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