Peace Of Mind

Capo: 1st fret [Verse 1] E He drinks orange juice and vodka In the basement while she's talkin' B7 To someone, long-distance, for hours and hours on end B7 And as he's slowly sippin' he thinks about his children E And the heart attacks that youngest daughter's always given him E He ain't smoke no marijuana since he got on with the railroad E7 A And he's been on with the railroad for a long and loathsome while E But the day that he retires, he'll smoke himself to China B7 E He'll leave behind his worries as he races through the skies Chorus (Walkup) A The days are dark E Down in the holler B7 E E7 Waitin' for the sun to shine A On the back E You have been breakin' B7 Tryin' to earn E Peace of mind [Verse 2] E She sells Avon to her buddies and saves a little money B7 On the makeup she's been using to hide away the years B7 And she sits and watches TV usually every evening E That there ain't some kind of ballgame that her daughter has to cheer E She sneaks menthols in the mornin' while her family's still a snorin' E7 A And as she burns the Eggos she looks back at her life. E That heart she broke in high school he is singin' on the Opry B7 E She wonders what the hell that she was thinkin' at the time Chorus (Walkup) A The days are dark E Down in the holler B7 E E7 Waitin' for the sun to shine A On the back E You have been breakin' B7 Tryin' to earn E Peace of mind Interlude B7 E [Verse 3] E Their youngest daughter Stella, she's runnin' with this fella B7 That he can not stand the thought of that he surely does despise B7 He's told her he best never see the two of them together E But it's hard to keep an eye on her when you're workin' all the time E There are things he needs to tend to, and the bills the bank keeps sendin', E7 A Lord the zeroes on the end keep pushing further to the right. E Like a freight train haulin' sorrow and movin' ever onward B7 E Through the tunnel of forever to the never endin' light