Wild Old Dog by Patty Griffin
Album: American Kid
Track 4
2013


Standard Tuning
Capo on the 6th fret


Chords:

C:     x32010
G:     320003 or 320033
Em:    x22000
D:     xx0232


  Intro:     C     G     Em     C

             C     G     D      C


C                   G
 God is a wild old dog
Em                        C
 Someone left out on the highway
                     G
 I seen him running by me
             D              G
 He don't belong to no one now


C                      G
 We dropped him out on 93
D                             C
 Mange was setting in on his hips and on his knees
                               G
 Between the highways running north and south
D                        C
 We pulled on over and we put him out

                              G
 Willie said he was old and going blind
D                     C
 Momma told me how she didn't mind
                              G
 When Willie kicked him with his shoe
           D                 C
 He just climbed on in just like he knew


C                   G
 God is a wild old dog
Em                        C
 Someone left out on the highway
                     G
 I seen him running by me
             D              G
 He don't belong to no one now


C                    Em
 It's lonely on the highway
               G                D
 Sometimes a heart can turn to dust
                       C
 Get whittled down to nothing
                  Em
 Broken down and crushed
              C
 In with the bones of
           D
 Wild old dogs
           C         
 Wild old dogs


 C      G     Em      C        

 C      G     D       C


                       G
 We dropped him out on 93
D                                  C
 Tall grass was waving there just like the sea
                               G
 He tore off running like we'd set him free
       D                     C
 Just disappeared right in front of me


C                   G
 God is a wild old dog
Em                        C
 Someone left out on the highway
                     G
 I seen him running by me
             D              C
 He don't belong to no one now
             D              G 
 He don't belong to no one now

 
 G    C    G    C    G     C    G


 End on G