Jason Boland - Backslider Blues Chords

(Capo)
BACKSLIDER BLUES
JASON BOLAND
PEARL SNAPS

CAPO II:

D Bm A

D      
No doubt the prayers of my mother
      Bm                      A
Have taken me aways down the line,
     G                        D
And I'd swear the life of my sister,
                                            A
Well she's brighter than the sun when she shines.
    D            
And I have been baptized in water,
Bm                       A
I have been baptized in fire
          G                            D
And I've knelt with both hands on the altar
     A         G            D
And I've even sang in the choir.
               Bm                     G            D
There've been forks in the road when I've had to choose...
   A                         G           A          D
I pray He'll forgive me for singin' the backslider blues.

CHORUS:
             G                       D
Yeah the backslider blues ain't a hard song to sing.
     Bm               G              D          A
You know right from wrong, you just don't do a thing.
 G                            D        
Stand there alone, feelin' battered and bruised,
 Bm           A         G
Singin' the backslider blues. -

D Bm A

To the neon haze of the bar.
To the liquor that's left me the scars.
To the clothes strung all 'cross the floor.
To the times that I've ran out the door.
Been taken by surprise by some women and rouge,
And I pray He'll forgive me for singin' the backslider blues.

And I hope that we can all make it
To the place where true freedom rings
And I pray that they have us some guitars
So we can walk through the red buds and sing.
Never know when you're out on life's highway,
Gabriel might pull up to you.
He'll say "Child, climb in and ride shotgun
And we'll see what this big rig can do".
There'll be nothin' more to say and nothin' left to lose.
He'll have forgotten when we sang the backslider blues.

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