Chords for Montgomery Gentry - Something To Be Proud Of

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_ _ _ [G] _ [C] _ _ There's a story that my daddy [G] tells [C] religiously, _ like clockwork every time he sees [G] an [C] opening
in a [C] conversation, _ _ _ [G] _ [C] like the way things used to be.
_ _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ I'd just roll my eyes and make [G] a [C] beeline for the door.
I'd always end up starry-eyed, [G] cross [C]-legged on the floor, [G] hanging [C] on to every word.
_ [G] _ [C] Man, the things I heard.
_ [G] _ [C] _ _ _ [G] It was harder times and longer days, [F] five miles to school, uphill both ways.
[G] We were king-switched, raised at dirt floor poor.
[F] Of course, that was back before the [G] war.
Yeah, your uncle and I made quite a pair, [F] flying at 15s through hostile air.
[C] He went down, [G] but they missed me [F] by a hair.
_ _ He'd always stop right there [C] and say,
That's something to be proud of.
[F] That's a life you can hang your [C] hat on.
Had your chin held high as a deer falls [G] down, guts upstairs, chest dug out [C] like a small-town
braggart flying, [F] or a newborn baby crying.
[C] Yeah, the arms that [G] you love, that's something to [C] be proud of. _ _
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_ _ I was ungraduating college.
That was [G] Mama's dream.
[C] _ I was on [G] my way to anywhere else [C] when I turned [G] 18.
[C] You got a fast car. _
[G] You think you got [C] everything. _ _ _ _
_ _ I learned quick those GTOs don't run [G] on faith.
[C] I ended up broken down in some town north of LA, [F] working [G] maximum hours, [C] _ _
_ four-million a week. _ _ _
_ _ [G] Well, I fell in love next thing I know.
[F] The babies came and the car [G] got sold.
Sure do miss that old hot rod.
[F] Sure save gas in them [C] foreign jobs.
[G] Dad, I wonder if I ever let you [F] down.
If you're ashamed [G] how I turned out.
[C] Well, he lowered his [G] voice, then he [F] raised his brow, _ _ said,
Let me tell you right now.
[C] That's something to be proud of.
[F] That's a life you can hang your hat on.
[C] You don't need to make a million.
Just [G] be thankful to be working.
[C] If you're doing what you're able, [F] putting food there on the table.
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Everybody's full of the family [G] that you love.
That's something to [F] be proud of.
_ [C] _ _ [F] And just knowing you'll ever really do is the best you can.
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_ _ You did it, man.
[C] That's something to be proud of.
That's a life you can [F] hang your [C] hat on.
That's a chin held high until it falls [G] down.
[A] Guts up [G] there, just stuck [C] out like a small town flag.
I'm flying [F] for a newborn baby crying [C] in the arms of the woman [G] that you love.
That's something to [C] be proud of.
That's something to [F] be proud of.
That's [C] something to be proud of.
That's something to [G] be proud of.
That's something to be [C] proud of.
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