Between The Stirrup And The Ground Chords

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GDust and the sand rise to Cblock out the Gsun

 In the distance a rider is Driding

GHis face has the look of a Cman who's on the Grun

 Or maybe it's just Dsomething he's Ghiding

Ties up his horse edge of the town

Walks like he knows where he's going

Passes a note to a girl there in a gown

What he's thinking there's no way of knowing

Looks in her eye and he looks at the ground

What he's thinking ain't no analyzing

Turns on his heel and he heads out of town

Out to where the trail meets the horizon

GAnd he's damned

 And he's Ddamned

GDamned between the stirrup and the Cground

GEverything he Bsought Emnever to be Afound

 Left him Gdamned between the Dstirrup and the Gground

In a town where the winners are just passing through

And the losers are only half living

And the men drink their wages and do what men do

And the girls do more taking than giving

There's a girl with red hair and a fire in her eyes

She don't care for the men she's a pleasing

They put ten dollar bills down the front of her thighs

But she's saving her cash for a reason

She waits for the man gonna take her away

Who won't care what she's done for a living

And he promised he'll make it maybe today

She's hoping he'll do some forgiving

And she's dammed

And she's damned

Damned between the stirrup and the ground

Everything she longed for never come around

Left her damned between the stirrup and the ground

So the man rides away with some dust in his eyes

Makes 'em water as if he was crying

The girl buys a round and laughs until she cries

She don't care if she's living or dying

And a drunk at the bar pulls a ten dollar bill

Strokes her red hair with his fingers

And a girl takes the money and gives him a thrill

But her feeling of emptiness lingers

Tracks of the horseman are soon buried deep

By the hot desert breeze in the west

And he rides like the wind and she sells herself cheap

There just doing the thing they do best

And they're damned

And they're damned

Damned between the stirrup and the ground

All the souls are lost frozen to the ground

They're just damned between the stirrup and the ground

And they're damned

Yes they're damned

Damned between the stirrup and the ground

All the souls that wander never to be found

Damned between the stirrup and the ground

All the little souls that don't know where they're bound

Damned between the stirrup and the ground