rose
In the back yard hangin’ out clothes
‘Cause that old Maytag’s broke
And so am I

Chorus
But she loves the life we’re livin’
Barefoot dancin’ in the kitchen
While I’m pi[G/F#]ckin’, one string missin’
And she don'[G/B]t seem to mind
Lord knows, she deserves better
Ain’t got two nickels to rub together
But, sweet D[G/F#]aisy, long as you’re happy, baby
So am I

Summer time, nights are gettin’ hotter
Sundown down by the water
I bait her hook an’ slip on a bobber
So she can wet a line

They ain’t bitin’, too hot I reckon
I look over at her and she’s winkin’
If she’s thinkin’ what I think she’s thinkin’
So am I

Chorus
We love the life we’re livin’
It feels so good skinny-dippin’
Skinny-dippin’ and long legs kickin’
In the Missippi mud line
Lord knows, she deserves better
Ain’t got two nickels to rub together
But, sweet Daisy, long as you’re happy, baby
So am I

Instrumental

G – C – G – D G – G/F# – Em – D – C – G

Chorus
She loves this life we’re livin’
Barefoot dancin’ in the kitchen
While I’m pickin’, two strings missin’
And she don’t seem to mind
Lord knows, she can do better
Ain’t got two nickels to rub together
But, sweet Daisy, long as you’re happy, baby
So am I
Sweet Da[G/F#]isy, long as you’re happy, honey
So am I
Yeah, so am I... [G/F#]

A lot has changed since I’ve been gone
But not my love for you
And I promised you nothin would keep me away
So I came back as fast as I could

I still bump around this old house sometimes
But I barely make a sound
I sure have traveled a long long way
Just to be hangin around

CHORUS:

Sweet Virginia, I still lay beside you
And when you’re dreamin that’s really me
And if you hear somethin there in the darkness
Don’t be afraid of what you can’t see
Just know that I always will be….here

I didn’t mean to give you a cold chill today
When you were holdin that picture of me
But I saw your tears so I reached for your hand
Forgettin how cold mine could be

And I made that breeze in the garden yesterday
Just to see you stop and smile
I know how you love the wind on your face
And besides I still need to touch you every once in a while

CHORUS

Sweet Virginia, I still lay beside you
And when you’re dreamin that’s really me
Just know that I always will be…..here

Intro

Asus2 x02200
Esus4 022200
Bsus2 x24422