New Orleans Chords by Jelly Roll Struggle Jennings

[Start]

[Intro]
D Bb Eb C Bb Eb
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[Verse]
G                                    
I was out here playin' devilish games
        G                                     
So it's only right I ended up set up in flames
Eb                                    
I'm a grown man so I'll never complain
    C                                          
I'm addicted to pain and bein' left in the rain
       G                                      
I just sit and think about what I never became
  G                                     
I pray everyday that I'm ready to change
Eb                                             
They say once it's bad that it's never the same
             C                            
It's like my car broke down on memory lane
G                                       
I can't wait 'til I face all the critics
                                                Eb   
That ain't never had to face the decisions that I had
                                                C      
To know if they had made the same ones shut the fuck up
                      C7               
You don't get paid to hate for a livin'
G                                          
It's so easy to point your finger and judge
    G                                         
Hop in the pig pen and get to swingin' the mud
                       Eb                     
Everything that we was everything we've become
C                                              
Every war that we won everything that I've done
                G             
Ha Lord can you hear my prayer
     G                                          
It's somethin' 'bout the city I can feel I swear
Eb                                          
I'm on my way God 'cause you're really there
C7                                         
Alabama to Mississippi now I'm almost there
C7                                             
Before I felt your presence I was almost scared
  G                                       
A trade with the Devil I was almost shared
        Eb                                    
Now I'm headed to the delta where no one cares
                               F                   
Where our souls are buried and loneliness is shared


[Chorus]
       G                                A      G     
In the darkness where the heartless and demons scream
     Eb                          C             G    
Been tryin' to come clean but it ain't what it seems
                          Eb             C          
I found a nightmare in my dreams down in New Orleans
    G                                             
The darkness where the heartless and demons scream
     Eb                       C                G    
Been tryin' to come clean but it ain't what it seems
                          Eb             C          
I found a nightmare in my dreams down in New Orleans


[Verse]
      G                             
Heard a rumor they was comin' for me
      G                                                         
Saw a glimpse into the future I was smilin' countin' blood money
Eb                                                  
Walkin' down the dark alley street lights flickerin'
C                    C7                 
Everything around me seemed so different
G                                                                
Figurin' I must be lost bad feelin' in my gut I gotta dust it off
        Eb                                     
I got a chip on my shoulder better brush it off
       C                                         
I keep reachin' for the gun havin' crazy thoughts
          G                                           
I heard a mother cryin' tears fallen from her old eyes
                                             Eb         
Pedal drops as a rose dies see it clear with closed eyes
                      C                                  
Gunshot then the crow flies night fall and the smoke rise
G                                                 
Couldn't see the beauty inside all of the darkness
G                                                     
Vengeance and love I get confused with being heartless
Eb                                         
Heartless cross me out for a couple dollars
C                          C7                         
Runnin' with the Devil and wonder what trouble follows
C7                                          
Standin' in the street surrounded by my past
G                                              
Every sin I ever committed is takin' me at last
Eb                                
Saw karma's face in a black hoodie
          C7                             
With some gold teeth and heard the police
                             G           
Heard a loud scream seen the barrel flash
     G7                     G             
Felt the sharp pain and now I can't breath
Eb                                 
Woke up from a dream in New Orleans
       C                          
Put my hands up as the choir sings


[Chorus]
       G                                             
In the darkness where the heartless and demons scream
     Eb                          C             G    
Been tryin' to come clean but it ain't what it seems
                          Eb             C          
I found a nightmare in my dreams down in New Orleans
    G                                             
The darkness where the heartless and demons scream
     Eb                          C             G    
Been tryin' to come clean but it ain't what it seems
                          Eb             C          
I found a nightmare in my dreams down in New Orleans


[Solo]
G Eb G Eb C7
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[Chorus]
C      C7       G7                                   
In the darkness where the heartless and demons scream
     Cm7                                       C     G
Been tryin' to come clean but it ain't what it seems ■
                          Cm7                       
I found a nightmare in my dreams down in New Orleans
                                            G     
The darkness where the heartless and demons scream
     Eb                       C                G    
Been tryin' to come clean but it ain't what it seems
                          Eb             C7          C
I found a nightmare in my dreams down in New Orleans ■


[End]