The Real Trick - Ray Wylie Hubbard Chords
Chords: E, A, B
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Genre: blues, country, folk
The Real Trick - Ray Wylie Hubbard
[Intro]
E
[Verse]
A E
Christopher turned sixteen on a chemical dependency wing
A
And on family week his mama come up and she says "I ain't gonna stay for this
E
whole thing"
A
She says "I've got more important things to do than to listen to this
E
ungrateful son"
B A E
Chris said "If being a parent's so tough how come just anybody can be one?"
[Verse]
A E
Sweet Melissa, she turned her first trick at seventeen
A E
For some backstage passes and some hash that's in the back of a limousine
A E
And now she's seen it all and she don't want to be here or even anywhere
B A
And at twenty-two she's got what the boys down at the VA call the
E
"thousand-yard stare"
[Chorus]
A B E
But the real trick is to find a reason to believe in spite of all of this
A B E
And the big secret is, what you're lookin' for, you're lookin' with
[Verse]
A E
Miss Helen Petty, she lost her husband of forty-two years
A
Now she don't know what to do with herself and she just can't seem to stop
E
the tears
A E
And she can't sleep at night and she is so afraid and so alone
B A E
But there are these bastards who take advantage of these precious souls
[Verse]
A
Like, there's this man on Sunday morning on TV who jumps around and screams
E
and shouts
A E
And he says to get me into heaven is the only thing that he is about
A E
But to get there I've got to believe what he believes
B A E
Well if that's the case I believe I'll take my chances when it's time for me
to leave
[Chorus]
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