Turnpike Troubadours - Quit While I'm Ahead

      Quit While I'm Ahead
Turnpike Troubadours
Album: Goodbye Normal Street (2012)


[Verse 1]

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Well I wont lie and say I didn’t think the good ones all were taken 
            A                                E
Since there aint no peaches falling from the tree that I've been shaking 
         E        B7               C#m                A
And it's solitary sleeping in this bed that I've been making 
     E              B7             E
Well maybe I should quit while I'm ahead

          E                          
Well my intent was being handed I never laid a hand
          A                           E
And the kindness of my gesture was a good far cry from grand
           E          B7                 C#m            A
They were awful well intended, they were all that I can stand
    E              B7             E
Ah maybe I should quit while I'm ahead


[Chorus]

        B7  
And now darlin if I called you, could you love me like a kid
          E 
Could you love me like you loved me way back when you really did
     B7
Well Darlin if I called you could you just pick up the phone
                A
Lord, I've been dancing with damnation and I'm drinking all alone
         E                B7                 C#m             A
And I am busted broke and bent and beat and 'bout halfway to dead
   E              B7              E                   E              B7              E
Ah maybe I should quit while I'm ahead, oh Lord, well maybe I should quit while I'm ahead


*Instrumental break*
E A E B7 C#m A E B7 E

[Verse 2]

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Well West Texas in the morning, little darling are you down 
          A                            E
Where the color of the country is your sweet eye shade of brown 
         E              B7                   C#m            A
And if I told you how I felt, well you’d say boy get out of town
   E                B7             E
Well maybe I should quit while I'm ahead


[Chorus]

    B7
Now darlin if I called you, could you love me like a kid
          E
Could you love me like you loved me way back when you really did
     B7
Well Darlin if I called you would you even talk to me
           A
When I am lit up like a star atop your favorite Christmas tree
         E                B7                C#m               A
And I am busted broke and bent and beat and 'bout half way to dead
   E              B7            E                   E              B7             E
Ah maybe I should quit while im ahead, oh Lord well maybe I should quit while I'm ahead


*Instumental break*


[Chorus]


        B7  
And now darlin if I called you, could you love me like a kid
          E 
Could you love me like you loved me way back when you really did
     B7
Well Darlin if I called you could you just pick up the phone
                A
Lord, I've been dancing with damnation and I'm drinking all alone
         E                B7                 C#m             A
And I am busted broke and bent and beat and 'bout halfway to dead
   E              B7              E                   E              B7              E
Ah maybe I should quit while I'm ahead, oh Lord, well maybe I should quit while I'm ahead