West Virginia Man by David Allan Coe, tabs and chords at PlayUkuleleNET

West Virginia Man

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David Allan Coe (born September 6, 1939) is an American singer and songwriter. Coe took up music after spending much of his early life in reform schools and prisons, and first became notable for busking in Nashville. He initially played mostly in the blues style, before transitioning to country music, becoming a major part of the 1970s outlaw country scene. His biggest hits were "Mona Lisa Lost Her Smile", "The Ride", "You Never Even Called Me by My Name", "She Used to Love Me a Lot", and "Longhaired Redneck".

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[Intro]
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I can plow the lower forty acres, feed the chickens, slap the hogs, fix the drainpipe
Pick the guitar and never lose no time
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Mow the grass, prune the peach trees, bend that dow stake that was broken by that
friend a mine
Still find time of an evenin' to go fishin on the river, put a fence around my land
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Read a story to my baby I'm a West Virginia Man

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I work in the sawmill 8 hours a day
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Eat supper, read the paper put up a 100 bales of hay
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Run off a batch of moonshine relax next to the fan
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Chew tabacco sing a firin' song I'm a West Virginia Man
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West Virginia man, alright
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I hear you, alright

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I can milk a hundred head of cattle, chop the firewood, shoe the horses, paint the barn
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Pack the roof to make sure it won't leak, pick the beans sow some hayseed
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Check the muskrat traps down by the creek
'Fore it gets late I can pick a pack of apples that my woman wants to can
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Take my youngest son our huntin' I'm a West Virginia man

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Work in the sawmill 8 hours a day
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Eat supper, read the paper, put up a hundred bales of hay
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Run off a batch of moonshine relax next to the fan
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Chew tobacco sing a firin' song I'm a West Virginia man
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West Virginia man, alright
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Ahhh, well alright
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Ahhh, alright
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I hear ya now, alright
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Have mercy, alright