Tim Mcgraw - Poets Resume Chords

[Intro]
C   Em F
C   Em F
 
 
[Verse]
         C          F        C
Washing dishes at a no name diner
            F                              C
Worked his way up to line cook on the weekdays
         Am         G           F
But his daydream's burning his dish towel he turned in
         C                 F         C
Another dead-end job on a poet's resume
 
 
[Verse]
       C          F         C
So he followed a lover out west
           F                       C
Where the sun sets on Pacific Palisades
          Am                G
When she slept with an old boyfriend
    F
It tore him up to no end
              C         F         C
Put all that pain on a poet's resume
 
 
[Chorus]
          F                           Em
When you work in heartache you still earn those callouses
 Dm7                  C
Words on a napkin in dead languages
 F                      Em
Everybody loves him but no one ever stays
         Dm7
Another whiskey to unwind
        C/E
Another less than perfect rhyme
         F                G         C
Another wasted line on a poet's resume
 
C   Em F
 
 
[Verse]
      C                  F              C
Fine line between being free and being lonely
            F                               C
It's blood from a stone and stoned on Percocet
             Am                   G
He don't believe in God but he's praying
       F
He'll find something worth saying
      C                F             C
In a new way no one's ever heard it said
 
 
[Chorus]
          F                           Em
When you work in heartache you still earn those callouses
 Dm7                  C
Words on a napkin in dead languages
 F                      Em
Everybody loves him but no one ever stays
         Dm7
Another whiskey to unwind
        C/E
Another less than perfect rhyme
         F                G         C
Another wasted line on a poet's resume
 
 
[Break]
        G                 Dm7
And he knows it's in his blood
     C                            G
His blood is on the page and the page will always turn
 
               G                Dm7
That's how it goes when you're young
         C                               G
When the only thing you're scared of is running out of words
 
 
[Instrumental}
F   Em7   Dm7 C F G
 
 
[Chorus]
          F                           Em
When you work in heartache you still earn those callouses
 Dm7                  C
Words on a napkin in dead languages
 F                      Em
Everybody loves you but no one ever stays
         Dm7
Another whiskey to unwind
        C/E
Another less than perfect rhyme
       F                       G
Maybe this will be the li-i-i-ine
                C   Em F
On a poet's resume
 
 
[Outro]
C   C/E F
C   C F C