Merle and Me

Artist: David Allan Coe (English)
User: mackiel@msn.com
Duration: 130 seconds
Delay: 12 seconds
Chord names: Not defined
Abusive:
Comment: -

URL

Uploaded:
July 24, 2023, 9:11 PM
Get it on Google Play

Text

David Allan Coe
Merle And Me

 G D A G D (X2)

 G           D
Back in 1953
                             A
We stole a car old Merle And Me
                     G                D    G
Never thinking we'd be put in jail.
                                   D
You might say that we were green 
                             A
I was barely seventeen
                    G              D
When they put those bars between old Merle And Me.
 G                                  D
Late one night we hit the wall
                           A
Twenty feet we had to fall
                          G                       D
To the ground where we could craw into the weeds.
 G                                D
Waiting for that shotgun blast
                                  A
Never thinking we could last
                G                      D
We sure had to grow up fast, old Merle And Me.
[Chorus]
 G                                 D
We were young and crazy then
                           A
It was easy to pretend
                G                        D
Acting like we'd never been in reform school.
 G                         D
Looking danger in the eye
                                   A
Walking with our heads held high
              G                D
We were not afraid to die, old Merle And Me.

 G D A G D
 G                            D
We were living by the gun
                             A
Never caring what wed done
                             G       D
Swearing it was all just fun and games you know.
 G                          D
We would die and go to hell
                                   A
Before we broke our vow to tell
                  G                      D
How we escaped that prison cell, old Merle And Me.
 G                                 D
How was Merle or Me to know 
                                   A
We would end up on death row
                 G                     D
Waiting for our turn in the electric chair.
 G                                  D
Shot down in a grocery store
                           A
We got busted at the door
                G                   D
Praying wasn't easy for, old Merle And Me.
[Chorus]
 G                                 D
We were young and crazy then
                           A
It was easy to pretend
                G                        D
Acting like we'd never been in reform school.
 G                         D
Looking danger in the eye
                                   A
Walking with our heads held high
              G                D
We were not afraid to die, old Merle And Me

 G D A G D (X2)

Comments