Chords for Radney Foster Performs "Not In My House" on The Texas Music Scene TV

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[A#] I love _ _ _ _ _ the message behind this [E] tune.
As my good friend Mr.
Foster points out,
we should all pay attention to how much we can hurt others
with our words.
_ That song was really inspired by [Dm] a conversation with my daughter.
[D] She came home from school, she's 11 [G] years old, you know,
and she's in just a terrible state.
She was just [A] starting middle school in fifth [D] grade.
She came home and asked me what a word meant,
and I was kind of shocked [E] to hear it out of her [Bm] mouth.
I said, where did you hear that?
[G] She said, well, some of [E] the girls used it at school,
and I didn't [D] know what it meant, but it sounded bad to me.
[Em] And I said, well, _ you know, it's about a [A] woman's sexuality, hon,
and there's nothing good [Em] about it.
It's just to make somebody feel [B] small or feel bad.
It's not really something you should [F#m] use.
[Em] It just ate at [D] me, and I remember I put [Bm] _ the kids to bed,
and my wife went to sleep early,
and I [G] _
_ poured [D] myself a bourbon on the [B] rocks,
and I walked out in that backyard and was [D#] just praying to God,
[D] and I just [A] cried like a baby.
[F#m] _ _ I just thought, [Gm] I don't want that in my house. _
[A] And just the loss of innocence [D] for her.
_ So I was going to write the [F#m] next day with Alan [G] Shamblin,
and I called him up.
I said, man, I don't know what [F#m] you have in mind to write about,
but I hope you like [D] this [A] idea.
And he said, absolutely, I'll write [G] that with you.
And we just took it to the next level by talking about _ hate speech
and that there's nothing good about it.
I don't care who it's about.
[D] I don't want that in my house.
And I've [A] always considered that when I'm playing on stage,
_ that's my house for that night.
It might be somebody [G] else's house tomorrow night.
When I'm on stage, as long as I'm on stage, that's my house.
[A] So we kind of took that [D] point of view, too.
So [E] it's not in my house.
[D] I don't want that in my house.
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_ _ _ [Am] I'm a son of the South who heard that word too [C] much. _
Growing up, _ [Am] something down in my soul
knew that it was [F] a story you shouldn't touch.
_ All [G] that hate, all [Dm] that shame, all [Am] that anger, all that [F] pain,
_ [G] redneck racist, hip-hop [Dm] rapper, some kid using it just [D] for laughter.
Not in [A] my house, not from [F] my mouth.
I'm going [G] to sing for the souls that get kicked around.
[A] Words shouldn't be [F] a laughing just to cut [G] you down. _
_ Not in [Am] my _ _ house.
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_ _ _ [A] There's a guy on the street with a sign that says, God hate [F] fags.
And that's so wrong.
_ [A] It rushes my soul to see [Am] evil burn so [F] strong. _ _
_ Stone [G]-damned sticks, _ politics.
[Dm] _ _ If the [A] devil holds your coat, why [F] are you getting your arrest?
[G] I don't think so [Dm] small, but [F] God so _ _ _ _ big.
[D] Not in my [A] house, [Am] not from my [F] mouth.
I'm going [G] to sing for the souls that get kicked around.
[Am] Words shouldn't be a [F] laughing just to cut [G] you down. _
_ Not in [A] my house.
Not _ _ [Am] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
_ _ in my [A] house.
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_ _ _ Not on this day.
_ [G] _ [Am] Me and this six-string [G] machine are going to kill some [F] hate. _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ Because you don't talk to my friends that [Cm] way.
You don't talk to my brothers [C] that way.
And you damn sure don't talk to [F] my daughter that way.
_ _ Not in [Am] my house, not from my [F] mouth.
Not on [G] my watch, not when I lay you _ down.
[A] _ Words aren't a weapon just to cut a woman _ [G] _ down.
_ Not in [A] my house, not from my mouth.
I'm [G] going to sing for the souls that get kicked around.
[A] Words shouldn't be a laughing just to cut [G] you _ down.
_ _ Not in [Am] my _ _ _ house.
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_ _ Not in [A] my _ [Am] _
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_ Not in [A] my house. _ _ _
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