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Date: 1/7/00; 1:24:12 AM
From: KctusCroke@aol.com
Subject: Gary Allan

From:  KctusCroke@Aol.Com (B. Connor)
Date:  01/07/00
Artist:  Gary Allan
Album/Song Title:  "Smoke Rings In The Dark"
Written By:  Robert Rutherford

SMOKE RINGS IN THE DARK..

D
I won't make you tell me
          B#m
what I've come to understand
          Em            G
you're a certain kind a woman
       D                  A
I'm a different kind of man,
D
I tried to make you love me
    B#m
you tried to find the spark
       Em                      G
of the flame that burned but somehow
           D                   B#m
turned to smoke rings in the dark.
D
The loneliness within me
B#m
takes a heavy toll
          Em               G
'cause it burns as slow as whiskey
            D             A
through an empty aching soul,
         D
and the night is like a dagger
B#m
long and cold and sharp
         Em                 G
as I sit here on the front steps
        D                   B#m
blowing smoke rings in the dark.

          B#m/G   D                A
{Chorus}     I      know I must be going
B#m/G                    D/A
'cause    loves already    gone,
    Em                  G
and all I'm taking with me
         D            G
are the pieces of my heart
     C
and all I'll leave are 
G                   D
smoke rings in the dark.
D
The rain falls where it wants to
B#m
the wind blow where it will
Em                        G
everything on earth goes somewhere
      D                      A
but I swear we're standing still,
D
so I'm not gonna wake you
B#m
I'll go easy on your heart
         Em                         G
I'll just touch your face and drift away
     D                  B#m
like smoke rings in the dark,
chorus..