Biography:
Joe Diffie (December 28, 1958 – March 29, 2020) was an American country musician. Between 1990 and 2004, he had 35 singles that charted on the US Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, five of which peaked at number one. He also co-wrote singles for Holly Dunn, Tim McGraw, and Jo Dee Messina, and recorded with Mary Chapin Carpenter, George Jones, and Marty Stuart.
Raised in Velma, Oklahoma, Diffie worked in a foundry while playing local nightclubs in Oklahoma and moved to Nashville in 1986 to work for Gibson Guitar Corporation.
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- A Night To Rember
- A Night To Remember
- Aint That Bad Enough
- Better Off Gone
- Bigger Than The Beatles
- Coolest Fool In Town
- Devil Danced Empty Pockets
- Devil Danced In Empty Pockets
- Down In A Ditch
- Girl Riding Shotgun
- Good Brown Gravy
- Goodnight Sweetheart
- Home
- Honky Tonk Attitude
- Hurt Me All The Time
- I Aint Leavin Til Shes Gone
- I Can Walk The Line If It Aint Too Straight
- Id Like To Have A Problem Like That
- If You Want Me To
- Its Always Something
- John Deere Green
- Juniors In Love
- Leroy The Redneck Reindeer
- My Give A Damns Busted
- My Hearts In Over My Head
- New Way To Light Up An Old Flame
- Pickup Man
- Praise And Alleluia To The Savior
- Prop Me Up Beside The Juke Box When I Die
- Ships That Dont Come In
- Show Me A Woman
- So Help Me Girl
- Tears In The Rain
- That Road Not Taken
- The Cows Came Home
- The Grandpa That I Know
- The More You Drink The Better I Look
- There Goes The Neighborhood
- Third Rock From The Sun
- Tougher Than Nails
- What About Denver
- Wrap Me In Your Love
- You Cant Go Home
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DOWN IN A DITCH
Joe Diffie
Dennis Linde
1995, Sony Records
August 17, 2003
[Intro]
F C F C F
[Verse]
F C
I'm runnin' this shovel way down in a ditch
F
When you're down in a ditch it's a sun of a gun
C
Any fool knows you'll never get rich
When you're down in a ditch
F
In the Tennessee sun
C
All I got to show is blisters and sweat
F
Blisters and sweat and minimum pay
C
I'm just tryin' to get out of debt
F
And buddy I bet you I make it someday
Bb
Well I wish I was the man with the clipboard
F
Sittin' in the shade with an RC cola
Bb
Makin calls on the cellular phone
G C
And yellin' down at me to keep my butt movin'
F C
I'm runnin' this shovel way down in a ditch
F
When you're down in a ditch it's a sun of a gun
C
Any fool knows you'll never get rich
When you're down in a ditch
F
In the Tennessee sun
F C F C F
Bb
Some day you'll see me workin' that clipboard
F
Sittin' in the cab of a cool Silverado
Bb
Tuned in to a country station
G C
Rollin' down the window just to holler out orders
F C
I'm runnin' this shovel way down in a ditch
F
When you're down in a ditch it's a sun of a gun
C
Any fool knows you'll never get rich
Workin' down in a ditch
F
In the Tennessee sun
[Key Change]
G D
I'm runnin' this shovel way down in a ditch
G
When you're down in a ditch it's a sun of a gun
D
Any fool knows you'll never get rich
When you're down in a ditch
G C
In the Tennessee sun
When you're down in a ditch
D G
In the Tennessee sun
Joe Diffie
Dennis Linde
1995, Sony Records
August 17, 2003
[Intro]
F C F C F
[Verse]
F C
I'm runnin' this shovel way down in a ditch
F
When you're down in a ditch it's a sun of a gun
C
Any fool knows you'll never get rich
When you're down in a ditch
F
In the Tennessee sun
C
All I got to show is blisters and sweat
F
Blisters and sweat and minimum pay
C
I'm just tryin' to get out of debt
F
And buddy I bet you I make it someday
Bb
Well I wish I was the man with the clipboard
F
Sittin' in the shade with an RC cola
Bb
Makin calls on the cellular phone
G C
And yellin' down at me to keep my butt movin'
F C
I'm runnin' this shovel way down in a ditch
F
When you're down in a ditch it's a sun of a gun
C
Any fool knows you'll never get rich
When you're down in a ditch
F
In the Tennessee sun
F C F C F
Bb
Some day you'll see me workin' that clipboard
F
Sittin' in the cab of a cool Silverado
Bb
Tuned in to a country station
G C
Rollin' down the window just to holler out orders
F C
I'm runnin' this shovel way down in a ditch
F
When you're down in a ditch it's a sun of a gun
C
Any fool knows you'll never get rich
Workin' down in a ditch
F
In the Tennessee sun
[Key Change]
G D
I'm runnin' this shovel way down in a ditch
G
When you're down in a ditch it's a sun of a gun
D
Any fool knows you'll never get rich
When you're down in a ditch
G C
In the Tennessee sun
When you're down in a ditch
D G
In the Tennessee sun
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