Biography:
Joe Diffie (December 28, 1958 – March 29, 2020) was an American country musician. Between 1990 and 2004, he had 35 singles that charted on the US Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, five of which peaked at number one. He also co-wrote singles for Holly Dunn, Tim McGraw, and Jo Dee Messina, and recorded with Mary Chapin Carpenter, George Jones, and Marty Stuart.
Raised in Velma, Oklahoma, Diffie worked in a foundry while playing local nightclubs in Oklahoma and moved to Nashville in 1986 to work for Gibson Guitar Corporation.
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Other songs:
- A Night To Rember
- A Night To Remember
- Aint That Bad Enough
- Better Off Gone
- Bigger Than The Beatles
- Coolest Fool In Town
- Devil Danced Empty Pockets
- Devil Danced In Empty Pockets
- Down In A Ditch
- Girl Riding Shotgun
- Good Brown Gravy
- Goodnight Sweetheart
- Home
- Honky Tonk Attitude
- Hurt Me All The Time
- I Aint Leavin Til Shes Gone
- I Can Walk The Line If It Aint Too Straight
- Id Like To Have A Problem Like That
- If You Want Me To
- Its Always Something
- John Deere Green
- Juniors In Love
- Leroy The Redneck Reindeer
- My Give A Damns Busted
- My Hearts In Over My Head
- New Way To Light Up An Old Flame
- Pickup Man
- Praise And Alleluia To The Savior
- Prop Me Up Beside The Juke Box When I Die
- Ships That Dont Come In
- Show Me A Woman
- So Help Me Girl
- Tears In The Rain
- That Road Not Taken
- The Cows Came Home
- The Grandpa That I Know
- The More You Drink The Better I Look
- There Goes The Neighborhood
- Third Rock From The Sun
- Tougher Than Nails
- What About Denver
- Wrap Me In Your Love
- You Cant Go Home
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Ships That Don’t Come In
Joe Diffie
Capo 1
Intro:
G C/G Cm G
G C/G Cm G
Verse 1:
G
I could tell he'd had a tough life
C/G
By the way he sat and stared
C
And me, I'd come to push and shove
G
So I pulled up a chair
G
We talked of roads untraveled
C/G
We talked of love untrue
C
Of strings that come unraveled
G
We were kings and kindred fools
Am
And just when I'd hit bottom
D
That old man raised his glass
Am
And said at least we had our chances
D
There's those who never have
Chorus:
C D
So here's to all the soldiers
G D/F# Em
Who have ever died in vain
Am D
The insane locked up in themselves
G G - Am - G/B - C
The homeless down on Main
C D
To those who stand on empty shores
Bm C C - G/B - Am
And spit against the wind
Am G/B C
And those who wait forever
G
For ships that don't come in
Instrumental:
G C/G Cm G
Verse 2:
G
He said it's only life's illusions
C/G
That bring us to this bar
C
To pick up these old crutches
G
And compare each other's scars
G
'Cuz the things we're calling heartaches
C/G
Hell, they're hardly worth our time
C
We bitch about a dollar
G
When there's those without a dime.
Am
And as he ordered one last round, he said
D C - G/B - Am
I guess we can't complain
Am
God made life a gamble
D
And we're still in the game.
[Repeat Chorus]
Tag:
Am G/B C
And those who wait forever
G
For ships that don’t come in
[Repeat Intro]
Joe Diffie
Capo 1
Intro:
G C/G Cm G
G C/G Cm G
Verse 1:
G
I could tell he'd had a tough life
C/G
By the way he sat and stared
C
And me, I'd come to push and shove
G
So I pulled up a chair
G
We talked of roads untraveled
C/G
We talked of love untrue
C
Of strings that come unraveled
G
We were kings and kindred fools
Am
And just when I'd hit bottom
D
That old man raised his glass
Am
And said at least we had our chances
D
There's those who never have
Chorus:
C D
So here's to all the soldiers
G D/F# Em
Who have ever died in vain
Am D
The insane locked up in themselves
G G - Am - G/B - C
The homeless down on Main
C D
To those who stand on empty shores
Bm C C - G/B - Am
And spit against the wind
Am G/B C
And those who wait forever
G
For ships that don't come in
Instrumental:
G C/G Cm G
Verse 2:
G
He said it's only life's illusions
C/G
That bring us to this bar
C
To pick up these old crutches
G
And compare each other's scars
G
'Cuz the things we're calling heartaches
C/G
Hell, they're hardly worth our time
C
We bitch about a dollar
G
When there's those without a dime.
Am
And as he ordered one last round, he said
D C - G/B - Am
I guess we can't complain
Am
God made life a gamble
D
And we're still in the game.
[Repeat Chorus]
Tag:
Am G/B C
And those who wait forever
G
For ships that don’t come in
[Repeat Intro]
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