Anything But Tame

D G/A A7 D

[Verse]
D                                
When our feet were tough as horn 
F            D             G/A
and our eyes were sharp as flint,
And our hearts beat like two war 
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drums, and you tracked me by my 
D
scent,
D                                 
Cross a scape of shiny asphalt, 
               G/A
that blacked our soles with tar,
D                     A7         
And we ran like brave commanches,
                   D
 on a moonlit reservoir.

[Chorus]
              G
And you said, I don't wanna be tamed
 down,
A7                      F#m
I just wanna saddle up, ride my 
broomstick pony,
Along some salt grass open plain, 
           G
you really showed your hand,
                          A/E      
Popping off tin cans with your 
       Em7
daisy pump air rifle,
    A                 A7   Em    
And your Annie Oakley aim, you 
                D
were anything but tame.

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D                                 
Ah you'd summon me with bird call,
                     G/A
 or you scratching at my screen,
     D/A                         
Your mouth gone sweet with juicy 
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fruit, tawny legs and cut off jeans,
In my stretchy Ford Ranchero, Ah we 
G/A
rattled like train cars,
                       A7        
And we slung our share of gravel, 
            G/A        D
'neath a tarpoline of stars.

[Chorus]
D
And you said
G/A
I don't wanna be tamed down, I don't
 wanna give an inch,
    F#m
The fenced off picture perfect in 
your billfolds window frame,
            G
Ah you were born to romp in this God
 forsaken swamp,
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Dodging cotton mouths and 
     A                   A7
quicksand on your tiptoes in the 
rain,
            D
You were anything but tame.

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Gmaj7              D             
I heard Shreveport didn't last 
             Gm
and we lit out for L.A.,
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But when lightning claws the night 
          F#m     G        D
up, I can see you plain as day,
And when I want to feel you near me,
   G/A
 I crawl down off my cloud,
                   A7           
And pull on down a bayou and cry 
               D
your name out loud.

[Chorus]
              G/A
And you said, I don't wanna be tamed
 down,
                                F#m
I don't wanna tread regret, and flat
 out make excuses,
For the way I came up lame, I could 
     G
have been enough,
To live this off the ciff on the 
A7      Em7
cutting edge of nowhere,
          A                F#m   
Where the sun goes down in 
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flames, we were anything but tame,
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Anything but tame.