Chords for The Beautiful South - This Old Skin

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[G] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ It [D] was 96 [F#m] in South Carolina, [G] that's the place not goddamn [A] here _ _
[D] Sitting on the porch [F#m] at a Bobby's place [G] just tugging on a lukewarm [A] beer
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[G] And there are a lot of people [E] like an old sidewinder [G] just an inch or so above [E] the mud _
[Bm] The first to find out [G] that it's rain _
[D] It's the last to find out it's [A] a flood _ _ _
_ _ And [D] if he's paradise valley in [F#m] a bottom
_ [G] Not far from where the West [A] was one
_ I [D] am the only black face [F#m] in a whole damn place [G] just a raisin in a blazing [A] sun
_ [G] And there I am [Em] like that old sidewinder [G] just wishing that her eggs [Em] ain't hatched
_ [Bm] Then the chain I wear [G] hasn't wishing for the day [D] when it came with a ball [A] attached
_ _ _ So I'm gonna [D] _ move _ [F#m] _ right out of [G] this town
_ _ [A] _ _ [B] This [D] old skin [F#m] _ start to wear [G] me down
_ [A] _ _ [F#m] This [G] old skin
She was sitting in the very [Em] same spot that it was
[D] San Francisco dock of [Bm] the bay _
[C] In the very same spot [Em] that the ship's water
[A] Now there's nothing but the mud and clay
I'm gonna [D] move _ [F#m] right _ out of [G] this town
_ [A] _ _ [B] This [D] _ old skin [F#m] _ is wearing [G] me down
_ [A] _ _ [F#m] This [D] old _ [F#m] skin _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
[D] _ Outside Orlando [F#m] and the sunshine state is [G] just up itself another [A] degree
[B] I [D] am the very last orange [F#m] of the whole year's crop
[G] Hanging daily to the branch of [A] the tree _
[G] And the wind in the spring [E] couldn't do anything
[G] So I'm burning in the sun [Em] of the South _ _
[Bm] That old sidewinder [G] in the dust below
I'm [D] just waiting till it opens [A] its mouth _
_ So I'm [D] gonna _ move [F#m] _ _ right out [G] of this town _
[A] _ _ This [D] old skin [F#m] _ finally touches [G] the ground _
[A] _ _ [F#m] _ [G] She was sitting in the very [Em] same spot that it was
[D] San Francisco dock [Bm] of the bay
[C] In the very same spot [Em] that the ship's water
[A] Now there's nothing but the mud and clay
And I'm [D] gonna move _
[F#m] _ right out [G] of this town _
[A] _ _ This [D] old skin [F#m] finally _ [G] touches the ground _ _
[F#m] _ _ This [D] old skin
[F#m] _ _ This [G] old skin _
[A] _ _ This [D] old _ _
_ [F#m] skin
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[A] _ _ This [D] old skin _
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