Numbers On The Cars

Chords

4.9 (178)

novice Tuning: E A D G B E

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Intro

Verse 1

Stopped by that ho

use on Desmond

Lake

Sittin in his e

asy chair, watchin the Su

nday eve

ning ra

ce

Tells me my gra

ndmas in the other ro

om

Guess he forgot we la

id her down, it'll

be a y

ear come J

une

Chorus

Then he mumbles about Vietnam, h

e don’t know who the hell I am

But the dr

ivers, well he te

lls me who they a

re

I guess he

still knows the numb

ers on the car

s

Verse 2

Try to get him o

ut like we used t

o

Now I l

oad the truck and I dr

ive the boat, cause there a

in’t

much h

e can do

Cast him a line and wa

tched it as it sa

nk

Thinkin how he u

sed to talk for hou

rs, now h

e just st

ares at the ba

nk

Chorus

He used to know every stump in this fishin hole

Now he probably thinks that we’re in Mexico, b

ut he knows his

way around that

boat, even in the dark

He still knows the num

bers on the ca

rs

Hook

Well no he ai

n’t all there

, but I don’t care

My mi

nd's still full of mem

ories of h

im

And he m

ay not know all the wo

rds to the songs

But he still

knows Merle Haggards v

oice when he h

ears it

Verse 3

Stopped by that ho

use on Desmond

lake

With a couple of t

ickets to go see a Su

nday ev

ening r

ace

As we watched those c

ars fly around the tr

ack

I asked the Lord if

just one more time He'd

bring my

old friend

back

Chorus

Then somewhere around lap 23, the o

ld man turned and smiled at me

And for a mo

ment, I know he

knows where we a

re

Cause he still knows the num

bers

He still knows the num

bers

He still knows the num

bers on the ca

rs

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