Nine Steps Down

D# D# G# Nine steps down on a ten story ride D# A# D# One part love and two parts pride D# G# Three tons of steel and four miles to go D# A# D# Sinking them down in the Gulf of Mexico D# D# G# Rigged on point, top of the tower D# A# D# Watch for those waves they’ll be rising fast D# G# Call to the driller down on the shore D# A# D# Derrickhand you better keep pumping that gas G# No time to think of the girls in their cotton D# Dresses they wear in the early springtime G# Memories here they’re all long forgotten G# A# D# Nine steps down on a ten story ride A# D# Nine steps down on a ten story ride D# D# G# All of the boys, thought you were beauty D# A# D# My motivation was a little less kind D# G# Come with me I got something to show you D# A# D# Out past the trees where the river runs wild G# My oh my you were more than I bargained D# For one time at the five and dime G# Spending all my nickels and quarters G# A# D# One part love and two parts pride A# D# One part love and two parts pride D# D# G# Put the hammer on down, we might just make it D# A# D# Watch your eyes, from drifting off the road D# G# Drink ‘em on down, five for a dollar D# A# D# Get it to the man with the weekly load G# The rubber on the tires burning like a matchstick D# Blacklist heart on a long ride home G# Ain’t no god just a lifetime of Sundays G# A# D# Three tons of steel and four miles to go A# D# Three tons of steel and four miles to go D# D# G# Waters rising, all around your mind D# A# D# The slack pulling fast but you try to keep loose D# G# There’s a storm rolling in on, New Orleans D# A# D# Gonna string everybody in a hang man’s noose G# Nine steps down on a ten story ride D# One part love and two parts pride G# Three tons of steel and four miles to go G# A# D# Sinking them down in the Gulf of Mexico G# A# D# Sinking them down in the Gulf of Mexico A# D# Sinking them down in the Gulf of Mexico D#