[Intro] (Finger picking + strumming. Listen to the song for timing, it's rather fast paced):
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e|---------0------------0:| e|------0---0---0---|
B|------0-------0-0h2-2--:| B|-0----------------|
G|-----1-----1-1---------:| G|1-----------------|
D|-2--2------------------:| D|----2---2---2---2-|
A|-2---------------------:| A|--2-2---2---2---2-|
E|-0-0---0---------------:|(x3)E|--0-0---0---0---0-|(Strumming starts)
[Harmonica solo]
A E B E A E E B E (Just like chorus)
[Verse 1]
B E
Deep down in the pines where the world has forgotten was still alive
B E
Where the dirt roads twist along for no more than a mile
A E
Where the old man’s bar marks the center of town, and the county was never dry
(E) B E
Where the people will go, where the people will stay, Where they live until they die
[Verse 2]
B E
Well I knew a guy, his name was Ricky McCoy, An ass kicking bass fishing good ol’ boy
B E
And he can build a fire in 10 seconds flat, And he can ride a bull even longer than that
A E
Well he was only 15 when he dropped out of school, he said ‘I never been a genius, but I ain’t no fool
(E) B E
I know what I want, and I’mma get it in life, and I ain’t never gonna leave this place’
[Chorus]
A E
He said ‘Man I ain’t never gonna leave this place, it’s where I’s (was) born, It’s where I’s raised
B E
And when I’m old on my dying bed I pray this is where I’m gonna lay my head
A E
I got me a town I can call my home, I got me a place I can call my own
(E) B E
I told you once and I’mma say it again: I ain’t never gonna leave this place’
[Verse 3]
B E
Well Jessie was a young girl who grew up fast, she used to make her money lying down on her back
B E
Her daddy drank whiskey till he’s numb in the head, he’d beat her every night until the day he was dead
A E
Well she was just an only child with nowhere to go, in the same square mile where her seeds were sewn
(E) B E
‘If there’s more to life, I guess I’ll never know cause I ain’t ever gonna leave this place’
[Chorus]
A E
She said ‘Man I ain’t never gonna leave this place, it’s where I’s born, It’s where I’s raised
B E
And when I’m old on my dying bed I pray this is where I’m gonna lay my head
A E
I got me a town I can call my home, I got me a place I can call my own
(E) B E
I told you once and I’mma say it again: I ain’t never gonna leave this place’
[Chorus]
A E
Man I ain’t never gonna leave this place, it’s where I’s born, It’s where I’s raised
B E
And when I’m old on my dying bed I pray this is where I’m gonna lay my head
A E
I got me a town I can call my home, I got me a place I can call my own
(E) B E
I told you once and I’mma say it again: I ain’t never gonna leave this place.
[END]