Slaid Cleaves

Broke Down Ukulele Chords

Capo 1

C
Sherry had a pawn shop band of gold,

A sink full of dishes and a love grown cold,
F                 G
Along came a boy, pretty as the devil,
    C        G            	Am
She took his hand, the whole thing unravelled,
F                  G
There's no turnin' round, 
           C
It's broke down.

C
Billy took the ring, jammed it in his pocket,

Drove down town and tried to hock it,
F			G
Down at the bottom of Lake Ponchartrain,
	   C	    G	             Am
There's a love not carved inside a wedding ring.

F           G
Broke down, cracked and shattered,
C        G            Am
Left in pieces like it never even mattered,
F           G
Broke down, torn and frayed,
C               G           Am
Ain't nothin' left you could give away,
F                  G
There's no turnin' round, 
           C 
It's broke down.

F               
Ain't no tellin’ where love goes,
G                    C
Maybe down where the black river flows,
F                    G
Won't be comin' back round, 
           C
It's broke down.

C
Baby in the back seat, another on the way,

Sherry thinks of Billy at the end of every day,
F		    	        G
She spends her nights waiting for real life to start,
C		  G		Am
Listening to the sound of her double crossed heart.

F	     G
Broke down, cracked and shattered, 
C	  G		Am
Left in pieces like it never even mattered,
F		    G
There's no turnin' round,
           C
It's broke down.

C
On the other side of town, two lovers lie still,

Cigarette smokin' on a window sill,
	   F		            G
There's a picture locked up in an old suitcase,
       C	  G		Am
Billy closes his eyes but he still sees her face.

F		G
Broke down, cracked and shattered,
C	 G		 Am
Left in pieces like it never even mattered,
F	      G
Broke down, torn and frayed,
      C		G		Am
Ain't nothin' left you could give away,
F	    	     G
There's no turnin' round,
      C
It's broke down.
C
Broke down.