## NOTE 1: There are a few missing/incorrect lyrics indicated by ## ## parentheses . If you know them, please leave a comment ## ## below and I will make the corrections. Thank you. ## ## NOTE 2: There are a number of hammer-ons on the Em and A chords ## Intro: Driving across Nebraska with my southern sin Was cruising real nice and slow Driving across country with air on, it was fine There was no place that he'd rather go Been living too long in that one room shack Just living too damn long Woke up last night in a cold sweat thinking It was time to be gone No more friends behind him now And any more in front He was a bastard, to say it And he wasn't even very tall No more friends behind him now And any more in front He was a bastard, to say it And I guess that he didn't know INTERLUDE: Got to her house about 7 or 8 She was nowhere to be found Went around town asking folks If she'd been put in the ground Bridge: People'd heard of Earle's quiet, dirty pains And the sadness in his eyes and the hunger in his veins Expected as much, I guess nothing's forever She'd gone through a wind, but came in with the rain No more friends behind him now And any more in front He was a bastard, to say it And he wasn't even very tall No more friends behind him now And any more in front He was a bastard, to say it And I guess that he didn't know OUTRO: (2x)