{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":2117985,"song":"Merle And Me","artist":"David Allan Coe","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11459752-merle-and-me-chords-by-david-allan-coe/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2117985?type=chord","rating":4.76555,"votes":5,"content":"David Allan Coe \r\nMerle And Me\r\n\r\n[ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] (X2)\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBack in 1953[/tab]\r\n[tab]                            [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWe stole a car old Merle And Me[/tab]\r\n[tab]                    [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nNever thinking we'd be put in jail.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                  [ch]D[/ch]\r\nYou might say that we were green [/tab]\r\n[tab]                            [ch]A[/ch] \r\nI was barely seventeen[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWhen they put those bars between old Merle And Me.[/tab]\r\n \r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                  [ch]D[/ch]\r\nLate one night we hit the wall[/tab]\r\n[tab]                          [ch]A[/ch]\r\nTwenty feet we had to fall[/tab]\r\n[tab]                         [ch]G[/ch]                       [ch]D[/ch]\r\nTo the ground where we could craw into the weeds.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWaiting for that shotgun blast[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                 [ch]A[/ch]\r\nNever thinking we could last[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]G[/ch]                      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWe sure had to grow up fast, old Merle And Me.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWe were young and crazy then[/tab]\r\n[tab]                          [ch]A[/ch]\r\nIt was easy to pretend[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]G[/ch]                        [ch]D[/ch]\r\nActing like we'd never been in reform school.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nLooking danger in the eye[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                  [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWalking with our heads held high[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWe were not afraid to die, old Merle And Me.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWe were living by the gun[/tab]\r\n[tab]                            [ch]A[/ch]\r\nNever caring what wed done[/tab]\r\n[tab]                            [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]D[/ch]\r\nSwearing it was all just fun and games you know.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                          [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWe would die and go to hell[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                  [ch]A[/ch]\r\nBefore we broke our vow to tell[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]                 [ch]G[/ch]                      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nHow we escaped that prison cell, old Merle And Me.[/tab]\r\n \r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nHow was Merle or Me to know [/tab]\r\n[tab]                                  [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWe would end up on death row[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWaiting for our turn in the electric chair.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                  [ch]D[/ch]\r\nShot down in a grocery store[/tab]\r\n[tab]                          [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWe got busted at the door[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]D[/ch]\r\nPraying wasn't easy for, old Merle And Me.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWe were young and crazy then[/tab]\r\n[tab]                          [ch]A[/ch]\r\nIt was easy to pretend[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]G[/ch]                        [ch]D[/ch]\r\nActing like we'd never been in reform school.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nLooking danger in the eye[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                  [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWalking with our heads held high[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWe were not afraid to die, old Merle And Me.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] (X2)","plain_text":"David Allan Coe \nMerle And Me\n\nG D A G D (X2)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nG D A G D\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nG D A G D (X2)","chords":["G","D","A"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}