Intro
A#2 A#maj C F
A# C
The air is getting hotter
A# F
There's a rumbling in the skies
A# C
I've been wading through the high muddy water
A# F
With the heat rising in my eyes
Cdim A#2
Every day your memory grows dimmer
Gm F
It doesn't haunt me like it did before
A# C
I've been walking through the middle of nowhere
A# F
Trying to get to heaven before they close the door
A# C
When I was in Missouri
A# F
They would not let me be
A# C
I had to leave there in a hurry
A# F
I only saw what they let me see
CDim A#2
You broke a heart that loved you
Gm F
Now you can seal up the book and not write anymore
A# C
I've been walking that lonesome valley
A# F
Trying to get to heaven before they close the door
A# C
People on the platforms
A# F
Waiting for the trains
A# C
I can hear their hearts a-beatin'
A# F
Like pendulums swinging on chains
Cdim A#2
When you think that you lost everything
Gm F
You find out you can always lose a little more
A# C
I'm just going down the road feeling bad
A# F
Trying to get to heaven before they close the door
A# C
I'm going down the river
A# F
Down to New Orleans
A# C
They tell me everything is gonna be all right
A# F
But I don't know what "all right" even means
Cdim A#2
I was riding in a buggy with Miss Mary-Jane
Gm F
Miss Mary-Jane got a house in Baltimore
A# C
I been all around the world, boys
A# F
Now I'm trying to get to heaven before they close the door
A# C
Gonna sleep down in the parlor
A# F
And relive my dreams
A# C
I'll close my eyes and I wonder
A# F
If everything is as hollow as it seems
Cdim A#2
Some trains don't pull no gamblers
Gm F
No midnight ramblers, like they did before
A# C
I been to Sugar Town, I shook the sugar down
A# F
Now I'm trying to get to heaven before they close the door