David Chords & Lyrics Artist: Cody Jinks

Capo: 4th fret

INTRO
| C    | G    | D    | Em  D | C    | G    | D    | D
 
VERSE
          Am               C
My friend David was a good kid
          G                     Dsus4
He had my back I always knew he did
           Am                 C                    G
And he was different than most, and maybe I was too
            Am                                 C
And hanging out with the in crowd just wasn't our thing
            G                            Dsus4
There was a whole lot more than we could see on these plains
     Am                            C               G
Well some people just seem to get stuck, and hang around
     Am                          C
It's college or trade school for those with the means
        G                             Dsus4
There's never been any small town for those in between
         Am                    C                  G
Yeah the poor folks they go to work or they go to war
      Am               C
I did fifteen hundreds days in the corps
          G                           Dsus4
when I got back nothin looked the same anymore
      Am                    C                     G
I got on with the local police, it just seemed to fit
            Am
Things had changed
 
INSTRUMENTAL
| C    | G    | D    | Em  D | C    | G    | D    | D
 
VERSE
        Am               C
By then David had a daughter and a son
      G                           Dsus4
and a rap sheet to prove all the time that he'd done
              Am                   C                G
He was just a burned out beat down shell, of my old friend
         Am                     C
And on a three day binge he was speeding through town,
      G                     Dsus4
and I bumped the wailers to try and slow him down
          Am               C               G
He didn't know that it was me, and he took off
              Am
Oh how things change
 
CHORUS
                 C                       G
And I found his truck in the floodplain upside down
         D                       Em          D
It was a hell of a rain I don't know if he'd drowned,
         C                  G                     D
or if he died on impact. It must have rolled three times
              C             G
Yeah the only thing to make matters worse
            D                   Em D
is that his mama's a late night ER nurse
           C        G                   D
And he was DOA. She just about lost her mind
 
INSTRUMENTAL
| C    | G    | D    | Em  D | C    | G    | D    | D
 
BRIDGE
        Am                  C
David's wife drops by every once in a while,
    G                        Dsus4
and childhood stories always make her smile,
    Am                   C            G
but somehow we always go back to that day...
 
CHORUS
                 C                       G
When I found his truck in the floodplain upside down
         D                       Em          D
It was a hell of a rain I don't know if he'd drowned,
         C                  G                     D
or if he died on impact. It must have rolled three times
              C             G
Yeah the only thing to make matters worse
            D                   Em D
is that his mama's a late night ER nurse
           C        G                   D
And he was DOA. She just about lost her mind
             Am
Ain't it the times
 
OUTRO
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