Chords for Robert Earl Keen - Five Pound Bass

_ _ _ _ I lived in [Fm] Austin here a few years ago with a guy from _ Barnesville, Ohio
and we lived in a _
one room
apartment basement apartment that filled up with water when it rained and _ _
We were would be fishermen so it was very [Gm] convenient for us
_ _ But JD wanted to be the bass master of the universe
[G] _ He even had a name a [Ab] cliff turhune bass [B] master the universe
And he wanted to go out and catch [G] the five-pound bass
_ Which he figured was the minimum size for a wallhanger bass
_ _ _ And he talked about it [A] so much that it became a metaphor for anything good in your whole life
You know like if you got money in the mail
_ Son, that's a five pound bass
_ And if you hook the toaster son, that's a five pound [G] bass _
_ _ _ You got [Am] a ten pound bass son, that's a [G] five pound bass
_ This is the five pound bass _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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Up this morning before the Sun fix me some coffee and [D] a honey bun _
[G] Jump in my pickup [C] gave her the gas.
[G] I'm going out [D] to catch a [G] five pound bass _
Down by the lakeside just off the ram all the people sleeping in [D] there
Fishing [G] camp somebody in the puff [C] tins some out on the grass.
[G] They all be [D] dreaming about the [G] five pound bass _ _
[C] The bird [G] always gets his one [C] me.
I always get [G] my way _
[C] When you talk [G] about that _ _ _
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[G] Jump in my town boat, I stole my gear I fire up [D] and when I'm in the clear
[G] Save it all that [C] water
Smooth [G] glass.
It's ready.
[A] Here I come you
[G] Five _ -pound _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
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I found perfect spice of old dead trees _
Back in a canyon [D] where you can't feel [G] no breeze
That time of the world.
I make my cast _
breakfast [Dm] time
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That old Sun is rising that waters clear I watch my lure [D] as it's flying through the [G] air
_ _ I'll see a ripple _
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_ _ _ Iris play _ _
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_ _ [G] _ Lord have mercy.
[D] It's a
_ _ 5,000 [Db] pound
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