Local Drunk
By Jared "Pete" Gile
1/23/2010
Capo 4 to match recording
D A Bm G D A G
D A Bm G
This sure ain’t where I thought I'd be
D A G
If you’d asked me way back when
D A Bm G
Still single, drunk and Forty Three
D A G
In the same little town I grew up in
Sometimes the dreams you have when you are young
I guess they just decide to remain dreams
I ain’t too proud of the person that I ain’t become
But in here ain’t nobody judging me
A
Chorus:
D A
Don’t think that all you’ve found
Bm G
Is the local drunk of this little town
D A
I still pull my weight from 8 to 5
Bm G
I ain’t missed a day work since I been alive
D A
I know I spend a lotta time in this bar
F#m G
But it’s where my only real friends are
G A
People talk behind my back and I hear em run me down
G A D
Say I’m nothing more than the local drunk of this little town
I keep thinking maybe one of these days
Coming through them doors to change my life
Will be some woman though I don’t yet know her name
But I wait for her in here every night
Chorus
Now I know that I ain’t alone
Lot of wishful drinkers out there like me
Bellied up to the little bars that they call home
In the little towns they’ll never leave
Chorus
Chorus