Chords for Bruce Robison - "My Brother and Me" | Concerts from Blue Rock LIVE

[E] So [D] this [G] song's for Grandpa [D] Charlie.
_ _ [G] _
[D] _ _ _ _ Grandpa Charlie smoked and drank whiskey,
but [Bm] he died in [G] 43.
[D] Nobody like him and all my kin
until [Em] my brother and me.
_ [D] He died in a small town so far [Bm] back
they didn't know what hit him,
maybe a [D] heart attack.
That was a drag on my grandma,
you know she never [Em] really [D] forgave him for that. _
[Bm] Most every year [D] on Christmas Day,
my dad and me go down where he lay.
[Bm] I don't know what [D] kind of man [A] he'd be,
but he's like my [G] brother and [D] me. _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [D] Grandma married a man she found,
[G] even foregrand daddy hit the [D] ground.
Took 45 years, but what do you know,
[A] well he turned that right around.
[D] _ _ Grandma would tell about the family,
how [G] they come on over from Germany.
[D] Oma and Opa was hard folks,
though you know how them [E] Germans [D] can be.
[G] When she died we [D] cried and sang that day
with [B] the guitars [D] tuned to the doghouse bass.
[G] Nobody sings down [D] low and sweet,
not like my brother and me. _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ [G] _ _
[D] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [D] Well my great grandpappy on my mother's side
[G] made a whole lot of money before he [D] died.
He was a wildcatter and in the clan besides,
and that was a matter of pride.
Never wondered where great grandpappy went,
he lit [G] a cigar neath the oxygen tent.
[D] A man of secrets I'll never know,
[Em] like a letter never [D] sent.
[G] But they're all living [D] like they should,
but all the money in the world didn't do them no good.
[G] Their daughter went and [D] married an old hayseed,
[A] and they had [G] my brother [D] and me. _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
Well _ _ [D] what do they say about the small town,
take [Bm] the boy out of [G] Bandera,
not the other way [D] around.
I don't know, but man it's true,
those bright lights will get you down.
_ I'm gonna stay on the old concrete,
cause [G] them city girls they smell so [C#] sweet.
[D] And I don't know what the hell they see,
but they like my brother and me.
They like my brother and me.
They still like my [G] brother a little [D] more than they do me.
_ _ But [G] they like [D] my brother and me.
_ _ _ [G] And we go down to [D] the spur some night,
and listen to the river neath the pale moonlight,
[G]
and tell our old buddies [D] what it's like to [A] be
just like my [D] brother and me.
Just like my brother and me.
[A] Don't mess with [D] my brother and me.
Just like _ my _ _ [G] _ brother [D] and _ _ _ _ [G] me. _ _
_ [D] _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
[Gm] Alright, thank you.
[D] _ _ _ Thanks a lot. _