Wish It Was True Tab par The White Buffalo

G  Cadd9    G
Mother, Try to do right by you

To do what you asked me to
       D   G
I did wrong and I knew.

Mother I tried to behave for you 
Now I?m a digging a grave for you 
It was all I could do. 

D      C
Find a way back home, Make everything new 
  G
But I wish it was true.

Father, well I?ll give my soul to you
I came in blind folded for you 
It was all that I knew.

Open your arms and I?ll fly out of hell up to you
I wish it was true.

Am C
Boy come on out from the cold
  G
Your lost outside there don?t you know
 D
It?s not what you say it was you do
  Am
Just keep wishing your wishes are true
       C
Well your dreams there reality now
    G
There?s no pain there?s no misery
      D
Just polish the blood and the bruise
C
For there?s just no way you can lose.
  G
But I wish it was true.

Country, I was a solider for you
I did what you asked me to 
It was wrong and you knew.

Country, now I?m just a stranger to you
A number a name it?s true
Throw me away when you?re through.

D  C
Home of the brave and free the, the red white and blue
  G
But I wish it was true.