Chords for Drive-By Truckers Cottonseed

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can't [Eb] _ _ [Gm] _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ tell my [G] story [Dm] to all who shop [F] in the line.
_ [Fm] _ _ Look in their eyes for [Ab] faces in the [C] hideous pride. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Stories of corruption and crime, [Gm] but the killing is a [F] shame. _ _ _ _
_ Breed, fake selections, guns, [Eb] drugs, [C] horrors, booze, you feel?
_ _ _ _ _ [Eb] You feel?
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It's been a while since I put on a suit of [F] my own. _
_ _ _ _ And even [Gm] longer since I cast [Db] my shadow on a [C] church house door.
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_ _ They say every sin is deadly, [Ebm] but I believe they [F] may be wrong.
_ _ _ _ I'm guilty [Db] of all [Eb] seven, I don't feel too bad [C] at all. _ _ _
_ _ _ I [F] used to have a wad of hundred dollar bills in the back pocket of my suit. _ _ _ _
I had a 45 [Dm] underneath my coat and another one [C] in my boot.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F] I drove a big old Cadillac, bought a new one every time I pleased. _ _
_ _ And I put [Dm] more lawmen in the ground than [Db] Alabama [C] blood clots sealed. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Eb] _ [C] I _ _ _ _ _ _ spent a few years on vacation [F] sanctioned by the state I mentioned.
_ _ _ _ To see a man like me [Db] don't do no time too [Bbm] hard to come [C] to the prom. _ _
_ _ _ _ Cause the meanest of the mean you see, you lock away [F] and toss the key. _ _ _ _
But they're just loud mouth [Eb] punks to me, I've scraped neater off [C] my sheet.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F] Somewhere I ain't sayin' there's an old that [Fm] holds a tongue. _ _
_ _ [Eb] The last [Dm] one that I dug myself, and I must admit [C] I was.
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[F] Sad to lay him in it, but I did the best I could.
_ _ He wants [Eb] his honor and [Dm] rose in conscience, but folks out there [Db] just ain't no [C] good. _ _ _ _ _
_ [Fm] And there's [F] a pretty girl out there, said [Eb] daddy you stay home [C] tonight.
_ [Bb] All I [F] need for you is to come [Eb] home and be [C] here by my side.
[Bbm] Say what you gotta [F] say to shut their bibles and their [C] mouths.
[Bb] If there was to tie [Dm] a noose, they'd have [Ab] to lay their bibles down.
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[Db] I ain't here [Cm] to save [Dm] no souls, and even if [F] I could. _ _ _
_ _ [Db] I could never [F] save enough to put back half of the ones [C] I took.
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[Eb] It's [Cm] a rescue [Gm] torment, [Db] you can't say it's cause [F] of me. _
_ _ _ Cause they've long been bought and paid for like I had foes in [C] Tennessee. _ _ _ _ _
_ And I [F] used to have a wild hundred dollar business in the back pocket of my suit.
_ _ _ _ [Eb] I had a forty [Dm] five hundred inch microbe and I don't want it [C] in my food. _ _
_ _ _ I [F] drove a big old Cadillac, bought a new one in time of need. _ _ _ _
And I [Dm] put more lawmen in the [Db] ground than Alabama [C] flip tops. _
_ _ _ _ _ Tonight there's a pretty [F] girl out there, said daddy you stay home [C] tonight.
_ All I [F] need for you is to come home and [C] be here by my side.
[Bb] Say what you gotta [F] say to shut their bibles and their [Cm] mouths.
If there was to [Am] tie a noose, they'd have to [F] lay their bibles [Ab] down. _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Thank you.
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