Chords
Soft Shoulder

Key: A

Introduction:  Am   G  

 Am                                                       G 
        I don't keep much stuff around
 Am                                       G 
        I value my portability
 Am                                                         G 
        But I will say that I have saved
 Am                                                               G 
        Every letter you ever wrote to me
 Am                                                         G 
        The one you left on my windshield
 Am                                                 G 
        Outside of that little motel
 Am                                                                     G 
        Is in the pocket of my old gig bag
 Am                                                                               G 
        From back when life was more soft shelled
 Am                                                                   F 
      Letters littered with little lewd pictures
 Am                                                           F 
      Drawn by the ghost of Woody Guthrie
 Am                                                                 F 
      Who would use your big thick hand
                 G                                               F 
Just to draw one or two for me
 Am                                                                         G 
        And I think of your letters as love letters
 Am                                                           G 
        Which is how I think of songs
 Am                                                                           G 
        In that it is the writing of them
 Am                                                             G 
        That tends to carry us along
 Am                                                                               G 
        And I dance to one of your old tunes
 Am                                                                           G 
        With my true love on our wedding day
 Am                                                                                                         G 
        And your voice sang the way my heart would sing
 Am                                                                           G 
        If it finally knew just what to say
 Am                                                                         F 
      Two people pulled over on the same night
 Am                                                     F 
      To look up at the same stars
 Am                                                                             F 
      They both found their wheels were spinning in a soft shoulder
                     G                                                     F 
When they both got back into their cars
 Am                                                                                           F 
        And they missed fate's appointed rendezvous
 Am                                                                       F 
        And then a whole lotta time went by
 Am                                                                   F 
        And one day they were done worshipping the landscape
                             G 
And they just put down their hands
         F 
And moved into the sky

                 F 
And they had barely said hello
                                                             Am 
And it was time to say goodbye