My Brother and Me Chords by Bruce Robison

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_ _ _ _ _ [D] Grandpa Charlie smoked and drank whiskey, but he [Bm] died in 43.
[D] Nobody liked him and all my [A] kin until my brother and me.
[D] They died in a small town so far [G] back they didn't know what hit him, maybe a heart attack.
[D] That was the drag on my grandma, you know she [A] never really forgave [D] him for that.
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Most every [D] year on Christmas day my dad and me go down where he lay.
[G] I don't know what kind [D] of man he'd be, but he [G] liked my brother [D] and me.
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_ _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ Grandma married a man she [G] found, even poor granddaddy hit the [D] ground.
Took 45 years, but what do you know, [A] well he turned out right around.
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Grandma would tell about the family, [G] how they come on over from Germany.
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Home on over was hard folks, though you know [A] how them Germans [D] can be.
[G] When she died we cried [D] and sang that day with the guitars tuned in a doghouse place.
[G] Nobody sings [D] down low and sweet, [A] not like my [D] brother and me. _
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[D] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [D] Well my great grandpappy on my mother's [G] side made a whole lot of money before [D] he died.
Was a wildcatter and in the Klan besides [A] and that was a matter of pride.
[D] Never wondered where great grandpappy [G] went, he lit a cigar and he's an oxygen [D] tank.
Man of secrets I'll never know, like a letter never sent.
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They're all [D] living like they should, but all the money in the world didn't do them [G] no good.
Their daughter went and married [D] an old hayseed and [G] they had my brother [D] and me.
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Well, _ [D] what do they say about the small town, take the boy out of bandera.
[G] _ [D] I don't know but man it's true, those [A] bright lights will get you down.
[D] I'm gonna stay on the old concrete, [G] cause them city girls they smell so [D] sweet.
And I don't know what the hell they [A] see, but they like my [D] brother and me.
They [A] like my [D] brother and me.
They like my brother a little more than they do me.
They like my brother and me.
_ [G] We go [D] down to the spur some night and listen to the river meet the pale moonlight.
[G] Tell our old buddies [D] what it's like to be [A] just like my brother [D] and me.
[A] Just [D] like my brother and me.
Don't mess with my brother and me.
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_ _ [Em] my brother [D] _ and _ [G] _ me.
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