Tyler Childers - Middle ground

^GWell I gotta get out, right now, what in the world to do ^CSeems I stole a ghost the away from ^Gyou ^DShame my mother with the burden of a murdering ^Gson ^GWell I'm headed out west, blazing a trail, gonna run clean out of my shoes ^CI'll keep running 'til the bottom of my feet are ^Gbruised ^DUncle told me once about a place called the middle ^Gground

^GWell way over yonder past the Ohio River you can eat like a woodland king ^CThere's fish in the water like you ain't never ^Gseen ^DAin't no man hungry in the bounty of the middle ^Gground ^GYou can eat on elk, eat on deer, you can eat on ring-tailed coon ^CThere's all kinds of critters in the dark won't eat on ^Gyou ^DAin't no man hungry in the bounty of the middle ^Gground

^CWell the church yard brought the bull around the mountain turned the murderer on the ^Grun ^DPray my momma and the lord in heaven can forgive me for the things I've done ^CThere ain't no jury in the middle ground, in the middle ground a boy is ^Gfree ^DSo goodbye momma I'm going to the middle ^Gground

^CWell I know his friends and his next of kin will love to watch me ^Gswing ^DAnd I may be sorry that I ain't so sorry that I'm never gonna let them see ^CThere ain't no jury in the middle ground, in the middle ground a boy is ^Gfree ^DSo goodbye momma I'm going to the middle ^Gground

^GWell I gotta get out, right now, what in the world to do ^CSeems I beat the brakes right off of ^Gyou ^DSent you early to the maker of the middle ^Gground ^DSo goodbye momma I'm going to the middle g^Ground