A Couple Acres Greener Acordes

	  
Intro: Em    C    G    D - Cdim (2x)

     Em                      C 
I’ve never been so hungry,          
           G                          D             Cdim 
Seems like twenty-two years I’ve been looking for a fight 
Em                                C 
Never stayed in school for long,     couldn’t keep my patience on 
G                           D               Cdim 
   Never had the motivation quite to get my timing right 


PRE–Chorus 1 + 2: 
C                       G 
  (I want my story to begin)/(I want to celebrate my sins) 
          D                      Em      D 
There’s a time to save up and a time     to 
C                             G 
Spend    I’m to young for the past tense 
         D                   Cdim    Cdim    Cdim    D#dim    F#dim 
All this worrying about what might   have    been 


 

Em                                   C 
    Should have been a preacher man, let the good book show me where to 
G                     D        Cdim 
Stand in this earthly half-way home 
Em                                  C 
    Should have been a farmin’ man, teach my boy to plow the land 
G                               D            Cdim          (Em    C    G    D   Cdim) 
Leave this wicked winter just a couple acres greener when I go 

     Em                       C 
I’ve never been so thirsty to get my soul right 
    G                           D             Cdim 
But like a summer bug I’ve been burned by the blinding light 
Em                               C 
Never stayed in church for long, pop’lar peoples ‘n white folks songs 
G                           D       Cdim 
Sunday morning never was as real as Friday Night 


PRE–Chorus 2 + Chorus 


BREAK OVER VERSE CHORDS 


PRE–Chorus 3 (one strum each): 
C                             G 
    Some day they’ll write my name up on a 
D           Em                D 
Stone and I won’t be there to see it 
C                 G            D            Cdim   Cdim   Cdim   D#dim   F#dim 
    Up on Calv’ry calling me I know they’ll say    

Chorus x 2, second time a-capella