Call It Sleep Chords
Call It Sleep by Slaid Cleaves is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C with a capo on the 3st fret. It uses the chords C, Am, F and G. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro: C ~ Am F
C ~
You're a working man with a welder's tan
Am F
A sky blue ford you bought second hand
C ~
You drive on down to the factory
Am F
You drive on down because it's your job you see
C ~
Carry your thermos underneath your arm
Am F
Little coffee and bourbon will help you through the morn
C ~
You crack wise with the boys, so it don't bring you down
Am F
Time ain't nothing but the world spinning round
G
You call it sleep
F
There's a car out on the four lane
G
You call it sleep
F
Rain on the window pane
G
Call it sleep
F
It's all the same
C ~
You stop off down at the Palomino Club
Am F
The neon sign says, "We've Got Your Bud"
C ~
It's a cinderblock building on a gravel parking lot
Am F
It's Friday night, you're out to spend every cent you got
C ~
So you dance the floor with a Mexican girl
Am F
She's got whiskey on her breath, smoke in her curls
C ~
Hands holding cigarettes and faces you don't know
Am F
You sit at the bar until it's time to go
G
You call it sleep
F
There's a car out on the four lane
G
You call it sleep
F
Rain on the window pane
G
Call it sleep
F
It's all the same
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