C                 F
One old brown shoe falls in slow motion
     Am               F               G
And bedsprings hover right above your head
              C               F
As bedsprings do when you're beneath them
Am                 F                G
Someone else just climbed into your bed

[Chorus]
       F                                       C      C7
By the time she thought you'd probably got to Phoenix
F                                   G      G7
She'd arranged for your shoes to be filled
Am                       Em           Dm          F
  Well, you've got your pride, and a blue steel .45
            Dm              F             C    C7
And you're waitin' for the other shoe to fall
             Dm               F             C
Yeah, you're waitin' for the other shoe to fall

[Verse 2]
N.C.              C                F
You dig a double grave out in the meadow
        Am                  F                  G
And you curse the rain that turns the dirt to mud
          C                 F
You take 35 south towards Laredo
            Am            F
And you'll try to find a doctor
        Am            F
Who can prescribe an elixir
        Am              F
That'll make everything better
            Am                F
Except your late wife and her lover

[Chorus]
       F                                       C      C7
By the time she thought you'd probably got to Phoenix
       F                                 G      G7
She'd sealed her fate and gotten herself killed
Am                       Em           Dm          F
  Well, you've got your pride, and a blue steel .45
            Dm              F             C    C7
And you're waitin' for the other shoe to fall
              Dm              F             C    C7
Yeah, you're waitin' for the other shoe to fall
              Dm              F             C    C7
Yeah, you're waitin' for the other shoe to fall