Slaid Cleaves - Broke Down

By axehappy - axehappy at countrytabs.com


Play this with a capo on 1st fret.
Chord shapes and names are relative to position of capo.


D     (Eb)   =   xx0232                  G     (Ab)   =   320003

A     (Bb)   =   x02220                  D/Db  (Eb/D) =   x4x232

Bm    (Cm)   =   x24432                  


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D
INTRO


D
Sherri had a pawn shop band of gold,

A sink full of dishes and a love grown cold.
G                 A
Along came a boy, pretty as the devil
    D        D/Db           Bm            
She took his hand the whole thing unravelled.
G                   A
 There's no turnin' round,
           D
It's broke down.



Billy took the ring, jammed it in his pocket,

Drove downtown and tried to hawk it.
G                      A
 Down at the bottom of Lake Ponchartrain,
          D         D/Db            Bm
There's a love note carved inside a wedding ring.
G           A           
Broke down, cracked and shattered,
D       D/Db           Bm       
Left in pieces like it never even mattered.
G           A
Broke down, torn and frayed,
D             D/Db           Bm
Ain't nothin' left you could give away.
G                   A
 There's no turnin' round,
           D
It's broke down.


G         
Ain't no tellin' where love goes,
A                    D
Maybe down where the black river flows.
G                    A
Won't be coming back 'round,
           D
It's broke down.



Baby in the backseat and another on the way,

Sherri thinks of Billy at the end of every day.
G                             A
Spends her nights waiting for real life to start,
D                D/Db         Bm
Listening to the sound of her double crossed heart.



G           A
Broke down, cracked and shattered,
D       D/Db           Bm
Left in pieces like it never even mattered.
G                   A
 There's no turnin' round,
           D
It's broke down.



On the other side of town two lovers lie still,

Cigarette smoking on a window sill.
          G                       A
There's a picture locked up in an old suitcase,
      D          D/Db        Bm
Billy closes his eyes but he still sees her face.


G           A
Broke down. cracked and shattered,
D       D/Db           Bm
Left in pieces like it never even mattered.
G           A
Broke down, torn and frayed,
D            D/Db           Bm
Ain't nothin left you could give away.
G                   A
 There's no turnin' round,
           D
It's broke down.

Broke down.