Chords for Mac McAnally, Back Where I Come From

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I make a [Gb] lot of fun of my [F] little hometown, but [G] in all honesty, I'm really proud that
[Em] I hit the ground [Eb] where I hit the ground, among the family that I landed [C] among.
Some fine [D] people that deserve better than me, but I'm what they got, and I'm mighty
[Bb] grateful that it happened.
[G] I wrote this song.
It's [D] kind of a written apology to my hometown for all the fun I've poked at [E] it over the years.
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_ [E] _ _ [N] _ Well, a couple of folks encouraged me to be a writer, and I bought and I rebuilt, [Gb] and
eventually they got short-winded about it, and they came up and said, Mac, in the unlikely
event that you ever grow up, what do you think you would like to be?
I said, well, [N] I think I'd like to be a Southern intellectual.
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So that could be a problem.
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Most people in the world don't think there's any such thing as a Southern [C] intellectual.
It's an oxymoronic term.
The words don't go together.
It's like free will and Baptist. _
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_ Stumbled [G] along as a Southern smart elephant, that's working out okay.
This song's called Back [E] Where I Come From.
I'm mighty grateful that this is where I [F] come from. _ _ _ _
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In the [C] town where I was raised, the clock ticks [Bb] and the cattle [F] graze.
The time [C] passed with amazing [Am] grace, back where [Bb] I come from.
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You can [C] lie on the river bank, or paint your name on the water [F] tank, and [C] discount all the
bears you've had, back where [F] I come from.
[C] Yeah, back [Bb] where I come [F] from, where I'll be [G] when the sun [C] comes. _
[G] _ _ Back where I come from, that's where I [C] come from.
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[Bb] _ _ _ [F] We [C] learned in something [Am] still, who made [Bb] the sun shine through.
[F] I know who [G] made the moon shine [Am] through, back where [Bb] I come from.
_ [F] Blue [G] eyes on a Saturday night, [Am] tan [Bb] legs in broad [F] daylight.
The TV's, [C] they were black and [Am] white, back where I come [Bb] from.
[C] Yeah, back [Bb] where I, [F] where I'll be [G] when it's setting up.
[C] Not a [Bb] thousand [F] more, that's where I [C] come from.
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_ [F] Some say [Cm] it's a backward [Am] place, narrow minds [Bb] on the narrow [F] way.
I make [C] it a point to say, [Am] that's where I come [G] _ from.
[C] Yeah, that's [Bb] where I come from, [F] where I'll [Bb] be when it's setting [C] up.
Not a [F]
thousand more, that's where I [C] come from.
Back [Bb] where I come [F] from, I'm an old man since ten B.
[C] Not as [Bb] proud as you are, [Am] that's where [C] I come from.
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_ [Am] _ _ [Bb] That's where I come [F] from, _ [C] _ _ [Am] _ _
_ [Bb] where I [F] go from. _
_ _ [Am] _ _ [Bb] That's where I [F] come from.
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I appreciate it, [Ab] people. _ _ _ _
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