Waiting Around to Die Chords by Townes Van Zandt

[Start]

[Verse]
C#m7 C#m G#m7 B C#m
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                                                       F#m
Sometimes I don't know where this dirty road is taking me 
C#m                                    G#m
Sometimes I don't even know the reason why
      C#m                               F#m                       
But I guess I'll keep agamblin' lots of booze and lots of ramblin'
         C#m              G#m                C#m
But it's easier than just awaitin' around to die
                               F#m          
Oh one time friends I had a ma even had a pa
                             C#m             G#m  
Well he beat her with a belt once 'cause she cried
         C#m                           F#m              
She told him to take care of me headed down to Tennessee
          C#m              G#m                C#m
Well it's easier than just awaitin' around to die
                                   F#m           
I came age and I found a girl in a Tuscaloosa bar
       C#m                              G#m
Oh she cleaned me out and hit it on the sly
       C#m                                  F#m                    
Well I tried to kill the pain I bought some wine and hopped a train
C#m                     G#m                C#m
Seemed easier than just awaitin' around to die
                                F#m                
Had a friend said he knew where some easy money was
   C#m                             G#m
We robbed a man and brother did we fly
        C#m                                         F#m     
But the posse caught up with me and drug me back to Muskogee
         C#m      G#m7                  C#m   
And it's two long years awaitin' around to die


[Chorus]
                      C#m   
Oh but now I'm out of prison
  F#m                    
I got me a friend at last
C#m                                 G#m
He don't drink or steal or cheat or lie
       C#m           
Oh his name's codeine
         F#m                   
He's the nicest thing I've seen
C#m                            G#m        C#m
Well together we're gonna wait around and die
                               G#m        C#m
Yeah together we're gonna wait around and die


[End]