New Cut Road Chords by Mckay & Leigh

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_ _ Coleman Bonner was a fiddle-playing fool [C#] He's a backwoods rounder and a breaker [C#m] of
mules [C#] _ Coleman Bonner's got a war-rout bow
He's [F#] been playing two days down the New Cubs road
Coleman's little sister said, you better act right, Coleman
[C#] Daddy's gone to Louisville, he'll be back tonight
He's gonna get another wagon and a good pair of mules
[F#] When we gonna move to Texas, we just waiting on you
Now Coleman's daddy, he pulled up in the yard
He [C#] said, pack up your life skids, it's getting too hard
[G#] Kentucky's alright, but there's too many people
[F#] Why, just the other day I thought I saw a church steeple
Coleman said, Daddy, don't you worry about me
[C#] I'm gonna stay here in Kentucky till the day I die
[G#m] I'm gonna drink that sour [C#] mash, I'm gonna race that mare
[F#] I got me a woman with a fox red hair Now y'all been moving west since the day you
got married [C#] I'm getting off the wagon, Daddy, I'm too
old to be carried I'm gonna stay here in Kentucky where the
bluegrass grows [F#] I'm gonna play it all night down the New
Carolina road _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [F#] _ _ _ Now _ _ _ _ Coleman's daddy said, what's it all coming
to [C#] Young people these days are just as [G#] stubborn
as mules You can't make him go, he's too old for
that [C#] It's that damn gold fiddle and that bowler
[F#] hat Now Coleman's mama said, let the boy stay
[C#] Cause he's raised up solid, he can find his own way
But as for me, honey, I'm with you [F#] I always thought Kentucky was just [D#] passing
[F#] through Now Coleman's little sister, then she
started in a crime [C#] His daddy shook his head for the very last
time _ _ Coleman's mama said, [A#m] somebody's gotta do
it [F#] It wouldn't be no Kentucky lest you didn't
stick to it, Coleman Coleman Bonner stood on the porch of that
cabin [C#] Watched them all go to Texas in a cover
wagon He pulled out his fiddle and he rised up
his bow [F#] And he played a little tune called the New Carolina Road _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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