Chords for David Allan Coe - The Ride and Long Haired Redneck (Live at Farm Aid 1994)

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[Eb] I was coming from Montgomery.
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I had my guitar on my back. _ _
[F] _ _ When this [Em] stranger stopped beside me in an antique [C] Cadillac. _ _
He was dressed like _ _ 1915, [Eb] half dark and hollow white. _
[F] He said, it's a long walk from Nashville, would you [C] like a ride? _ _ _ _
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_ Well I sat down in the front seat [Em] [Eb] and turned on the radio. _ _
[F] Them sad old songs coming out of them [B] speakers [C] were solid country gold. _
And I noticed the stranger was ghost right [Eb] there when I asked him for a light. _
_ [F] I knew there was something _ strange [D] about [C] this ride. _ _ _ _
He [Eb] said, Victor, can you [F] make folks cry when you're playing [C] same?
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Have you paid your dues?
Can you mow the [G] blues?
Can you bend them guitar strings? _
_ [Eb] Boy, can you [F] make folks feel what you [Am] feel inside?
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[Bb] Here's a big star [F] bound, let me warn you, it's a long [C] hard ride. _ _ _ _
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Then he cried just south of Nashville. _
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[E] [F] He said, Victor, can you make folks cry when you're playing same?
He said, this is where you get off, son.
[C] I'm going back to Alabama. _ _ _
_ _ Well I stepped out of the Cadillac.
[Em] _ [Eb] I said, Mister, many thanks. _
[Em] _ [F] He said, you don't have to call me Mister, Mister.
The whole world called me Hank.
He said, [Eb] Victor, can you [F] make folks cry when you're playing [C] same?
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Have you paid your dues?
Can you mow the [G] blues?
Can you bend them guitar strings? _
[Em] [Eb] And boy, can you make [F] folks feel what you [E] feel [C] inside?
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[Bb] If you're big star [E] bound, [F] let me warn you, it's a long [C] hard _ _ _ _ [Em] _
ride.
_ [C] _ Country [D] DJs swear that [G] I'm an _ outlaw. _
They'd never come see me [C] in this dive.
_ _ Where bikers stare at cowboys [G] laughing [Em] at the hippies.
_ [A] Praying they'll get out of here [D] alive. _ _ _ _
[C] Had a loud mouth [D] in the corners [G] getting to me.
_ _ _ _ _ Talking about my earrings and [C] my hair. _
_ _ And I guess he ain't read the [G] signs that said I've [Em] been to prison. _ _
[A] Someone ought to warn him before [D] I knock him off his chair.
Cause [C] my long hair [D] just can't cover up [G] my _ redneck.
_ _ And I've won every fight I [C] ever fought. _ _ _
And I don't need some turkey [G] telling me that [Em] I ain't country.
_ [A] Saying I ain't worth the damn [D] dope ticket that he bought.
Cause [G] I can sing all them _ _ songs about [C] Texas. _ _
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_ And I still do _ all the sad ones [G] that I know. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ They tell me I look like [C] Merle Haggard. _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] And I sound a lot like David [D] Alan _ _ _ Coe.
[C] And they barmaid in the [D] last town that [G] we played in.
_ _ Knew the words to every [C] song I'd wrote. _ _
_ _ She said Jimmy Rabbit turned [G] her on to [Em] my last album.
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Just about the time the [D] jukebox broke. _
_ _ _ [F] Yeah Johnny Cash [D] helped me get [G] out of prison. _ _ _ _
_ Long before _ Rodericka stole [C] that goat.
_ _ _ _ I've been the rhinestone cowboy for so [G] long I [Em] can't remember.
_ [A] And I can do you every song [D] Hank _ Williams ever _ _ _ _ wrote. _ _
_ _ [N] Yeah but I'd rather sing songs I wrote