Standard (EADGBE)
Chords: = 320033 [G/f#] = 200033
= 022033 Csus9 = X32033
= X00232
Intro
[G/f#] 2x
Verse i
[G/f#]
Last night I had me a nightmare
[G/f#]
Dreamed that Texas was burning down...burning down
And all them people, I had grown up to love
Leaving town
Chorus
[G/f#]
I cried "oh Holy Moses, bring blood to the Red Red Sea
[G/f#]
Bring back Townes Van Zandt, and my heroes back to me
Csus9 [G/f#]
Because I can play their songs, but it ain't they way they do
It ain't they way they do."
[G/f#]
I had a nightmare, a nightmare, it was a nightmare.
Verse ii
[G/f#]
Buddy Holly was riding on the wind
[G/f#]
Stevie Ray, well he was too
[G/f#]
When their star, come tumbling to the ground
Wasn't a thing that all the king's horses
And all the king's men could do
[G/f#]
Me I've just got my ol' bar stool
[G/f#]
And man it's burning me down...burning me down
[G/f#]
Just like a brush fire, that burns on through the night
One of these days I'm just going
These days I'm going to burn on out
Repeat Chorus
[G/f#] Csus9