[Chords]
C x32010
F 133211
G 320033
Am x02210
[Verse]
C G Am F
I always did like music and I always did like wine
C G Am F
I always liked em best when they was mine
C G Am F
I’d heard enough of Nashville to give a happy man the blues
C G Am F C G C
So I took a job for nothing as a beggar and a mule
[Pre-Chorus]
F C
And I hauled my cart and guitar
F C
And I stood outside the doors
F C
Singin’: “Listen to me, listen . . .
G G--
Won’t you listen to me, sir?
[Chorus]
C G
Well fuck that cause I’ve got too much pride
C F
Fuck that cause I got clear
C G
And fuck them that got no heart at all
F C
Or the balls to trust their ears
[Verse]
C G Am F
I sat upon the sidewalks and I saddled up my sides
C G Am F
I chewed my cud and washed it down with pride
C G Am F
Catnip and barleycorn, and made ready for the show
C G Am F C G C
Where I lost myself in stories of the hard luck and morose
[Pre-Chorus]
F C
And people pitched me pennies
F C
And they pounded on the glass
F C
Then they left to see the painted man
G G--
And I left to pack my ass
[Chorus]
C G
Well good goddamn another empty town
C F
Goddamn another shell
C G
Goddamn cause when I ride back home
F C
I’m a stranger there as well
[Verse]
C G Am F
I can’t say that they weren’t good to me, I can’t say that they weren’t kind
C G Am F
It’s more the way they weighted down my mind
C G Am F
It’s more the lack of dignity and the hustle and the hounds
C G Am F C G C
To have to take your hat off just to lay it on the ground
[Pre-Chorus]
F C
It was never for the money
F C
Or the whistles and applause
F C
And I will not tip my hat
G G--
Unless you sing me back a song
[Chorus]
C G
So God bless the sound of music
C F
God bless the golden rule
C G
That’s why all my friends are beggars
C F
And all my friends are mules
C G
That’s why all my friends are beggars
C F
And all my friends are mules
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-- Let Chord Ring
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