Primer Coat(Chords)

	        Intro: D G Em G (x2) 

Verse 1:
  D                    G              Em               G 
The old man's out by the swimming pool, he goes there to think 
   D             G               Em                G 
He talks on the phone sometimes, hardly mentions a thing 
D                 G                 Em                   G 
Said he needed it for his knees, he used to swim back in school 
D             G    Em             G 
Graduated in 84, quit drinking in 92 

Verse 2:
D                     G           Em                      G 
He used to call her a basket case for hanging on like she did 
D                  G               Em                     G 
The only girl of a foreman's wife, she'd never let him forget 
D            G                     Em                         G 
It comes to women and they survive but when the same comes to men 
D                       G        Em                      G 
Someone comes for their babies, something dies there and then 

Bridge:
A                  G                D                    C 
Slinging gravel in parking lots and looking tough on the hood 
C                    Bm          A                       G 
A girl as plain as a primer coat leaves nothing misunderstood 
G                        D                  C                 Em 
Her mother and I through trembling lips, a steady hand on his own 
    D               G                          Em             G 
The future of every rebel cause, when all the fight in him's gone 

Verse 3:
D                           G          Em                 G 
My sister's marrying in the spring and everything will be fine 
D                    G       Em                  G 
Mama's planning the wedding, Daddy's planning on crying 
D                          G             Em                 G 
She's slipping out of her apron strings, you best leave him be 
D                            G           Em            G 
He's staring through his own taillights and gathering speed
	        

Written by Mike Cooley