Chords for Drive-By Truckers - Southern Thing

[Bb] _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] Ain't about my pistol, ain't about my boots, [Dm] ain't about no northern droughts, ain't about
my southern roots, [C] ain't about my guitar, ain't about my [G] big ol' lamps, [D] it ain't raining
weeks, but the weather's sharp as that, [G] ain't about excuses [C] or alibis, [Dm] ain't about no cotton
_ picking lies, [G] ain't about the [C] racist, [G] the crime [C] scene, [D] to the fucking rich men, all
poor people look the [Dm] same, _ _ [G] don't [D] _ get me wrong, [F] _ [G] _ _ [D] it just ain't right, [F] _ [G] _ _ [D] I ain't too strong, [F] _ [G] _ [D] but
I ain't afraid to fight, _ [F] _ [G] _ _ [D] if you wanna live [F] _ [G] _ _ [D] _ another day, [C] stay out the way of the southern
thing, ain't about no hatred, [G] better raise your glass, [Dm] it's a little fast and revels,
but it ain't about the past, [G] ain't about no foolish [Gm] pride, ain't about no [C] pride, [D] it's
the only thing that my truck was born to do, _ _ [G] _
[D] you think I'm dumb, [F] _ [G] _ _
[D] maybe not too bright,
[F] _ [G] _ _
[D] you wonder how, [F] _ [G] _ [F] _
[D] I sleep at night, [G] _ _ [F] _
[D] proud of the glory, _ [G] _ _ [D] _
stare down the shade, [F] duality of
the southern thing, _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [A] _
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[F] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [A] _
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[G] my great great [C] granddad, had a hole in his [G] side, [D] he used to tell the
story to the [Dm] family Christmas night, [Gm] [C] got shot at shallow, thought he [G] died alone, [D] I ain't
gonna let you bully less than 30 miles from home, [G] _ [C] ain't no plantation, ain't my family
[F] trade, [Dm] ain't dead believe in slavery, thought that all men should be free, [C] blue eyes and
soldiers, marked through his land, [D] his bride could hear the cannons and she worried about
her man, _ [G] I _ [D] _ heard the story _ [F] [G] as _ [D] it was passed _ [G] down, _ _ [D] black cats and glory, _ [G] _ _ [D] _ and revels stand,
[G] _ _ [F] _ [D] my generation, [F] _ [G] _ _ [D] _ a lot has [F] changed, [G] _ _ [D] _ Robert Ealy, [F] _ [G] _ _ [Dm] _ Martin Luther King, _
_ [G] _ _ [Dm] we [D] came a long way, [Dm] _ [G] _ _ [D] rising
from the grave, stay out of the way of the southern thing, stay out of the way of the
southern thing, stay [Db] out of the way of the southern thing, [A] stay out of the way of the [F] southern thing. _
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