Intro
D2 Dmaj E A
D E
The air is getting hotter
D A
There's a rumbling in the skies
D E
I've been wading through the high muddy water
D A
With the heat rising in my eyes
Cdim D2
Every day your memory grows dimmer
Bm A
It doesn't haunt me like it did before
D E
I've been walking through the middle of nowhere
D A
Trying to get to heaven before they close the door
D E
When I was in Missouri
D A
They would not let me be
D E
I had to leave there in a hurry
D A
I only saw what they let me see
CDim D2
You broke a heart that loved you
Bm A
Now you can seal up the book and not write anymore
D E
I've been walking that lonesome valley
D A
Trying to get to heaven before they close the door
D E
People on the platforms
D A
Waiting for the trains
D E
I can hear their hearts a-beatin'
D A
Like pendulums swinging on chains
Cdim D2
When you think that you lost everything
Bm A
You find out you can always lose a little more
D E
I'm just going down the road feeling bad
D A
Trying to get to heaven before they close the door
D E
I'm going down the river
D A
Down to New Orleans
D E
They tell me everything is gonna be all right
D A
But I don't know what "all right" even means
Cdim D2
I was riding in a buggy with Miss Mary-Jane
Bm A
Miss Mary-Jane got a house in Baltimore
D E
I been all around the world, boys
D A
Now I'm trying to get to heaven before they close the door
D E
Gonna sleep down in the parlor
D A
And relive my dreams
D E
I'll close my eyes and I wonder
D A
If everything is as hollow as it seems
Cdim D2
Some trains don't pull no gamblers
Bm A
No midnight ramblers, like they did before
D E
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