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