Jason Boland - Dark And Dirty Mile Chords

'Dark and Dirty Mile'
Jason Boland & The Stragglers
Performed at Glass Cactus June 2012

Standard Tuning - Capo 2

Intro:   A

Verse 1:
  A                              D
I refuse to spend the rest of my days
                        A
Trying to get away from all the things 
             E
I did when I knew not what I’d done
      A                                   D
Oh so young and tired and luck was not an item
                 A
My bottle always refused to hear them tell me
       E              A
Not to stare into the sun
     A                            D
This fornographic place told me a body was to be feared
         A                                 E
And then wanted at the same time friend if you figure how                
A                             D
Fear because it was a pathway to a mortal sin 
             A
And then you want it 
                           E                    A
‘Cause we’ll all be dust a few short years from now

Chorus:
       E                              D
It’s a broken hearted world that we inherit
E                               D
All we’re told to do is sit and bear it
             A     D                        A     D – E 
For a little while   on the dark and dirty mile

Verse 2:
   A                               D
It took a while at least for me to live enough ‘till I believed
    A                                     E
And don’t know what I heard and less than half of what I saw
       A
Market days have come and gone 
D
Some were lost and some were wrong
    A                                    E                 A
And the way back home we’ll figure out a place to place it all

Chorus:
       E                              D
It’s a broken hearted world that we inherit
E                               D
All we’re told to do is sit and bear it
             A     D                       A           
For a little while   on the dark and dirty mile
D                           A
   We’re all family here in trail 
D                         A   D
   On this dark and dirty mile

Instrumental:
A – D – A – D – A – D – A – D – E – A 

Verse 3:
A                       D
Finally I realized that knowledge better make you wise
   A                              E
Or all the knots you learned will leave you in a ball
    A      
Helpless as when we were born
D                       A
Thread of hair and held out shivering
                E            A
As summer gives way to early fall

Chorus:
       E                              D
It’s a broken hearted world that we inherit
E                               D
All we’re told to do is sit and bear it
             A     D                       A           
For a little while   on the dark and dirty mile
D                           A
   We’re all family here in trail 
D                         A   D
   On this dark and dirty mile

Outro:
A – D – A – D – A – D – A – D – E – A 

Enjoy. I pretty sure he said he wrote this song Stoney. This is not on an album, so this is the best I could do with my video recording.