Jimmie Dale Gilmore


Your love is my rest 
(written by John Hiatt)

INTRO:(E) –(C#m) – (G#m) – (B)
      (E) –(C#m) – (G#m) – (B)

(E) These are the words that (C#m) cry out of me in the night (G#m)---(B)
(E) Like a buffalo herd from a (C#m) shotgun blast scattered in flight (G#m) (G#)

(A)I got a one track mind 
Going down a (E) one train line 
Living on (B) dreams half the time 
Going (E) west (E7)

(A) I gotta pick up speed 
Just to get (E) what I need 
The end of the (B) line guaranteed 
Your love is my (E) rest (B) 

(E) The coal catches fire and I’m (C#m) down the wire in a flash (G#m)---(B)
(E) That big old smokestack is (C#m) belching out black smoke and ash (G#m) (G#)

(A) So sad to think of 
Hurting the (E) one you love 
But surely that’s (B) what leaving does 
You would know (E) best (E7) 

(A)I gotta pick up speed 
Just to get (E) what I need 
The end of the (B) line guaranteed 
Your love is my (E) rest  
(B) Your love is my (E) rest 

Solo section
(E) –(C#m) – (G#m) – (B)
(E) –(C#m) – (G#m) – (G#)
(A) – (E) – (B)- (E) – (E7)
(A) – (E) – (B)- (E) –(B)


(E) I stand in the land of (C#m) Custer’s last stand and I grin (G#m)---(B)
(E) So this is where old (C#m) yellow-hair’s ghost-dance begins (G#m) (G#)

(A) I got the blood on my hands 
Can’t even (E) live where I stand 
I’m just a (B) travelling man 
Cursed or (E) blessed (E7)

(A) I gotta pick up speed 
Just to get (E) what I need 
The end of the (B) line guaranteed 
Your love is my (E) rest (B) 


(A) I gotta pick up speed 
Just to get (E) what I need 
The end of the (B) line guaranteed 
Your love is my (E) rest (B) 

Your love is my rest (E)
(B) Your love is my rest (E)