Chords for Southern Culture On The Skids Australian TV 1998

isn't quite like other gigs.
[C] The music, a mix of blues, rock and country, is familiar but fresh.
Their novel way with food is perhaps not so familiar, nor quite as fresh.
_ [D] _ _ Well, you [Am] know, we got a clause in our contract now, no chicken, no show.
[C] _ _ Because we got tired of fetching chicken at about 11 30 at night, like in really bad
neighborhoods and stuff.
We had a few guns pulled [C#] on us at nights.
_ _ [G] But [C] the chicken,
man, we've tried to do shows without [E] the chicken, but the people [D] just want chicken.
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_ _ _ [F#] _ _ [C] I mean, there's [D] hardly any bands that have a sense of humor anymore.
They take themselves
so seriously that [Am] it's actually [F#] kind of nice if you have a sense of humor, you [C] kind of,
you're a step above the rest of the, you know, [C] or you know what I mean?
At least to me.
But all
all old rock and roll had tons of humor in it, you know, everything from the Coasters to Louis
Jordan, all kinds of stuff like that.
And we're just, you know, kind of, [C#] I guess, _ _ [F#m] prolonging
that tradition or whatever.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ With song titles like Carve That Possum, [C#] Banana Pudding, and Daddy
Was a Preacher, Mama Was a Go-Go Girl, the last accusation you could make of the band is that
they take themselves too seriously.
[F#] Everywhere we go, [B] there's a good [G#] reaction.
People do react
[C#] differently.
Like in Germany, _ [B] you know, they'll be digging it and loving it and won't leave,
but they'll just kind of _ stand there with their black leather jackets and grunt a lot.
But they
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[F#] how did [B] your musical sound [E] evolve?
And where do you get your inspiration from for
[Em] that sort of?
Well, living in the woods was really good for it.
Growing up in North Carolina was good
for [N] it.
Having crazy relatives is good for it.
You know what I mean?
We all grew up in towns where
the radio was, _ _ it was all AM radio.
And back then, AM would play a country, in a small southern town,
they would play a country song, an R&B song, a rock and roll song, and it was all the same.
Because half the town's white, half the town's black.
_ So yeah, one station kind of have to bounce
around the town.
And that's kind of like what our music is too.
It's kind of like a, I always say it
was kind of like a plate lunch, you know what I mean?
Like a southern plate lunch, because everything's
been cooking a long time, but once you throw it on the plate, it all kind of runs together.
And
you know, you can taste certain things, but it kind of has its own unique taste.
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Now you tour and play like 200, [D] 250 gigs a [Dm] year.
How come you're on the [D] road so much?
Aren't you
exhausted? _
_ _ I'm tired of myself. _
[G#] You _ _ _ [C] just tend to run out of [G#m] money after a while, so you have to go
back on the [G#] road. _
[C#] _ _ [D] _ _ [D#] Yeah, it's fun to be on the road.
And the most exciting things that ever
happened [B] to you on the road.
I mean, being home is pretty [Cm] boring, and [G#] all you do is get drunk or
cause [C] trouble. _ _ _
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Some of that trouble brewed last year, leading to a parting of the ways with their
record label Geffen.
But Geffen may regret the split.
With a couple of southern culture on the
skids songs on the soundtrack for the film Padita Durango, and successful singles like House of
Bamboo, the band may soon have to change their name to southern culture hit Pay Dirt.
Can you
tell me a little bit about how you came to record that?
It was in my mom's record collection.
_ All those [Am] hipsters should know that.
_ _ It's an old Earl Grant song.
I just really liked it.
And Rick just walked around the house for two days going, House of Bamboo.
Let's just learn the song so that you'll get sick of it.
Quit saying that.
_ _ And plus it's a song about a coffee house, so he'd be drinking coffee all day long,
which would just fuel the [F] fire to say it over and over. _
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