Intro
E2 Emaj F# B
E F#
The air is getting hotter
E B
There's a rumbling in the skies
E F#
I've been wading through the high muddy water
E B
With the heat rising in my eyes
Cdim E2
Every day your memory grows dimmer
C#m B
It doesn't haunt me like it did before
E F#
I've been walking through the middle of nowhere
E B
Trying to get to heaven before they close the door
E F#
When I was in Missouri
E B
They would not let me be
E F#
I had to leave there in a hurry
E B
I only saw what they let me see
CDim E2
You broke a heart that loved you
C#m B
Now you can seal up the book and not write anymore
E F#
I've been walking that lonesome valley
E B
Trying to get to heaven before they close the door
E F#
People on the platforms
E B
Waiting for the trains
E F#
I can hear their hearts a-beatin'
E B
Like pendulums swinging on chains
Cdim E2
When you think that you lost everything
C#m B
You find out you can always lose a little more
E F#
I'm just going down the road feeling bad
E B
Trying to get to heaven before they close the door
E F#
I'm going down the river
E B
Down to New Orleans
E F#
They tell me everything is gonna be all right
E B
But I don't know what "all right" even means
Cdim E2
I was riding in a buggy with Miss Mary-Jane
C#m B
Miss Mary-Jane got a house in Baltimore
E F#
I been all around the world, boys
E B
Now I'm trying to get to heaven before they close the door
E F#
Gonna sleep down in the parlor
E B
And relive my dreams
E F#
I'll close my eyes and I wonder
E B
If everything is as hollow as it seems
Cdim E2
Some trains don't pull no gamblers
C#m B
No midnight ramblers, like they did before
E F#
I been to Sugar Town, I shook the sugar down
E B
Now I'm trying to get to heaven before they close the door