Biography:
Gretchen Peters (born November 14, 1957 in Bronxville, New York) is an American singer-songwriter in the folk/country genre. An accomplished song-writer, she won the Country Music Association Song Of The Year award in 1994 for "Independence Day", a hit at the time for Martina McBride. She was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2014.
Though born in New York, Peter's was raised in Boulder, Colorado, and then moved to Nashville in the late 1980s.
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Other songs:
- Billy 4
- Black Ribbons
- Blackbirds
- Blessing In Disguise
- Border Town
- Careful How You Go
- Child Of Mine
- Circus Girl
- Dark Angel
- December Child
- Drowning In You
- Everything Falls Away
- Five Minutes
- Germantown
- Ghost
- Guadalupe
- Hello Cruel World
- I Aint Ever Satisfied
- I Dont Know
- I Was Looking For You
- I Wonder As I Wander
- Idlewild
- If Heaven
- If I Had A Gun
- In The Bleak Midwinter
- Independence Day
- Jubilee
- Lilies Of The Field
- Love And Texaco
- Love That Makes A Cup Of Tea
- Northern Lights
- On A Bus To St Cloud
- On A Bus To Stcloud
- Over Africa
- Paradise Found
- Picasso And Me
- Prairie In The Sky
- Pretty Things
- Revival
- Saint Francis
- Song For A Winters Night
- Souvenirs
- Sunday Morning Up And Down My Street
- The Aviators Song
- The House On Auburn Street
- The Matador
- The Way You Move Me
- This Town
- This Used To Be My Town
- To Say Goodbye
- Tomorrow Morning
- Truckstop Angel
- Waitin On Mary
- Waiting For Amelia
- Waiting For The Light
- Waiting For The Light To Turn Green
- When All You Got Is A Hammer
- When You Are Old
- When You Comin Home
- Wild Horses
- Woman On The Wheel
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GRETCHEN PETERS - TRUCKSTOP ANGEL
album version - DANCING WITH THE BEAST
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[CHORDS]
Am Fmaj7 Gsus4 G F C Dm
e|-0---0-----3----3--1--0--1--|
b|-1---1-----3----3--1--1--3--|
g|-2---2-----5----4--2--0--2--|
d|-2---3-----5----5--3--2--0--|
a|-0---3-----5----5--3--3-----|
e|-----------3----3--1--------|
[INTRO]
Am Fmaj7 Gsus4 G Am
Am Fmaj7 Gsus4 G Am
[VERSE 1]
Am Fmaj7
I meet them in the truckstops, I meet them in the bars
G F
I meet them in the parking lots and I slip into their cars
Am Fmaj7
They come and put their money down, they come and place their bets
G F
I swallow their indifference,but I choke on my regrets
[INTERLUDE]
Am Fmaj7 Gsus4 G Am
[VERSE 2]
Am Fmaj7
Sometimes they ask me questions sometimes they treat me nice
G F
You don't know what you'll get until you roll the dice
Am Fmaj7
You're a loser or a winner here, predator or prey
G F
I'm still not sure which one I am or how I got this way
[CHORUS]
F C
And it's hard to hear the angels
G Am
Over the diesels’ hum
F C
But I know they're out there singing
G Dm
And I'll know them when they come
F C
And I'll rise above the neon
G Am
Above this trailer park
G F
And fly like a truckstop angel with an arrow through my heart
[INTERLUDE]
Am Fmaj7 Gsus4 G Am
[VERSE 3]
Am Fmaj7
There's a big sky up above me there's a wasteland down below
G F
There's a long black snake of highway take you where you wanna go
Am Fmaj7
One day I'm gonna leave here, gonna hit my lucky streak
G F
Gonna spread my gorgeous wings and fly above all this concrete
[CHORUS]
F C
And it's hard to hear the angels
G Am
Over the diesels’ hum
F C
But I know they're out there singing
G Dm
And I'll know them when they come
F C
And I'll rise above the neon
G Am
Above this trailer park
G F
And fly like a truckstop angel with an arrow through my heart
[OUTRO]
Am Fmaj7 Gsus4 G Am
Am Fmaj7 Gsus4 G Am
album version - DANCING WITH THE BEAST
_____________________________
_____________________________
[CHORDS]
Am Fmaj7 Gsus4 G F C Dm
e|-0---0-----3----3--1--0--1--|
b|-1---1-----3----3--1--1--3--|
g|-2---2-----5----4--2--0--2--|
d|-2---3-----5----5--3--2--0--|
a|-0---3-----5----5--3--3-----|
e|-----------3----3--1--------|
[INTRO]
Am Fmaj7 Gsus4 G Am
Am Fmaj7 Gsus4 G Am
[VERSE 1]
Am Fmaj7
I meet them in the truckstops, I meet them in the bars
G F
I meet them in the parking lots and I slip into their cars
Am Fmaj7
They come and put their money down, they come and place their bets
G F
I swallow their indifference,but I choke on my regrets
[INTERLUDE]
Am Fmaj7 Gsus4 G Am
[VERSE 2]
Am Fmaj7
Sometimes they ask me questions sometimes they treat me nice
G F
You don't know what you'll get until you roll the dice
Am Fmaj7
You're a loser or a winner here, predator or prey
G F
I'm still not sure which one I am or how I got this way
[CHORUS]
F C
And it's hard to hear the angels
G Am
Over the diesels’ hum
F C
But I know they're out there singing
G Dm
And I'll know them when they come
F C
And I'll rise above the neon
G Am
Above this trailer park
G F
And fly like a truckstop angel with an arrow through my heart
[INTERLUDE]
Am Fmaj7 Gsus4 G Am
[VERSE 3]
Am Fmaj7
There's a big sky up above me there's a wasteland down below
G F
There's a long black snake of highway take you where you wanna go
Am Fmaj7
One day I'm gonna leave here, gonna hit my lucky streak
G F
Gonna spread my gorgeous wings and fly above all this concrete
[CHORUS]
F C
And it's hard to hear the angels
G Am
Over the diesels’ hum
F C
But I know they're out there singing
G Dm
And I'll know them when they come
F C
And I'll rise above the neon
G Am
Above this trailer park
G F
And fly like a truckstop angel with an arrow through my heart
[OUTRO]
Am Fmaj7 Gsus4 G Am
Am Fmaj7 Gsus4 G Am
Grey Eye Glances
Grey Haze
Grey Holiday
Grey Kingdom
Grey Revell