[Intro]
E G A E B E
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Dad was a lawyer, Mom a music teacher
E B
I guess that explains things a lot.
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I learned from his cases, her trebles and basses
F# B
best education I ever got.
E A
I chased down a thief when I was 14,
E B
same year I got my first acoustic.
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Served papers in college, gainin’ street knowledge
F# B
then goin’ out and playin’ country music.
[CHORUS]
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And it was guns & guitars, courtrooms & bars
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back and forth from one life to another.
A
Guns & guitars, sometimes it’s in the stars
B B C B
blame it on my father and my mother.
[8-bar instrumental break]
E G A E B E A B E
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I was an agent for the State, a P.I. for a rate
E B
workin’ all across Oklahoma.
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But I found the Texas Music scene, hangin’ out with Pat Green,
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and I felt like I woke up from a coma.
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And I went back to OKC, wanted everyone to see
E B
there’s music that the radio is missin’.
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So much for law and order – now it’s all over,
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I’m a no-account Red Dirt musician.
REPEAT CHORUS
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And it was guns & guitars, courtrooms & bars
E E F# G G#
back and forth from one life to another.
A
Guns & guitars, sometimes it’s in the stars
B B C C# D D# E
blame it on my father and my mother.
[5-bar instrumental ending]
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