Chords for Dead skunk in the middle of the road. (banjo lesson) Mike Haduck

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_ _ Dead [D] Skunk in the middle of the [C] road, Dead Skunk in [G] the middle of the road, Dead [D] Skunk
in the middle of the road, [C] singing hi!
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_ [G] _ _ [N] _ Hi, I'm Mike Haddock and this is the song, The Dead Skunk.
It came out in the 70's, it was written by Loudon Wainwright III.
And it's actually, you could almost say it's an American classic.
When we play out we get just as much requests for this song as we do
1814, Old Susanna, Foggy Mom Breakdown.
It's a [G] lot of genius in it because there's only three chords in it.
There's G, [Dm] there's D, _ [C] there's C, [G] and you go back to G.
It goes over and over and over so anybody can follow you in any band,
anywhere you play.
_ And it's a funny song and it always gets the people going.
The three things, four things that makes a song successful.
So basically when I'm singing it, you can play the song a few different ways.
You can strum it, you can pick it, _ _ _ really pick it.
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_ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ [D] What I do is I [G] kind of strum it, you get it going, and then I pick it up.
_ Gives me time to adjust my volume, my tune. _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ [C] _ [G] _ And when I start singing, I strum it.
So the point is, I don't have to be a genius banjo player to do this.
It's my way of doing it so we all know how to strum it.
It's plunk up.
Plunk, chop, plunk, chop, plunk, chop.
Crossing the highway [D] late last night.
[C] Shoot a look [G] left and I shoot a look right.
That's one way to do it.
If you want to pick it this way.
_ _ _ Crossing the highway [D] late last night.
[C] Shoot a look [G] left and I shoot a look right.
But when I come to the lead part between the words, I always pick it like this.
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_ [G] _ And I'll show you [F#] that and then at [G#] the end of the video,
you're going to see me playing a couple minutes in the band, half a minute.
So here's the picking pattern [G] I use. _
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_ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ And just remember G, D, C.
And here's a short clip of us playing in the band how we do it.
We move backwards.
Head, trunk, [Dm] kibble, kibble on the road.
[C]
Head, trunk, [G] kibble, kibble on the road.
Head, trunk, [D] kibble, kibble on the road.
[C] Stick your tongue out, [G] head, oh yeah.
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_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ [C] _
_ [G] _ Grab your neck, grab [Dm] your neck, and you take off.
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