Chords for Mel McDaniel -- Shoe String

[Bm] _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ [D] _ _ _
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He [D] lived down by the railroad track, had an old wood stove in a one room shack.
[G] Shoestring was [F] the only name he [D] had. _
_ When I'd skip school he'd take me fishing, sitting on the creek bank, talking and wishing
[G] things were good [F] when the other times [A] got [D] bad.
[A] And the people [D] say, Shoestring, you ain't got no money.
Shoestring, you can't hang around here.
Shoestring, you got your hat on backward.
He knows more than most folks do, but he don't talk unless you ask him to. _ _
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_ _ [F] _ [Bm] _ [A] _ [D] When the winter comes and the wind blows mean, Shoestring hops that southbound [G] train, rides
it [F] down below that [D] Florida line.
_ _ But he's laying low and picking fruit, sleeping in his worn out [G] shoes, but he'll always [F] come
back come [A] summertime.
_ And the folks [D] say, Shoestring, you ain't got no money.
Shoestring, you can't hang around here.
Shoestring, you got your hat on backward.
He knows more than most folks do, but he don't talk unless you ask him to.
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[A] _ [D] The last time I looked and found him gone, folks said he was in an old [G] folks' home.
Shoestring's [F] unretired [D] old Uncle Sam.
_ He's living it up in his private room, playing checkers and eating [G] prunes.
[F] Shoestring ain't no [A] ordinary man.
Still [D] the people say, Shoestring, you ain't got no money.
Shoestring, you can't hang around here!
Shoestring, you got your hat on backwards.
He knows more than most folks do, but he don't talk unless you ask him to.
Shoestring, you ain't got no money.
Shoestring, you can't hang around here!
Shoestens, you got your hat on backwards.
He knows more than most folks do, but he don't talk unless you ask him to. _ _ _ _
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