Am
The show last night was sold out
         F
Wrote it large cross the marquee
      G
But tonight I'm hanging back down
       Am
On the corner selling weed
    Am
I'm proof that what you're looking at
      F
Ain't always what you see
     G
Last night I played the Opry
      F         G       Am
But tonight I'm selling weed
   F     G
Oh ho oh ho


[Verse 1]
       Am
In the alley by the Ryman
          F
Where the legends used to walk
       G
Lies a hundred years of dead careers
   Am
Outlined in tears and chalk
  Am
I hate to pull the curtain back
   F
On everything you thought
            G
But in this town it's pray and pay to play
    Am
And number one's are bought


[Verse 2]
          Am
All these nudie suits, guitar shaped pools
    F
And big ol' Cadillac's
    G
The stars don't talk, the tricks they've turned
     Am
That got them where they're at
    Am
Sometimes I hold a guitar
    F
Man Sometimes I hold a stash
    G
Sometimes I play the guitar
            Am
Sometimes I take old Johnny's cash


[Pre-Chorus]
F            G            Am
 Quick as it comes it can go
F                   G
 You wanna know how I know


[Chorus]
    Am
The show last night was sold out
         F
Wrote it large cross the marquee
      G
But tonight I'm hanging back down
       Am
On the corner selling weed
    Am
I'm proof that what you're looking at
      F
Ain't always what you see
     G
Last night I played the Opry
      F         G       Am
But tonight I'm selling weed
   F     G
Oh ho oh ho


[Verse 3]
        Am
There's ghosts in all them houses
        F
Down on sixth and seventeenth
       G
If you listen close they'll whisper son
     Am
That this ain't what it seems
        Am
They've heard the voice of angels
            F
Watched the Devil make his sale
           G
To all the dreamers and schemers
        Am
And the kings and queens that fell


[Pre-Chorus]
F                  G
 They've seen them come
                  Am
They've seen them go
F
 The revolving door
              G
They call the Row


[Chorus]
    Am
The show last night was sold out
         F
Wrote it large cross the marquee
      G
But tonight I'm hanging back down
       Am
On the corner selling weed
    Am
I'm proof that what you're looking at
      F
Ain't always what you see
     G
Last night i played the Opry
      F         G       Am
But tonight I'm selling weed


[Bridge]
       F             G
You'll try to find a different way
   Am
To say the same old thing
       F              G
You'll try to write a song
             Am
That someone else might wanna sing
       F              G
You'll sacrifice your heart and soul
    Am
For gold and stacks of green
                F
Cause when they hear you on the radio
    F
The folks back home ain't gonna know
       F
You're bowing down
             G
Bow to the machine
N.C.
      Now


[Interlude]
| Am      | F      | G     | Am     |
| Am      | F      | G     | Am     |
| F   G   | Am     | F     | G      |


[Chorus]
         Am
Well the show last night was sold out
         F
Wrote it large cross the marquee
      G
But tonight I'm hanging back down
       Am
On the corner selling weed
    Am
I'm proof that what you're looking at
      F
Ain't always what you see
     G
Last night I played the Opry
      F         G       Am
But tonight I'm selling weed
   F     G
Oh ho Oh ho