Chords for Brent Cobb - Traveling Poor Boy

_ [E] Yes, anybody have any requests from the record Lena
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I wrote this song I started this song [G#m] right about the time that I didn't [B] know what I was gonna do
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_ _ _ [G#] But I kind of didn't know where the rest of the future was heading there for see and
_ _ So I wrote my damn this town I'm leaving so
[B] And [E] it's called traveling for it took me a by a [N] year to write the second verse to this song
The _ _ _ second one the second verse I guess I had not lived enough
_ But the second verse came out a year later at 2 o'clock in the morning. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ All right, here we go _
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Old man _ _ _ _
Shouting in my ear
_ [A] I'm leaving that [B] Tennessee [E] town _ _ [A] is all I have [F#] to go
[E] Oh, am I [C#m] dog ran off to [F#] he's gone?
Has [B] been a while [A] now.
[N] Hey, do you want record version?
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This is [E] the that's the recorded version right this is the [Gm] version that this way I [E] originally wrote
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_ _ _ _ _ [C#] The song [E] right over old man _ _ _ _
Shouting in my rear [B] view
[A] _ Leaving [B] that Tennessee [E] town
_ _ [A] We're all I have [B] to talk to don't [E] know where my dog [C#m] ran off [F#] to but he's gone
Has been for [G#m] a while now
[A] _ _ [B] Where I'm bound
[E] _ _ Well, I haven't figured [B] it out
[A] My [B] usual
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_ Cause [A] to leave ain't cheap.
[E] I don't need [C#m] no eat or sleep
[F#] Even if I did lost my [B] job, so I don't [A] got much pain
[D#m] _ [D#] It's okay [A] anymore
[B] Burn a hole [E] in my pocket
Lord, I can't afford to be a poor boy
Sad this [A] pair of jeans [B] is already [E] Freddy [C#m] Last _ [F#] thing
_ _ [B] _ _ [E] Gonna ride
[B] _ [E] Which right then I'm [A] gonna walk until [B] boots
[E] Walked off.
Yes, sir.
I'll be [A] a sight when I [B] get where [E] they're looking mean [A] and black
But [F#] tonight I'm feeling free and friendly [B] barely scraping change weapon.
[E] Goodbye
[B] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ say old man, I
[E] _ _ Hear that you get blue too.
It must [A] be long some [B] way up in [E] the sky _
[A] Stars seem [B] maddy proud.
Why [E] were you out?
Hey the cloud [F#] all they ever do is hang [B] around and cry
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Yes
[E] It ain't a shame _ _
Be rolling like a slow [B] train
[A] _ Going [E] like only you do I'll tell you what [A] now
Keep that [B] old friend.
She [E] keeps shining bright [C#m] like that.
[F#] I bet before we know it [B] this journey will be
[A] _ [D#m] The hard times to me [A] anymore would [B] turn a hole [E] in my pocket
Lord, I [A] can't afford to [B] be a poor boy, [E] bro
Sad this [A] pair of jeans is [E] already ready
seen
[C#m] _ [F#] The last thing that I need [B] is a pants leg smoke
Throw [A] a rag and [B] feel my back [E] which rattle then I'm gonna walk until my boots
Walked off.
Yes, sir.
I'll be [A] a sight when I [B] get where [E] they're looking mean [C#m] and black
But [F#] tonight I'm free and friendly
[B] barely scraping change waving [E] goodbye
[B] _ _ [E] _ _
Waving goodbye _ _ _ _
Waving goodbye _ _ _ _ _
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[C#m] _ _ _ _ [E] _ I _