D

[Verse]
   D                              G
   Nine steps down on a ten story ride
D                 A         D
One part love and two parts pride
D                                     G
Three tons of steel and four miles to go
D                        A           D
Sinking them down in the Gulf of Mexico

[Interlude]
D

[Verse]
   D                           G
   Rigged on point, top of the tower
D                                A      D
Watch for those waves they’ll be rising fast
D                                 G
Call to the driller down on the shore
D                           A            D
Derrickhand you better keep pumping that gas


[Chorus]
   G
   No time to think of the girls in their cotton
D
Dresses they wear in the early springtime
G
Memories here they’re all long forgotten
G                    A         D
Nine steps down on a ten story ride
A                              D
Nine steps down on a ten story ride

[Interlude]
D

[Verse]
   D                              G
   All of the boys, thought you were beauty
D                                A      D
My motivation was a little less kind
D                                     G
Come with me I got something to show you
D                        A           D
Out past the trees where the river runs wild

[Chorus]
   G
   My oh my you were more than I bargained
D
For one time at the five and dime
G
Spending all my nickels and quarters
G                    A         D
One part love and two parts pride
A                              D
One part love and two parts pride

[Interlude]
D

[Verse]
   D                           G
   Put the hammer on down, we might just make it
D                                A      D
Watch your eyes, from drifting off the road
D                                 G
Drink ‘em on down, five for a dollar
D                        A           D
Get it to the man with the weekly load

[Chorus]
   G
   The rubber on the tires burning like a matchstick
D
Blacklist heart on a long ride home
G
Ain’t no god just a lifetime of Sundays
G                    A         D
Three tons of steel and four miles to go
A                              D
Three tons of steel and four miles to go

[Interlude]
D

[Verse]
   D                           G
   Waters rising, all around your mind
D                                A      D
The slack pulling fast but you try to keep loose
D                                 G
There’s a storm rolling in on, New Orleans
D                        A           D
Gonna string everybody in a hang man’s noose


[Chorus]
   G
   Nine steps down on a ten story ride
D
One part love and two parts pride
G
Three tons of steel and four miles to go
G                    A         D
Sinking them down in the Gulf of Mexico
G                    A         D
Sinking them down in the Gulf of Mexico
A                              D
Sinking them down in the Gulf of Mexico