Slaid Cleaves - Broke Down guitar chord
Slaid Cleaves - Broke Down
By axehappy - axehappy@
Play this with a capo on 1st fret.
Chord shapes and names are relative to position of capo.
D (Eb) = xx0232 G (Ab) = 320003
A (Bb) = x02220 D/Db (Eb/D) = x4x232
Bm (Cm) = x24432
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D
INTRO
D
Sherri had a pawn shop band of gold,
A sink full of dishes and a love grown cold.
G A
Along came a boy, pretty as the devil
D D/Db Bm
She took his hand the whole thing unravelled.
G A
There's no turnin' round,
D
It's broke down.
Billy took the ring, jammed it in his pocket,
Drove downtown and tried to hawk it.
G A
Down at the bottom of Lake Ponchartrain,
D D/Db Bm
There's a love note carved inside a wedding ring.
G A
Broke down, cracked and shattered,
D D/Db Bm
Left in pieces like it never even mattered.
G A
Broke down, torn and frayed,
D D/Db Bm
Ain't nothin' left you could give away.
G A
There's no turnin' round,
D
It's broke down.
G
Ain't no tellin' where love goes,
A D
Maybe down where the black river flows.
G A
Won't be coming back 'round,
D
It's broke down.
Baby in the backseat and another on the way,
Sherri thinks of Billy at the end of every day.
G A
Spends her nights waiting for real life to start,
D D/Db Bm
Listening to the sound of her double crossed heart.
G A
Broke down, cracked and shattered,
D D/Db Bm
Left in pieces like it never even mattered.
G A
There's no turnin' round,
D
It's broke down.
On the other side of town two lovers lie still,
Cigarette smoking on a window sill.
G A
There's a picture locked up in an old suitcase,
D D/Db Bm
Billy closes his eyes but he still sees her face.
G A
Broke down. cracked and shattered,
D D/Db Bm
Left in pieces like it never even mattered.
G A
Broke down, torn and frayed,
D D/Db Bm
Ain't nothin left you could give away.
G A
There's no turnin' round,
D
It's broke down.
Broke down.
