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D _ _
Em _ _
G _ .
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C _ _ _
G Well me and my
D lady had our first big
Em fight, so I drove around
G till I saw the neon
C lights of a corner bar.
G And it just seemed right, so I pulled up.
Am _
G Not a soul around but the old barkeep down at the end lookin' half asleep.
C But he walked
G up and said, why let me?.
Am I said, the good stuff.
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G C He didn't reach
D around for the whiskey.
C He didn't pour
G me a beer.
D C His blue eyes kinda
D went misty.
Em He said, you can't find that
D here.
G Cause it's the first long
D kiss on the second date.
Em Mama's all
G worried when you get home
C late.
And drop the
G ring in the spaghetti plate,
Am cause your
G hands are shaking
C so
D much.
G And it's the way that she looks
D with her rice in her
Em hair.
Eatin' birch
G suffers the whole first
C year.
And askin' for
G seconds to keep her from
Am G tearin'
C up.
G Yeah man, that's the good
D stuff.
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C _ _ _
G He grabbed a carton of
D milk and he poured a
G glass.
And I smiled and said, I'll have some of that.
C We sat there and
G talked as an hour
Am passed like old friends.
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G I saw a black and white
D picture and it caught my
G stare.
It was a pretty girl with bouffant hair.
C He said, that's my
G boss.
Takin' about a
Am year after we wed.
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G C He said, I spent five
G years in the
D bar
C when the cancer
G took her from
D me.
C But I've been
G sober three
D years
A now.
Cause the
Bm one thing
C stronger than the
D whiskey
G was the sight of her
D holdin' our baby
G girl.
The way she adored that string of
C pearls.
I gave her the
G day that our youngest boy
Am G married his
C high school
D love.
G And it's a new t-shirt
D sayin' I'm a
Em grandpa.
Been right
G there as our time got
C small.
And holdin' her
G hand when the good Lord
C G called her
C up.
D Yeah
G man, that's the good
D.
stuff.
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G _ _
D _ .
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C _ _ _
D He said, when you get
G home she'll start to cry.
D When she says I'm
G sorry, say so am I.
D Look into
Em those
G eyes
C so deep in love.
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D And drink it up.
G Cause that's the good stuff.
_ _
C _ _ .
G That's the good
D stuff.
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