Chords for God's Own Drunk
Tempo:
55.8 bpm
Chords used:
E
A
Em
B
Bm
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[E]
[B] [E]
Well, I'll explain to you all before I ain't no drinking man.
[A] I tried it once and it got me highly irregular and I swore I'd never do it again.
[E] But I promised my brother-in-law [A] that I'd go up and watch his still while he went into town to vote.
[E] He was right up on the mountain where the map said it would be.
[A] Friends, let me tell you one thing, though, it was no ordinary still.
[E] It stood up on that mountainside like [A] a huge golden oak.
[E] God's yellow moon was shining on the cool clear evening.
[A] God's little lanterns was twinkling on and off in the [E] heavens.
Well, I'll explain to you once before I ain't no drinking man.
[A] But the temptation got the best of me [E] and I took a slash.
Whoa!
That yellow whiskey running down my throat like honey dew vine water and I took another slap.
Took another and another and [A] another.
Boy, you knew [E] it, I'd down one whole jug of that shit and commence to get hot flashes.
[A] Goose pimples was running up down my body and a feeling came over me like [E] something I'd never experienced before.
Like, [A] like I was in love.
I'm in love, Mike.
[E]
[A] In love for the first time [E] with anything that moved me.
[A] And a minute, and a minute, it didn't matter.
It's like [E] there's a great neon sign flashing on [Bm] and off in my brain saying,
Jimmy [A] Buffett, there's a great day a-coming.
Cause I was [E] drunk.
[A] I wasn't knee crawling, [E] slip sliding, Reggie [A] youngin', mode hugging drunk.
[E] I was God's own drunk, [A] fearless man.
[E] And that's when I first saw the bear.
[A] He was a Kodiak looking fella about [E] 19 feet tall.
He rambled up over the hill expecting me to do one or two [A] things.
Flip [Em] replied I didn't do either one, it hung him up.
[E] He starts sniffing [Em] around my body trying to smell fear.
But [A] he ain't gonna smell no fear cause I'm God's own drunk and a fearless man.
It hung him up.
[E] He looked me right in my eyes and my [A] eyes was a lot redder than his was.
It hung him up.
[E] So I approached him, I said, uh, [A] Mr.
Bear, I [E] love every hair on your 27 acre body.
[A] I know you got a lot of friends over there on the other side of [E] the hill.
There's old rare bear, tall bear, pretty bear, Kelly [A] Jerry, really bear, smell of the bear, smoke of the bear, poke of the bear.
I [E] want you to go back over there tonight and tell them I'm feeling right.
You [A] tell them I love each [E] and every one of them like a brother and a sister.
But if they give me any trouble tonight, [A] I'm gonna run every God damn one of them off the hill.
[E]
[A] He took two steps backwards and didn't know what to think.
[E] Neither did I, but being charitable and cautious, well, [A] hell, I approached him again.
I said, uh, [E] Mr.
Bear, you know in the eyes of the Lord, [A] we're both beasts when it comes right down to it.
[E] So I want you to be my buddy, [A] Buddy Bear.
[E] So I took old Buddy Bear by [Em] his island-sized paw and I led him over to [A] the stick.
Easy sniffing around that thing cause he's smelling something good.
[E] I gave him one of them jugs of honeydew by and mortar.
He downed it [A] upright and looked like one of them damn bears in the circus, sniffing sassfully in the moonlight.
[E] I gave him another and another and another.
Before he knew it, he downed eight of them and [Am] commenced to do the bear [A] dance.
Two sniffs of snore and a fly [E] turn in the grunt.
It was so simple, like the jitterbug it plum evaded me.
[A] And we worked ourselves into a tumultuous [E] uproar.
I was awful tired.
Went over to [A] the hillside and I laid down.
Went to sleep.
[E] Slept for four hours and dreamt me some tremulous dreams.
[A] And when I woke up, [E] oh, there was God's yellow moon shining on the [A] coopery.
God's little lanterns was a-twinkling [E] on and off in the heavens.
My buddy the [F#] bear [A] was a-missing.
[E] Yeah.
You [C] want to know something else, friends and neighbors?
[Em] So was that still.
[E]
[A] That's a take.
[B] Wait, could, uh, you missed it?
[B] [E]
Well, I'll explain to you all before I ain't no drinking man.
[A] I tried it once and it got me highly irregular and I swore I'd never do it again.
[E] But I promised my brother-in-law [A] that I'd go up and watch his still while he went into town to vote.
[E] He was right up on the mountain where the map said it would be.
[A] Friends, let me tell you one thing, though, it was no ordinary still.
[E] It stood up on that mountainside like [A] a huge golden oak.
[E] God's yellow moon was shining on the cool clear evening.
[A] God's little lanterns was twinkling on and off in the [E] heavens.
Well, I'll explain to you once before I ain't no drinking man.
[A] But the temptation got the best of me [E] and I took a slash.
Whoa!
That yellow whiskey running down my throat like honey dew vine water and I took another slap.
Took another and another and [A] another.
Boy, you knew [E] it, I'd down one whole jug of that shit and commence to get hot flashes.
[A] Goose pimples was running up down my body and a feeling came over me like [E] something I'd never experienced before.
Like, [A] like I was in love.
I'm in love, Mike.
[E]
[A] In love for the first time [E] with anything that moved me.
[A] And a minute, and a minute, it didn't matter.
It's like [E] there's a great neon sign flashing on [Bm] and off in my brain saying,
Jimmy [A] Buffett, there's a great day a-coming.
Cause I was [E] drunk.
[A] I wasn't knee crawling, [E] slip sliding, Reggie [A] youngin', mode hugging drunk.
[E] I was God's own drunk, [A] fearless man.
[E] And that's when I first saw the bear.
[A] He was a Kodiak looking fella about [E] 19 feet tall.
He rambled up over the hill expecting me to do one or two [A] things.
Flip [Em] replied I didn't do either one, it hung him up.
[E] He starts sniffing [Em] around my body trying to smell fear.
But [A] he ain't gonna smell no fear cause I'm God's own drunk and a fearless man.
It hung him up.
[E] He looked me right in my eyes and my [A] eyes was a lot redder than his was.
It hung him up.
[E] So I approached him, I said, uh, [A] Mr.
Bear, I [E] love every hair on your 27 acre body.
[A] I know you got a lot of friends over there on the other side of [E] the hill.
There's old rare bear, tall bear, pretty bear, Kelly [A] Jerry, really bear, smell of the bear, smoke of the bear, poke of the bear.
I [E] want you to go back over there tonight and tell them I'm feeling right.
You [A] tell them I love each [E] and every one of them like a brother and a sister.
But if they give me any trouble tonight, [A] I'm gonna run every God damn one of them off the hill.
[E]
[A] He took two steps backwards and didn't know what to think.
[E] Neither did I, but being charitable and cautious, well, [A] hell, I approached him again.
I said, uh, [E] Mr.
Bear, you know in the eyes of the Lord, [A] we're both beasts when it comes right down to it.
[E] So I want you to be my buddy, [A] Buddy Bear.
[E] So I took old Buddy Bear by [Em] his island-sized paw and I led him over to [A] the stick.
Easy sniffing around that thing cause he's smelling something good.
[E] I gave him one of them jugs of honeydew by and mortar.
He downed it [A] upright and looked like one of them damn bears in the circus, sniffing sassfully in the moonlight.
[E] I gave him another and another and another.
Before he knew it, he downed eight of them and [Am] commenced to do the bear [A] dance.
Two sniffs of snore and a fly [E] turn in the grunt.
It was so simple, like the jitterbug it plum evaded me.
[A] And we worked ourselves into a tumultuous [E] uproar.
I was awful tired.
Went over to [A] the hillside and I laid down.
Went to sleep.
[E] Slept for four hours and dreamt me some tremulous dreams.
[A] And when I woke up, [E] oh, there was God's yellow moon shining on the [A] coopery.
God's little lanterns was a-twinkling [E] on and off in the heavens.
My buddy the [F#] bear [A] was a-missing.
[E] Yeah.
You [C] want to know something else, friends and neighbors?
[Em] So was that still.
[E]
[A] That's a take.
[B] Wait, could, uh, you missed it?
Key:
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B
Bm
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A
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_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
Well, I'll explain to you all before I ain't no drinking man. _
[A] I tried it once and it got me highly irregular and I swore I'd never do it again.
[E] _ But I promised my brother-in-law [A] that I'd go up and watch his still while he went into town to vote.
[E] He was right up on the mountain where the map said it would be.
[A] Friends, let me tell you one thing, though, it was no ordinary still.
[E] It stood up on that mountainside like [A] a huge golden oak.
_ [E] God's yellow moon was shining on the cool clear evening.
[A] God's little lanterns was twinkling on and off in the [E] heavens.
Well, I'll explain to you once before I ain't no drinking man.
[A] But the temptation got the best of me [E] and I took a slash.
Whoa!
That yellow whiskey running down my throat like honey dew vine water and I took another slap. _
Took another and another and [A] another.
Boy, you knew [E] it, I'd down one whole jug of that shit and commence to get hot flashes. _ _
[A] Goose pimples was running up down my body and a feeling came over me like [E] something I'd never experienced before.
Like, [A] like I was in love.
I'm in love, Mike.
[E] _ _ _
_ [A] In love for the first time _ [E] with anything that moved me.
[A] And a minute, and a minute, it didn't matter.
It's like [E] there's a great neon sign flashing on [Bm] and off in my brain saying,
Jimmy [A] Buffett, there's a great day a-coming.
Cause I was [E] drunk. _ _
_ [A] I wasn't knee crawling, [E] slip sliding, Reggie [A] youngin', mode hugging drunk.
_ _ [E] I was God's own drunk, [A] fearless man.
_ [E] And that's when I first saw the bear.
_ [A] _ He was a Kodiak looking fella about [E] 19 feet tall.
He rambled up over the hill expecting me to do one or two [A] things.
Flip [Em] replied I didn't do either one, it hung him up.
_ [E] He starts sniffing [Em] around my body trying to smell fear.
But [A] he ain't gonna smell no fear cause I'm God's own drunk and a fearless man.
It hung him up.
[E] _ He looked me right in my eyes and my [A] eyes was a lot redder than his was.
It hung him up.
_ [E] So I approached him, I said, uh, [A] Mr.
Bear, I [E] love every hair on your 27 acre body.
_ [A] I know you got a lot of friends over there on the other side of [E] the hill.
There's old rare bear, tall bear, pretty bear, Kelly [A] Jerry, really bear, smell of the bear, smoke of the bear, poke of the bear.
I [E] want you to go back over there tonight and tell them I'm feeling right.
You [A] tell them I love each [E] and every one of them like a brother and a sister.
_ But if they give me any trouble tonight, [A] I'm gonna run every God damn one of them off the hill.
[E] _ _ _
_ [A] He took two steps backwards and didn't know what to think.
[E] Neither did I, but being charitable and cautious, well, [A] hell, I approached him again.
I said, uh, [E] Mr.
Bear, you know in the eyes of the Lord, [A] we're both beasts when it comes right down to it.
_ [E] So I want you to be my buddy, _ [A] Buddy Bear.
[E] So I took old Buddy Bear by [Em] his island-sized paw and I led him over to [A] the stick.
Easy sniffing around that thing cause he's smelling something good.
[E] I gave him one of them jugs of honeydew by and mortar.
He downed it [A] upright and looked like one of them damn bears in the circus, sniffing sassfully in the moonlight.
[E] I gave him another and another and another.
Before he knew it, he downed eight of them and [Am] commenced to do the bear [A] dance.
Two sniffs of snore and a fly [E] turn in the grunt.
It was so simple, like the jitterbug it plum evaded me.
[A] _ And we worked ourselves into a tumultuous [E] uproar.
I was awful tired.
Went over to [A] the hillside and I laid down.
Went to sleep.
[E] Slept for four hours and dreamt me some tremulous dreams.
[A] _ And when I woke up, [E] oh, there was God's yellow moon shining on the [A] coopery.
God's little lanterns was a-twinkling [E] on and off in the heavens.
My buddy the [F#] bear [A] was a-missing.
_ _ _ [E] Yeah.
You [C] want to know something else, friends and neighbors?
_ [Em] So was that still.
[E] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] That's a take.
_ [B] Wait, could, uh, you missed it?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
Well, I'll explain to you all before I ain't no drinking man. _
[A] I tried it once and it got me highly irregular and I swore I'd never do it again.
[E] _ But I promised my brother-in-law [A] that I'd go up and watch his still while he went into town to vote.
[E] He was right up on the mountain where the map said it would be.
[A] Friends, let me tell you one thing, though, it was no ordinary still.
[E] It stood up on that mountainside like [A] a huge golden oak.
_ [E] God's yellow moon was shining on the cool clear evening.
[A] God's little lanterns was twinkling on and off in the [E] heavens.
Well, I'll explain to you once before I ain't no drinking man.
[A] But the temptation got the best of me [E] and I took a slash.
Whoa!
That yellow whiskey running down my throat like honey dew vine water and I took another slap. _
Took another and another and [A] another.
Boy, you knew [E] it, I'd down one whole jug of that shit and commence to get hot flashes. _ _
[A] Goose pimples was running up down my body and a feeling came over me like [E] something I'd never experienced before.
Like, [A] like I was in love.
I'm in love, Mike.
[E] _ _ _
_ [A] In love for the first time _ [E] with anything that moved me.
[A] And a minute, and a minute, it didn't matter.
It's like [E] there's a great neon sign flashing on [Bm] and off in my brain saying,
Jimmy [A] Buffett, there's a great day a-coming.
Cause I was [E] drunk. _ _
_ [A] I wasn't knee crawling, [E] slip sliding, Reggie [A] youngin', mode hugging drunk.
_ _ [E] I was God's own drunk, [A] fearless man.
_ [E] And that's when I first saw the bear.
_ [A] _ He was a Kodiak looking fella about [E] 19 feet tall.
He rambled up over the hill expecting me to do one or two [A] things.
Flip [Em] replied I didn't do either one, it hung him up.
_ [E] He starts sniffing [Em] around my body trying to smell fear.
But [A] he ain't gonna smell no fear cause I'm God's own drunk and a fearless man.
It hung him up.
[E] _ He looked me right in my eyes and my [A] eyes was a lot redder than his was.
It hung him up.
_ [E] So I approached him, I said, uh, [A] Mr.
Bear, I [E] love every hair on your 27 acre body.
_ [A] I know you got a lot of friends over there on the other side of [E] the hill.
There's old rare bear, tall bear, pretty bear, Kelly [A] Jerry, really bear, smell of the bear, smoke of the bear, poke of the bear.
I [E] want you to go back over there tonight and tell them I'm feeling right.
You [A] tell them I love each [E] and every one of them like a brother and a sister.
_ But if they give me any trouble tonight, [A] I'm gonna run every God damn one of them off the hill.
[E] _ _ _
_ [A] He took two steps backwards and didn't know what to think.
[E] Neither did I, but being charitable and cautious, well, [A] hell, I approached him again.
I said, uh, [E] Mr.
Bear, you know in the eyes of the Lord, [A] we're both beasts when it comes right down to it.
_ [E] So I want you to be my buddy, _ [A] Buddy Bear.
[E] So I took old Buddy Bear by [Em] his island-sized paw and I led him over to [A] the stick.
Easy sniffing around that thing cause he's smelling something good.
[E] I gave him one of them jugs of honeydew by and mortar.
He downed it [A] upright and looked like one of them damn bears in the circus, sniffing sassfully in the moonlight.
[E] I gave him another and another and another.
Before he knew it, he downed eight of them and [Am] commenced to do the bear [A] dance.
Two sniffs of snore and a fly [E] turn in the grunt.
It was so simple, like the jitterbug it plum evaded me.
[A] _ And we worked ourselves into a tumultuous [E] uproar.
I was awful tired.
Went over to [A] the hillside and I laid down.
Went to sleep.
[E] Slept for four hours and dreamt me some tremulous dreams.
[A] _ And when I woke up, [E] oh, there was God's yellow moon shining on the [A] coopery.
God's little lanterns was a-twinkling [E] on and off in the heavens.
My buddy the [F#] bear [A] was a-missing.
_ _ _ [E] Yeah.
You [C] want to know something else, friends and neighbors?
_ [Em] So was that still.
[E] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] That's a take.
_ [B] Wait, could, uh, you missed it?