Ragged Old Truck Chords
Ragged Old Truck by Billy Joe Shaver is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of A. It uses the chords A, D, B7, E and F#m. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
INTRO: A
A
Early this mornin' without any warnin'
D A
I took me a look at myself, Good God!
D A
I seen how this married up life I've been livin'
B7 E
Was tryin' to choke me to death
A
I laid on the bed with my gun to my head
D A
And I nearly 'bout ended it all
D A F#m
But I come to myself just before I got killed
D E A
And I blowed me some holes in the wall
A
I'm thinkin' 'bout crankin' my ragged old truck up
D A
And haulin' myself into town
D A
I'm thinkin' 'bout raisin' so doggoned much hell
B7 E
'Til I die before I live it all down
A
I lay around this place 'til I'm blue in the face
D A
And I may as well be underground
D A F#m
I'm thinkin' 'bout crankin' my ragged old truck up
D E A
And haulin' myself into town
SOLO
A honky tonk man in a honky tonk band
With a honky tonk girl on my arm
I may be as ugly as an old mudrail fence
But I'm loaded with hillbilly charm, that's right!
Yeah it's my life and no wife of mine's gonna tell me
I can't go and have me some fun
So before that old heffer drives back in from Waco
You can bet your rear end I'll be gone
CHORUS
D A F#m
Yeah I'm thinkin' 'bout crankin' my ragged old truck up
D E A
And haulin' myself into town