Lucero – Toadvine chords

Artist: Ben Nichols / Lucero
Song:   Toadvine
Album:  The Last Pale Light in the West
Tuning: Standard

Note: "[lyrics]" are sung on the CD but not in the printed lyrics


INTRO:
  F   Am  Em  F   C   F   C   C

VERSE 1:
      F             Am             Em               F           [I] rode myself into the ground, hell it’s almost over now,
  C             F               C      C    I don’t see nothing but the light
  F          Am                  Em             F                       Darkness filled my days, the rising sun has shown the way, [and]
  C             F               C     C    I Don’t see nothing but the light

  Dm                          F                             The preacher’s lesson,     is simply Armageddon, 
      C                      G  The devil, he knows how to ride
  Dm                  F                               A killer of men,    and no way to save them,
  C                          G     Hell now we all have to die

  F       F


CHORUS:
  F                                    G     You wouldn’t think that out here,   a man could simply run clear
  Am                        Bb       F       Bb       F     Out of country but, oh my... oh my, [Oh my... oh my]
                         C   F   C   C  Nothing but the light


INSTRUMENTAL BRIDGE:

  F   Am  Em  F   C   F   C   C


VERSE 2:
       F               Am     Em                    F     They took my ears in Omaha, thought me dead but I weren’t all [and I]
  C            F               C    C     Left them bleeding in the mud
  F                    Am          Em                F     Branded me for horse thievery, between my eyes for all to see [and I]
  C            F               C    C     Left them bleeding in the mud

  Dm                             F             When this world was made,     [it] was never meant to save
  C              G     Everyone in kind
  Dm                       F             And I don’t believe,    God much had me
  C                  G      Had me much in mind

  F       F


CHORUS REPEAT:


INSTRUMENTAL BRIDGE:
  F       G       Am
  Bb      F       Bb      F
  C   F   C   C



ABRIDGED VERSE 3:
  Dm                       F             So tell me barkeep,     What is there to drink
  C                     G      With just minimal risk
  Dm                          F             Of blindness or death,      it all tastes of ashes
  C                            G             Seems that’s all we ever get, 
                   F       F  It's all we ever get


REPEAT CHORUS AS FINALE:



--crookedpath