Chords for C.F. Martin & Co. Presents: Charlie Worsham

I'll play one that did come from just sitting in a hotel room actually in Key West
[F] and where
The songwriting gods were with us, you know
and it kind of felt it didn't fall out but parts of it fell out and then
We spent a lot of time kind of tweaking on it and letting it happen.
Naturally.
It's sort of a birthing process sometimes
I guess and the inspiration for this is that
I'm 27 and I grew up
Playing music.
It's all I've ever done
I moved away from my hometown of Grenada, Mississippi to go to college in Boston and then move straight to Nashville and
over the last few years
I've seen a lot of my friends from high school get married start to have their families and
the path that I'm on has delayed that part of my life a little bit and
between the experiences of playing a friend's wedding reception a friend from high school and and
Talking to my folks catching up on hometown gossip and stuff and seeing in the paper friends that got married this idea was born
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_ [F] These Delta roads everyone I know by the cotton field and railroad [C] tracks _ _
_ [F] It's more than just the heat most folks who get the chance [F] to leave don't come back
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_ [F] Last time I thought about you in a wedding dress I would have been holding your [C] hand _ _
_ [F] But at 17 you promised things that you don't really understand
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Mississippi in [Bb] July
Magnolia moonlight the warm wind [Dm] was just right staying up [C] all night
Letting love [Bb] fly _ _ _
Mississippi in July
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_ [Dm] My heart might as well be one of those cans tied to [F] the back of your limousine _ _ _
_ [Dm] It was hanging by a thread so I went up [F] here and cut the string _ _ _
[C] If I could ask you way back when if you take my hand would you say I [F] do _ _ _
Yeah, I'm [Dm] supposed to hope you're happy letting go don't feel the way [C] it's supposed to _
Mississippi in [Bb] July
Magnolia moonlight the warm wind was [Dm] just right
staying up [C] all night
and letting love [Bb] fly
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Mississippi in [C] July _ _
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_ _ [F] Magnolia moonlight the warm wind [Dm] was just right
[C] staying up all night
Some memories never die
[F] Honey, so I could kiss it if I could live [Dm] on wishes.
I'd stay here [C] all the time _
_ Oh
Mississippi in [Bb] July _
[C] _ _ Mississippi in [Cm] July
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_ _ If these Delta rolls everyone I know by the cotton fields
Yeah _
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