Chords for David Allen Coe If That Ain't Country

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The old man was covered with tattoos and [Eb] scars.
He got some in prison and others in bars
[F] The rest he got working on old junk [Bb] cars in the daytime
They looked like tombstones in our yard, and [Eb] I never seen him when [F] he wasn't [Bb] tired me
_ _ He sold used parts to make ends meet
[Eb] covered with grease from his head to his feet [F] cussing the sweat and the Texas heat [Bb] and
Mosquitoes and the neighbors said we live like [Eb] hicks, but they brung [F] their cars for Paul [Bb] to fix any hack
He was veteran proud tried and true.
[Eb] He'd fought till his heart was black and blue
[F] Didn't know how he'd made it through [Bb] the hard times
He bought our house on the GI Bill, [Eb] but it wasn't [F] worth all he had to [Bb] kill to get it
He drank pearl in a can and Jack Daniels [Eb] black chewed the backer from a mail pouch [F] sack had an old dog that was
trained to [Bb] attack _ sometimes
He'd get drunk and mean as a [Eb] rattlesnake and there wasn't [F] too much that he would [Bb] take from a stranger
[Eb] There were 13 [F] kids and a bunch of [Bb] dogs
House full of [Eb] chickens in a yard full [F] of hogs
Spent [Eb] the summertime [F] cutting up [Bb] logs for the winter
_ _ [Eb] Trying like [F] the devil to find [Bb] the Lord working like [Eb] a nigger from a room in [F] board
Coal burning stove no natural gas if that ain't country.
I'll kiss your [Bb] ass
That [Eb] ain't country
_ [F] It'll hair [Bb] lift the Pope _
That [Eb] ain't country
[F] It's a damn [Bb] good joke
I've seen [Eb] you grand [F] old
three [Bb] and I met [Eb] Johnny
If that [F] ain't country I
[Bb] Kiss your ass
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_ _ Mama sells eggs at a grocery store
[Eb] My oldest sister is a first-rate whore [F] dad says she can't come home [Bb] anymore.
He means it
I'll just sits and keeps her silence [Eb] sister.
She left [F] cause dad got violent [Bb] and he knows it
Mama, she's old far beyond her time
[Eb] Chopping tobacco and I seen her crying
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When blood started flowing from her [Bb] calloused hand and it hurt me
She just keep working trying to help the old man [Eb] to the end of the one [F] row and back [Bb] again like always
She's been through hell since junior went to jail [Eb] when the lights go out
She ain't never failed [F] to get down on her knees and pray because [Bb] she loves him
Told all the neighbors he was off in the war [Eb] fighting for [F] freedom.
He's good to [Bb] the core and she's proud
Now our place was a graveyard for [Eb] automobiles at the end of the porch
There was four stacks of wheels [F] and tires for sale for a dollar or two [Bb] cash
There [Eb] was 50 [F] holes in the old [Bb] tin roof
Me and my [Eb] family was living proof [F] people who forgot about poor white trash and if that ain't country, [Bb] I'll kiss your ass _
[Eb] That ain't country
[F] It'll [Bb] hurt lip.
Oh _
[Eb] That ain't country
[F] It's [Bb] damn good _
[Eb] I've seen the grand [F] old
ivory [Bb] and I bet [Eb] Johnny
_ That [F] ain't country I'll kiss [Bb] your ass
_ I'm _ _ _ [Eb] _
_ _ _ [F] signing the great [Bb]
speckled bird
I didn't know God made [Eb] honky-tonk
angels [F] and went by Wow
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