G
[Verse]
G
A sundown on the San Joaquin
D
An old woman walks home from work
D
Another day in the fields
G
Another day in the dirt
[Verse]
G
She lights a sacred candle
C
Next to a faded photograph
D
And she says a prayer for a young man
G
Who fell between the cracks
[Verse]
G
She stares at the photo of the young man
D
Who caused her so much pain
D
In countless twelve round blood baths
G
When Kid Hey Zeus was his name
[Verse]
G
He was the pride of the valley
C
Until the night he stayed down on his back
D
He took the dive and he disappeared
G
Down between the cracks
[Chorus]
C G
She said, "Jesus was just a poor boy
C D
On the wrong side of the tracks
C Em
He rose again, but not before
D G
He fell between the cracks"
[Verse]
G
She re-reads all his letters
D
That he wrote her from L.A
D
He said, "Please don't worry about me
G
I'm coming home again someday"
[Verse]
G
Then she remembers the other stories
C
That were whispered behind her back
D
About a shooting outside a grocery store
G
Somewhere between the cracks
[Chorus]
C G
She said, "Jesus was just a poor boy
C D
On the wrong side of the tracks
C Em
He rose again, but not before
D G
He fell between the cracks"
[Instrumental]
G C Em D G
[Verse]
G
Sunrise on the San Joaquin
D
An old woman walks off to work
D
Another day in the fields
G
Another day in the dirt
[Verse]
G
She stares at all the children
C
Dropping rich men's fruit in their sacks
D
And she says a prayer for all the souls
G
Trapped between the cracks
[Chorus]
C G
She said, "Jesus was just a poor boy
C D
On the wrong side of the tracks
C Em
He rose again, but not before
D G
He fell between the cracks
C Em
And he rose again, but not before
D G
He fell between the cracks"