Chords for Deryl Dodd performs "Things Are Fixin To Get Real Good" on the Texas Music Scene

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_ _ _ _ _ Darryl Dodd is a talented singer-songwriter whose musical journey has taken him to the
top of the charts [Dm] multiple times.
This Fort Worth-based troubadour is [Em] always true to his roots without [F] compromise.
[D] _ The song's called Things Are Fixin' to Get Real Good, and it's [Em] basically a song I wrote
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about my musical journey, where I've been, [D] where I am, and where I'm going.
But I think the line that stands out to me is, [G] uh, I refuse to be something I'm not.
I [Em] didn't make music city news a lot, [D] but I don't give a dang about that now, because
some people like the way I sound, and for me, that's really what it comes down to.
I mean, music is, _ is the language of the soul, and a lot of people say it's not about perfection,
[A#] it's about connection.
That's the way [F#] I look at it.
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[G] _ _ I moved to Nashville back in 91.
_ I was hoping for heaven, but I met the devil's son.
[D] David Allen Coe was right about a long, hard ride.
[C] Hell, you ought to see the little [D] red truck I drive.
[G] Well, I refuse to be something I'm not, [Em] so I didn't make the music city news a lot, [D] but
I don't give a dang about all that now, because some [C] people like the way [D] we sound, and
[G] things are fixing to get real [D] good [Em] in these honky tonks.
I'm understood.
[D] We've been to the school of hard knocks and hard [Bm] wood, [C] and things are fixing [D] to get [G] real good.
_ You better believe it! _
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[G] Well, I made a lot of good friends.
They came from all around.
[Em] We chased women and dreamed while we searched for a sound, [D] but we sank right down the musical
[G] tubes, [C] getting lost in the crowd and [D] drinking too much [G] booze.
Lord knows I did a lot of things wrong, [Em] but I wrote them all down in my country [D] song.
Sometimes you got to go to hell and back [C] just to know where [D] you're at, [E] and [F#m] everybody's [G] saying
things are fixing to get real good in [Em] these old honky tonks.
We're understood.
[D] We've been to the school of hard knocks and hard wood, [Bm] and [C] _ things are fixing [D] to get real [G] _ good.
Yeah, [D] yeah!
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_ _ [G] _ _ are fixing to get real good in [E] these old [Em] honky tonks.
We're all understood.
[D] We've been to the school of hard knocks and hard [Bm] wood, and [C] _ things are fixing [D] to get real [G] _ good. _ _
[D] Howl, [E] howl, _ [Em] howl. _ _ _
You see [D] I've done my dance on salt dust and hard [Bm] wood, [C] and _ things are fixing [D] to _ [C] get [Bm] _ [F#m] real _ good.
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