Chords for Small Town Southern Man - Alan Jackson | Guitar Lesson

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_ [Ab] Hey guitar friend, I hope you're all doing great today.
Thank you so much for being here.
Today's video is for Anthony.
He requested the song called Small Town Southern Man
by Alan Jackson, so that's what I'm gonna be showing you.
We're gonna be playing it with the capo on the third fret.
We only need three chords for this song,
and they [Eb] are D, _ [Ab] G, and [Bb] A.
So I'm gonna show you how to play [C] this,
and I'm also gonna show you that little [F] lead intro part
if you wanna stick around for that.
But let's go ahead and jump in here.
[Ab] All right, so first I'm just gonna
strum through the intro for you.
Here's what the intro sounds like.
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[Ab] _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Ab] _ _ [Eb] _ _
[C] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _
All right, and I'm just doing a simple
down, up, down, up strumming pattern for this song.
[G] So let's go ahead and play through the first verse [Ab] here.
♪ One [Eb] male son of a farmer, [Bb] he's a small town southern [Eb] man ♪
♪ _ [Ab] Like his [Eb] daddy's daddy [Bb] before him brought him workin' on land _ _ [Ab] ♪
♪ Fell in [Eb] love with a small town [Bb] woman, married up and settled [Eb] in ♪
[Ab] ♪ Natural [Eb] way of life if you're [Bb] lucky for a small town southern [Eb] man ♪
_ [D] Okay, that's our verse, and then the chorus.
We have one more verse [Ab] before the chorus in the song,
but I'm just gonna go straight to the chorus.
So here's the chorus for you.
♪ And he bowed [Eb] his head to Jesus and [Ab] he stood for [Eb] Uncle Sam ♪
♪ [Ab] And he only loved [Eb] one woman, was [Bb] always proud of what he had ♪
[Ab] ♪ He said his greatest [Eb] contribution is [Ab] the ones you [Eb] leave behind _ [Ab] _ _
[Eb] ♪
♪ His gentle kindness for the small town southern man ♪ _
[G] _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Cm] So that's the verse and chorus,
and we'll go ahead and run through that whole thing
here in a little bit,
but [Ab] first I'm gonna show you this lead part.
Here's what it sounds like.
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[F] Okay, so we're just mostly here
on the [C] fourth and fifth strings.
So we're starting out just, you can either hammer on,
[G] or you can slide up [F] and back down,
but we're going second fret, fourth fret,
second fret open.
_ Then we're hammering on the fifth string,
[Eb] and then open fourth string,
_ [G] _
_ [Cm] _ then open again, [Abm] and then pulling off on the fifth string,
[Bb] and then back to the fourth string. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [G] _ _ [Cm] _ _
[Eb] And then the last time we're going,
[G] _ _ doing the hammer on, [F] pull off, and going back.
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So here's what that sounds [Em] like
if we do a little bit of strumming with it.
[G] _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ [Cm] _ _ _ [G] _ [C] _ _ _
[G] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
[Ab] Okay, so that's our intro.
Let's go ahead and play along with me here, guys.
Let's run through the intro, verse, and [Em] chorus.
I'll do the lead part to the [Ab] intro.
If you wanna strum along, you can strum along.
If you wanna do the lead part as well, you can do that.
But go [G] ahead and play through this with me.
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[Eb] _ _ _ _ [Ab] ♪ The [Eb] middle son of a farmer [Bb] and a small town son ♪
[Eb] _ _ [Ab] ♪ Like his [Eb] daddy's daddy before [Bb] he was born ♪
♪ He came off the land ♪
_ [Ab] ♪ Fell in [Eb] love with a small town woman [Bb] ♪
♪ Married up and [Eb] settled down _ [Ab] ♪
♪ That's your [Eb] way of life if you're [Bb] lucky ♪
♪ For the small town southern [Eb] man ♪
_ _ [Ab] ♪ They [Eb] came for pretty [Bb] dollars ♪
♪ For the small town southern [Eb] man ♪
[Ab] ♪ And a few [Eb] years later came another [Bb] ♪
_ _ [Ab] ♪ Seven [Eb] people living all [Bb] together in a house built his [Eb] own ♪
[Ab] ♪ With a [Eb] word of love and understanding ♪
♪ For the small town southern man _ ♪
♪ And he bowed his head to Jesus ♪
♪ [Ab] And he stood for [Eb] Uncle Sam ♪
♪ [Ab] And he only [Eb] loved one woman ♪
♪ Was [Bb] always proud of what he had ♪
♪ [Ab] He said his greatest [Eb] contribution ♪
♪ [Ab] Is the ones you [Eb] leave behind ♪
[Ab] ♪ He's [Eb] always been kind [Bb] to the small town southern man ♪
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