The Bird Hunters
Turnpike Troubadours
Album: Turnpike Troubadours (2015)
C to D walk in the bridge. Not sure what the chord is called, but it's labeled as B/C here.
Intro:
|G |G |C |G |C |G |D |D
|G |G |C |G |C |G |D |Em
|Em|G |G
Verse:
|Em |G
The covey took wing
|D |G
Shotguns a singing
|C |G |D
A pointing dog down in the old logging road
|Em |G
Danny got three
|D |G
And looked back a grinning
|C |G |D
I fumbled around and I tried to reload
|C |G
The country was cold
|D |G
With the sun westward sinking
|C |G |D
It's good to be back in this place
|C |G
With my hands around
|D |G
A Belgian made Browning
|C |G |D
My mind on the lines of her face
|Em |G
Well now Danny's my buddy
|D |G
We grew up like family
|C |G |D
Hunted this timber before we could drive
|Em |G
The old English pointer
|D |G
He once belonged to me
|C |G |D
But I gave him up when I moved in '05
|C |G
Off to the girl
|D |G
Off to the city
|C |G |D
Off on a wing and a chance
|C |G
Hell I thought it'd play out
|D |G
Just like some story
|C |G |D
We fell in love at a rodeo dance
Chorus:
|G |C |G
She said go on back to Cherokee County
|C |G |D
Won't you crawl back with nothing but a razor and a comb
|G |C |G
Babe, if you need me, I'll be where you found me
|C |G |D |Em |Em|G
Go on to hell, honey, I'm headed home
Verse:
|Em |G
Dan says, "Look at old Jim
|D |G
A dozen Decembers
|C |G |D
Behind him no worse for the wear
|Em |G
And your time spent in Tulsa
|D |G
Did not help your shooting
|C |G |D
And look at the gray in your hair
|C |G
How good does it feel?
|D |G
You belong in these hills
|C |G |D
It's best that you let it all end
|C |G
If you'd have married that girl
|D |G
You'd have married her family
|C |G |D
You dodged a bullet my friend"
Chorus:
|G |C |G
She said go on back to Cherokee County
|C |G |D
Won't you crawl back with nothing but a razor and a comb
|G |C |G
Babe, if you need me, I'll be where you found me
|C |G |D |Em |Em|G
Go on to hell, honey, I'm headed home
Bridge:
|Em
I was beginning
|D
To deal with it ending
|C |B/C |G |D
The old dog had pointed while part of me died
|Em
And a flutter of feathers
|G
Then a shotgun to shoulder
|C |B/C |D
I thought of the Fourth of July
|C |B/C |D
She'll be home on the Fourth of July
|C |B/C |D
I bet we'll dance on the Fourth of July
Solo:
|G |G |C |G |C |G |D |D
|G |G |C |G |C |G |D |Em
|Em|G |G |G |G
Verse:
|C |G
Dan says, "Hell of a shot
|D |G
Looks like you've still got it
|C |G |D
That's what we came here to do
|C |G
It's light enough still
|D |G
At the foot of the hill
|C |G |D
We could kick up a single or two"
Chorus:
|G |C |G
She said go on back to Cherokee County
|C |G |D
Won't you crawl back with nothing but a razor and a comb
|G |C |G
Babe, if you need me, I'll be where you found me
|C |G |D |G
Go on to hell, honey, I'm headed home
|C |G |D |Em |Em|G
Go on to hell, honey, I'm headed home
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