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Anything But Tame

Biography:

Rodney J. Crowell (born August 7, 1950) is a American country music singer/songwriter who is considered to be part of both the alternative country and the mainstream country music camps. For three years he was part of Emmylou Harris' "Hot Band"; later he gained mainstream popularity as a solo performer with a series of critcally-claimed albums released during the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Crowell was born in Houston, Texas to James Walter Crowell and Addie Cauzette Willoughby.

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Four years of hard work!

This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!

[Intro]
D G/A A7 D

[Verse]
D F D G/A
When our feet were tough as horn and our eyes were sharp as flint,
A7 F#m7 D
And our hearts beat like two war drums, and you tracked me by my scent,
D G/A
Cross a scape of shiny asphalt, that blacked our soles with tar,
D A7 D
And we ran like brave commanches, on a moonlit reservoir.

[Chorus]
G
And you said, I don't wanna be tamed down,
A7 F#m
I just wanna saddle up, ride my broomstick pony,
G
Along some salt grass open plain, you really showed your hand,
A/E Em7
Popping off tin cans with your daisy pump air rifle,
A A7 Em D
And your Annie Oakley aim, you were anything but tame.

D G/A
Ah you'd summon me with bird call, or you scratching at my screen,
D/A A7 G/A D
Your mouth gone sweet with juicy fruit, tawny legs and cut off jeans,
G/A
In my stretchy Ford Ranchero, Ah we rattled like train cars,
A7 G/A D
And we slung our share of gravel, 'neath a tarpoline of stars.

[Chorus]
D
And you said
G/A
I don't wanna be tamed down, I don't wanna give an inch,
F#m
The fenced off picture perfect in your billfolds window frame,
G
Ah you were born to romp in this God forsaken swamp,
A7 Em7 A A7
Dodging cotton mouths and quicksand on your tiptoes in the rain,
D
You were anything but tame.

[Break]
A7 G A G A7 G A G A Bm A Bm Em G

Gmaj7 D Gm
I heard Shreveport didn't last and we lit out for L.A.,
A7 F#m G D
But when lightning claws the night up, I can see you plain as day,
G/A
And when I want to feel you near me, I crawl down off my cloud,
A7 D
And pull on down a bayou and cry your name out loud.

[Chorus]
G/A
And you said, I don't wanna be tamed down,
F#m
I don't wanna tread regret, and flat out make excuses,
G
For the way I came up lame, I could have been enough,
A7 Em7
To live this off the ciff on the cutting edge of nowhere,
A F#m A7 F# Em7 D G/A
Where the sun goes down in flames, we were anything but tame,
A7 Dsus4/E D Dsus2/E D
Anything but tame.