OUT AMONG THE STARS
Merle Haggard
Album: Out Among The Stars
Submitted by: Christopher R.
7/11/2022

Intro: (E) (Esus4) (E) (Esus4) x 2

It's (E) midnight at a liquor store in (A) Texas.
Ben(E)eath the neon, close up's just be(B)gun. (B7)
When a (E) boy walks in the door and points a (A) pistol. (F#)
He can't (E) find a job, but (B7) man, he's found a (E) gun.

(E) (Esus4) (E) (Esus4)

But a change of heart before there's confrontation.
Let's the old man live and run out in the street.
But he knows that soon they'll come with guns a blazing.
And already he can feel a great relief.

(Esus4) (E) (Esus4)

  Oh (E) how many travelers get (D) wear(A/C#)y, (A)
  (E) Bearing both their burdens and their (B) scars,
  (D) Don't you think they'd love to stop compla(D)in(A/C#)ing, (A)
  And (E) fly like eagles (B) out among the st(E)ars.

(Esus4) (E) (Esus4)

He pictures the arrival of the cruisers.
Sees that old familiar anger in their eyes.
He knows that when they're shooting at this loser,
They'll be aiming at the demons in their lives.

(REPEAT CHORUS)

The evening news it carries all the details.
He dies in every living room in town.
And in his home a bottle's thrown in anger.
And his father cries, "We'll never live this down."

(REPEAT CHORUS)

 Ohhhh and (E) fly like eagles (B) out among the st(E)ars. (Esus4) (E) (Esus4) (E) (Esus4) (E) (Esus4)