Red Ragtop Chords by Tim McGraw
- Key: G
- BPM: 77
- Capo: no capo
DOWNBEAT
RED RAGTOP CHORDS
[Start] [Verse] G Am7 G ■ ■ I was twenty and she was eighteen Am7 C G Am7 We were just about as wild as we were green in the ways of the world ■ G She'd pick me up in that red ragtop Am7 C G We were free of the folks and hiding from the cops on a summer night Am7 Running all the red lights G And we'd park way out in a clearing in a grove Am7 And the night was as hot as a coalburning stove G Am7 We were cooking with gas knew it had to last [Chorus] C G Am7 In the back of that red ragtop ■ C G Am7 She said Please don't stop [Verse] G Well the very first time her mother met me Am7 G Am7 Am Her greeneyed girl had been a mothertobe for two weeks ■ G I was out of a job and she was in school Am7 And life was fast and the world was cruel G We were young and wild Am7 We decided not to have a child G So we did what we did and we tried to forget Am7 G And we swore up and down there would be no regrets in the morning light Am7 But on the way home that night [Chorus] C G Am On the back of that red ragtop ■ C G Am7 G She said Please don't stop loving me Am7 C G Am7 Am Em ■ We took one more trip around the sun C G Am Am7 But it was all makebelieve in the end ■ C G Am7 Am Em No I can't say where she is today ■ Am7 Bm7 I can't remember who I was back then [Inst] Am7 Am G Am7 ■ ■ ■ ■ [Verse] G Well you do what you do and you pay for your sins Am7 And there's no such thing as what might have been G Am7 That's a waste of time drive you out of your mind G Am7 I was stopped at a red light just yesterday beside a young girl in a cabriolet G Am7 And her eyes were green and I was in an old scene [Chorus] C Bm Am I was back in that red ■ ragtop C G Am Am7 G On the day she stopped ■ loving me Am7 C G Am7 Am Am7 ■ I was back in that red ragtop ■ ■ ■ C G Am7 G On the day she stopped loving me [Solo] Am7 G Am7 G Am7 G Am7 G ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ Am7 G Am7 G Am7 G Am7 G ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ [Outro] Am7 G Am Em Am G ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■