Chords for DAVID ALLAN COE The Ride flv

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_ [C] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [F] _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ I was coming from Montgomery, [Eb] had my guitar on my back, [F] when this stranger [C] stopped beside
me in an antique Cadillac.
He was dressed like [Eb] 1950s, half drunk and high [F] since a long walk to Nashville, [C] he liked to ride. _ _ _ _
_ I sat down in the front [Eb] seat, turned on the radio, [Em] and [F] them sad old songs coming out of
them speakers [C] was solid concrete gold.
Then I noticed the stranger was ghost [Eb] right there when I'm asking for a light, [F] yeah I
knew there was something strange [C] about this ride. _
[Bb] He said, can you make folks [F] cry when you [C] play his name?
[Bb] _
[C] Have you played your dues?
Can you mull the [G] blues?
Can you bend down guitar [Bb] strings?
Boy can you [F] make folks feel what you [C] feel [Gm] inside? _
[Bb] If you're big star [F] bound, let me warn you, it's a [C] long hard ride.
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[Eb] [C] Then it crowds the south of Nashville, _ [Eb] you turn that car around, [F] he said this is where
you get off son, [C] I'm going back to Alabama.
I stepped out of the Cadillac, [Eb] I said mister many thanks, [F] he said you don't have to call
me mister, mister.
[C] The whole world calls me hey, [Bb] he said can you make [F] folks cry when you [C] play his [Gm] name? _
[C] Have you played your dues?
Can you mull the blues?
[G] Can you bend down guitar strings?
[Bb] Boy can you make [F] folks feel what you feel [C] inside?
[Bb] _
[C] If [Bb] you're big star bound, [F] let me warn you, it's a long [C] hard ride. _
[Bb] Yeah mister, can you make [F] folks cry when you play [C] his name?
[Bb] _ _
[C] Have you played your dues?
Can you mull [G] the blues?
Can you bend down guitar strings?
[F] [Bb] Boy [F] can you make folks feel [C] what you feel inside?
[Bb] _ _
[C] [Bb] If you're big star bound, [F] let me warn you, it's a long [C] hard ride. _
_ [Bb] You know things [F] aren't like they was in the 50's [C] when I was there son, you got a lot [Gm] of competition now.
[Bb] I mean you got Waylon [F] Jennings and Willie Nelson and [C] Merle Haggard and George Jones.
[Bb] You got Gary Clark and [F] Billy Joe Schaefer and [C] David Allen Cohn.
You even got [Bb] my son Hank [F] Williams Jr.
_ [C] _ _ _
[Bb] Sir, can you [F] make folks cry when you [C] play his name?
[Bb] _
[C] Have you played your dues?
Can you mull the [G] blues?
Can you bend down guitar strings?
[Bb] Boy can you [F] make folks feel what you [C] feel inside?
[Bb] _
[Bb] If you're big star bound, let [F] me warn you, it's [C] a long hard ride.