Chords for Cledus Maggard - The White Knight
Tempo:
121.05 bpm
Chords used:
E
A
B
F#
C#m
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[E] [A#m] [E] Now 75 or 85 or high 20 tell her away.
[A] Turn your spouts to the right and in the [E] night you'll hear some good buddy say,
[B] Waker, [A] waker, got a 50 [E] tanker, old Smokey's at 43.
It's that Japanese toy, the trucker's joy, that everybody calls CB.
[A] Yeah, Citizens Bank.
[E] Keeps you up to date with the vendor vendors and [B] the Tijuana [A] taxes and all them [E] buyers out there.
Flip flop.
Now ahead of your children and ahead of your wife on the list of the 10 best things in [A] life,
your CB's gotta rate right around [E] number 4.
Of course, [B] Babers, Hot [A] Biscuits, Merle [E] Haggard come one, two, three, you know.
Well I's loaded down coming out of Lake City, I's checking out seat covers young and pretty
[A] when all of a sudden there come a [E] call over my CB ringing wall to wall.
[B] Said, Florida double [A] nickels hit the ridge, [E] got a Smokey's back, take him down the side of the bridge.
Oh, mercy.
Appreciate that good buddy.
What's your handle like?
[A] Come on.
Got any [Em] county mounties [E] out there prowling?
Come [B] on.
[C#] And [D#] he [E] said, 10-4 back door.
Put [A] the pedal to the metal and [E] let it roar.
Hammer down to Macon town, [F#] gonna see my mama, [B]
sure.
[C#m] [G#m] [E] Well the birds are gone, let's bring it on.
[A] Georgia line's out [E] of sight.
Pulled out of Richmond town last [C#] Saturday night and [F#] my handle [B] is the [E] White Knight.
How about it?
All right, White Knight, hammer down, you got the mean machine here.
[A] Well there I was streaking, my needle was a-peaking, [E] right around 79.
That [B] old Deasy juice [A] was a-getting loose [E] and everything was fine.
When wall to wall I got a call from a front door big bird trapper.
[A] Said, break one nine, good buddy of [E] mine, you got a Smokey and a plain white wrapper.
When I jammed my stick I lost 20 quick, you could hear them gears a-tapping.
[A] I got passed by a beaver and a Camaro [E] when I was cruising along and going so [B] slow,
I could count every [A] button on that frilly [E] plow she was a-wiring.
Of course, they weren't the one.
Hey there, Super Trooper.
Yeah, that's that crafty [A] Smokey over there, I can see via his own.
Hey, White [E] Knight, let's slide one off a Super Trooper.
Come on.
10-4 back [A] door.
Put the pedal to the [E] metal, what you waiting for?
If that old white can't stay in [F#] sight, I'm gonna leave you here and [B] say no more.
How [E] about it?
Whoa now, old buddy, that's fighting talk.
Now get up there and blow your doors [A] off.
Fly hammered down like I had [E] wing, little gravels in my wheels going ping, ping, [B] ping.
About the [A] time I hit 92, [E] I saw something flashing in my rear view.
I thought to myself, that can't be true, but Barry was a-going blue, blue, [A] blue.
Uh-oh, [E] bubblegum machine done hit the jackpot.
[B] Well, I could see that [A] bird a-lifin' [E] big, hanging in tight on the back of my rig.
And right there and then it come to me, wall to wall.
[A] So in that cold, dark Georgia [E] night, in the shadow of Smokey Byers' blue light,
I [B] decided to [A] make me just one [E] more CB call.
Break one-nine for the Super Trooper.
Hey there, Smokey old buddy, tell me if I'm [A] right or you my front door, you the [E] White Knight, come on.
[B] [C#] And [D#m] he [E] said,
10-4, back door.
[A] You and I, he the trouble [E] boy for sure.
Gonna read you your rights, treat you fair, [F#] just pull over there [B] with your [C#m] rocking [B] chair.
[E] Want you boys to know each other real well, [A] cause you gonna be [E] sharing the same Jacob's sale.
You make 12 cotton pickers, [C#] I'll call tonight, [F#] running [B] front door as [E] that White [C#m] Knight.
[B]
How about it?
[E]
40 miles over speed limit, you [C#m] boys gonna be here still.
[F#]
[B] [F#] [B]
[E] That's it, cotton pickers, I've done been grounded, and the tail in jail, and [C#m] my rig impounded.
[A] So when you coming through the Georgia night, don't [E] never get no front door called [B] up.
White [A] Knight, house, [E] wind up in the pokey with [Cm] Smokey.
[E] I'm gonna pull that old CB thing out by the wire.
[N]
[A] Turn your spouts to the right and in the [E] night you'll hear some good buddy say,
[B] Waker, [A] waker, got a 50 [E] tanker, old Smokey's at 43.
It's that Japanese toy, the trucker's joy, that everybody calls CB.
[A] Yeah, Citizens Bank.
[E] Keeps you up to date with the vendor vendors and [B] the Tijuana [A] taxes and all them [E] buyers out there.
Flip flop.
Now ahead of your children and ahead of your wife on the list of the 10 best things in [A] life,
your CB's gotta rate right around [E] number 4.
Of course, [B] Babers, Hot [A] Biscuits, Merle [E] Haggard come one, two, three, you know.
Well I's loaded down coming out of Lake City, I's checking out seat covers young and pretty
[A] when all of a sudden there come a [E] call over my CB ringing wall to wall.
[B] Said, Florida double [A] nickels hit the ridge, [E] got a Smokey's back, take him down the side of the bridge.
Oh, mercy.
Appreciate that good buddy.
What's your handle like?
[A] Come on.
Got any [Em] county mounties [E] out there prowling?
Come [B] on.
[C#] And [D#] he [E] said, 10-4 back door.
Put [A] the pedal to the metal and [E] let it roar.
Hammer down to Macon town, [F#] gonna see my mama, [B]
sure.
[C#m] [G#m] [E] Well the birds are gone, let's bring it on.
[A] Georgia line's out [E] of sight.
Pulled out of Richmond town last [C#] Saturday night and [F#] my handle [B] is the [E] White Knight.
How about it?
All right, White Knight, hammer down, you got the mean machine here.
[A] Well there I was streaking, my needle was a-peaking, [E] right around 79.
That [B] old Deasy juice [A] was a-getting loose [E] and everything was fine.
When wall to wall I got a call from a front door big bird trapper.
[A] Said, break one nine, good buddy of [E] mine, you got a Smokey and a plain white wrapper.
When I jammed my stick I lost 20 quick, you could hear them gears a-tapping.
[A] I got passed by a beaver and a Camaro [E] when I was cruising along and going so [B] slow,
I could count every [A] button on that frilly [E] plow she was a-wiring.
Of course, they weren't the one.
Hey there, Super Trooper.
Yeah, that's that crafty [A] Smokey over there, I can see via his own.
Hey, White [E] Knight, let's slide one off a Super Trooper.
Come on.
10-4 back [A] door.
Put the pedal to the [E] metal, what you waiting for?
If that old white can't stay in [F#] sight, I'm gonna leave you here and [B] say no more.
How [E] about it?
Whoa now, old buddy, that's fighting talk.
Now get up there and blow your doors [A] off.
Fly hammered down like I had [E] wing, little gravels in my wheels going ping, ping, [B] ping.
About the [A] time I hit 92, [E] I saw something flashing in my rear view.
I thought to myself, that can't be true, but Barry was a-going blue, blue, [A] blue.
Uh-oh, [E] bubblegum machine done hit the jackpot.
[B] Well, I could see that [A] bird a-lifin' [E] big, hanging in tight on the back of my rig.
And right there and then it come to me, wall to wall.
[A] So in that cold, dark Georgia [E] night, in the shadow of Smokey Byers' blue light,
I [B] decided to [A] make me just one [E] more CB call.
Break one-nine for the Super Trooper.
Hey there, Smokey old buddy, tell me if I'm [A] right or you my front door, you the [E] White Knight, come on.
[B] [C#] And [D#m] he [E] said,
10-4, back door.
[A] You and I, he the trouble [E] boy for sure.
Gonna read you your rights, treat you fair, [F#] just pull over there [B] with your [C#m] rocking [B] chair.
[E] Want you boys to know each other real well, [A] cause you gonna be [E] sharing the same Jacob's sale.
You make 12 cotton pickers, [C#] I'll call tonight, [F#] running [B] front door as [E] that White [C#m] Knight.
[B]
How about it?
[E]
40 miles over speed limit, you [C#m] boys gonna be here still.
[F#]
[B] [F#] [B]
[E] That's it, cotton pickers, I've done been grounded, and the tail in jail, and [C#m] my rig impounded.
[A] So when you coming through the Georgia night, don't [E] never get no front door called [B] up.
White [A] Knight, house, [E] wind up in the pokey with [Cm] Smokey.
[E] I'm gonna pull that old CB thing out by the wire.
[N]
Key:
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B
_ _ [E] _ _ _ [A#m] [E] Now 75 or 85 or high 20 tell her away.
[A] Turn your spouts to the right and in the [E] night you'll hear some good buddy say,
[B] Waker, [A] waker, got a 50 [E] tanker, old Smokey's at 43.
It's that Japanese toy, the trucker's joy, that everybody calls CB.
[A] Yeah, Citizens Bank.
[E] Keeps you up to date with the vendor vendors and [B] the Tijuana [A] taxes and all them [E] buyers out there.
Flip flop.
Now ahead of your children and ahead of your wife on the list of the 10 best things in [A] life,
your CB's gotta rate right around [E] number 4.
Of course, [B] Babers, Hot [A] Biscuits, Merle [E] Haggard come one, two, three, you know.
Well I's loaded down coming out of Lake City, I's checking out seat covers young and pretty
[A] when all of a sudden there come a [E] call over my CB ringing wall to wall.
[B] Said, Florida double [A] nickels hit the ridge, [E] got a Smokey's back, take him down the side of the bridge.
Oh, mercy.
Appreciate that good buddy.
What's your handle like?
[A] Come on.
Got any [Em] county mounties [E] out there prowling?
Come [B] on.
[C#] And [D#] he [E] said, _ 10-4 back door. _
Put [A] the pedal to the metal and [E] let it roar.
_ Hammer down to Macon town, [F#] gonna see my mama, [B]
sure.
[C#m] _ _ [G#m] [E] Well the birds are gone, let's bring it on.
[A] _ Georgia line's out [E] of sight.
_ _ _ Pulled out of Richmond town last [C#] Saturday night and [F#] my handle [B] is the [E] White Knight.
How about it?
All right, White Knight, hammer down, you got the mean machine here.
[A] Well there I was streaking, my needle was a-peaking, [E] right around 79.
That [B] old Deasy juice [A] was a-getting loose [E] and everything was fine.
When wall to wall I got a call from a front door big bird trapper.
[A] Said, break one nine, good buddy of [E] mine, you got a Smokey and a plain white wrapper.
When I jammed my stick I lost 20 quick, you could hear them gears a-tapping.
[A] I got passed by a beaver and a Camaro [E] when I was cruising along and going so [B] slow,
I could count every [A] button on that frilly [E] plow she was a-wiring.
Of course, they weren't the one.
Hey there, Super Trooper.
Yeah, that's that crafty [A] Smokey over there, I can see via his own.
Hey, White [E] Knight, let's slide one off a Super Trooper.
Come on.
10-4 back [A] door.
Put the pedal to the [E] metal, what you waiting for?
If that old white can't stay in [F#] sight, I'm gonna leave you here and [B] say no more.
How [E] about it?
Whoa now, old buddy, that's fighting talk.
Now get up there and blow your doors [A] off.
Fly hammered down like I had [E] wing, little gravels in my wheels going ping, ping, [B] ping.
About the [A] time I hit 92, [E] I saw something flashing in my rear view.
I thought to myself, that can't be true, but Barry was a-going blue, blue, [A] blue.
Uh-oh, [E] bubblegum machine done hit the jackpot.
[B] Well, I could see that [A] bird a-lifin' [E] big, hanging in tight on the back of my rig.
And right there and then it come to me, wall to wall.
_ [A] So in that cold, dark Georgia [E] night, in the shadow of Smokey Byers' blue light,
I [B] decided to [A] make me just one [E] more CB call.
Break one-nine for the Super Trooper.
Hey there, Smokey old buddy, tell me if I'm [A] right or you my front door, you the [E] White Knight, come on.
[B] [C#] And [D#m] he [E] said,
_ 10-4, back door.
[A] You and I, he the trouble [E] boy for sure.
_ Gonna read you your rights, treat you fair, [F#] just pull over there [B] with your [C#m] rocking [B] chair.
[E] Want you boys to know each other real well, [A] cause you gonna be [E] sharing the same Jacob's sale.
You make 12 cotton pickers, [C#] I'll call tonight, [F#] running [B] front door as [E] that White [C#m] Knight.
[B] _ _ _
_ _ _ How about it?
[E] _ _
_ _ _ 40 miles over speed limit, you [C#m] boys gonna be here still.
[F#] _
_ _ _ _ [B] _ _ [F#] _ [B]
[E] That's it, cotton pickers, I've done been grounded, and the tail in jail, and [C#m] my rig impounded.
[A] So when you coming through the Georgia night, don't [E] never get no front door called [B] up.
White [A] Knight, house, [E] wind up in the pokey with [Cm] Smokey.
[E] I'm gonna pull that old CB thing out by the wire.
_ _ _ _ [N] _
[A] Turn your spouts to the right and in the [E] night you'll hear some good buddy say,
[B] Waker, [A] waker, got a 50 [E] tanker, old Smokey's at 43.
It's that Japanese toy, the trucker's joy, that everybody calls CB.
[A] Yeah, Citizens Bank.
[E] Keeps you up to date with the vendor vendors and [B] the Tijuana [A] taxes and all them [E] buyers out there.
Flip flop.
Now ahead of your children and ahead of your wife on the list of the 10 best things in [A] life,
your CB's gotta rate right around [E] number 4.
Of course, [B] Babers, Hot [A] Biscuits, Merle [E] Haggard come one, two, three, you know.
Well I's loaded down coming out of Lake City, I's checking out seat covers young and pretty
[A] when all of a sudden there come a [E] call over my CB ringing wall to wall.
[B] Said, Florida double [A] nickels hit the ridge, [E] got a Smokey's back, take him down the side of the bridge.
Oh, mercy.
Appreciate that good buddy.
What's your handle like?
[A] Come on.
Got any [Em] county mounties [E] out there prowling?
Come [B] on.
[C#] And [D#] he [E] said, _ 10-4 back door. _
Put [A] the pedal to the metal and [E] let it roar.
_ Hammer down to Macon town, [F#] gonna see my mama, [B]
sure.
[C#m] _ _ [G#m] [E] Well the birds are gone, let's bring it on.
[A] _ Georgia line's out [E] of sight.
_ _ _ Pulled out of Richmond town last [C#] Saturday night and [F#] my handle [B] is the [E] White Knight.
How about it?
All right, White Knight, hammer down, you got the mean machine here.
[A] Well there I was streaking, my needle was a-peaking, [E] right around 79.
That [B] old Deasy juice [A] was a-getting loose [E] and everything was fine.
When wall to wall I got a call from a front door big bird trapper.
[A] Said, break one nine, good buddy of [E] mine, you got a Smokey and a plain white wrapper.
When I jammed my stick I lost 20 quick, you could hear them gears a-tapping.
[A] I got passed by a beaver and a Camaro [E] when I was cruising along and going so [B] slow,
I could count every [A] button on that frilly [E] plow she was a-wiring.
Of course, they weren't the one.
Hey there, Super Trooper.
Yeah, that's that crafty [A] Smokey over there, I can see via his own.
Hey, White [E] Knight, let's slide one off a Super Trooper.
Come on.
10-4 back [A] door.
Put the pedal to the [E] metal, what you waiting for?
If that old white can't stay in [F#] sight, I'm gonna leave you here and [B] say no more.
How [E] about it?
Whoa now, old buddy, that's fighting talk.
Now get up there and blow your doors [A] off.
Fly hammered down like I had [E] wing, little gravels in my wheels going ping, ping, [B] ping.
About the [A] time I hit 92, [E] I saw something flashing in my rear view.
I thought to myself, that can't be true, but Barry was a-going blue, blue, [A] blue.
Uh-oh, [E] bubblegum machine done hit the jackpot.
[B] Well, I could see that [A] bird a-lifin' [E] big, hanging in tight on the back of my rig.
And right there and then it come to me, wall to wall.
_ [A] So in that cold, dark Georgia [E] night, in the shadow of Smokey Byers' blue light,
I [B] decided to [A] make me just one [E] more CB call.
Break one-nine for the Super Trooper.
Hey there, Smokey old buddy, tell me if I'm [A] right or you my front door, you the [E] White Knight, come on.
[B] [C#] And [D#m] he [E] said,
_ 10-4, back door.
[A] You and I, he the trouble [E] boy for sure.
_ Gonna read you your rights, treat you fair, [F#] just pull over there [B] with your [C#m] rocking [B] chair.
[E] Want you boys to know each other real well, [A] cause you gonna be [E] sharing the same Jacob's sale.
You make 12 cotton pickers, [C#] I'll call tonight, [F#] running [B] front door as [E] that White [C#m] Knight.
[B] _ _ _
_ _ _ How about it?
[E] _ _
_ _ _ 40 miles over speed limit, you [C#m] boys gonna be here still.
[F#] _
_ _ _ _ [B] _ _ [F#] _ [B]
[E] That's it, cotton pickers, I've done been grounded, and the tail in jail, and [C#m] my rig impounded.
[A] So when you coming through the Georgia night, don't [E] never get no front door called [B] up.
White [A] Knight, house, [E] wind up in the pokey with [Cm] Smokey.
[E] I'm gonna pull that old CB thing out by the wire.
_ _ _ _ [N] _