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Eb _ _ _ _
Ab _ _ .
Bb _ _
Eb _ _ _ _ _ _ .
Bb _ _
Eb _ _ Katie's sitting
Ab on a low
Bb front
Eb porch, watching the chickens peck
Ab the
Bb ground.
_
Eb _ There ain't a whole
Ab lot going
Bb on tonight
Cm _ in
Bb this one
Ab-horse town.
Bb _
Eb _ _ Over yonder,
Ab coming up the
Bb Eb road in a beat-up Chevy
Ab.
Bb truck,.
_
Eb _ her boyfriend Tom
Ab is laying
Bb on the
Cm horn, splashing
Bb through the mud
Ab and the muck.
_
Bb _
Eb Her daddy says,
Ab he
Bb ain't worth a lick,
Eb when it comes to brains
Ab he got the short
Bb end of the stick.
Eb _ But Katie's young
Ab and man she just
Bb don't
Eb care,
Gm she'd follow
Ab Tommy
Bb anywhere.
Eb She's in love with the boy,
Ab _ _ .
_
Bb Eb she's in love with the
Ab boy, _ .
Bb _
Eb she's in love with the
Ab boy.
_ .
Bb _ _
Fm And even if they have to
Bb run away, _
Ab she's gonna marry
Bb that boy
Eb someday.
_ _
Ab _ _
Bb _ _
Eb _ _ .
_ _
Abm _ _
Bb _ _
Eb _ .
Katie and Tommy
Ab have to
Bb drive in a
Eb movie, parking in the very
Ab last row.
Bb _ _
Eb _ .
They're too busy
Ab holding on to
Bb one
Cm another, to
Bb even care
Ab about the show.
_
Eb _ _ .
Later on,
Ab outside the tapes
Bb he
Eb brings, Tom has slipped something
Ab on her home.
Bb _ _
Eb He says, my high school
Ab ain't gonna have
Bb to
Cm do, till
Bb I can buy a
Ab wedding band.
Bb _
Eb Her daddy says,
Ab he ain't
Bb worth a lick,
Eb when it comes to brains he
Ab got the short end
Bb of the stick.
Eb But Katie's young and
Ab man she just
Bb don't care,
Eb _ .
she'd follow
Ab Tommy
Bb anywhere.
Eb She's in love with the
Ab boy, _
Bb _
Eb she's in love with the
Ab boy, _
Bb _
Eb she's in love with the
Ab boy.
_
Bb _
Fm And even
Ab if they have to
Bb run away, she's
Ab gonna marry
Bb that boy
Eb someday.
_ _ _
Ab _ _ .
Bb _ _
Eb _ _ _ _
Ab _ _ .
Bb _ _
Fm _ _ _ _
Eb _ _ .
_ _ _ _ _ _ Her daddy's waiting
Ab up till half
Bb past twelve,
Eb when they come sneaking
Ab up the wall.
Bb _ _
Eb He says, young lady
Ab get on up to
Bb your
Cm room, while
Bb me and Junior
Ab have a talk.
_
Bb _
Eb _ .
Mama breaks in
Ab and says, don't
Bb lose your
Eb temper, it wasn't very
Ab long
Bb ago.
_ _
Eb You yourself was
Ab just a hazy,
Bb plowed
C boy, who
Bb didn't have a
Ab road to hold.
_
Eb _ My daddy said,
Ab you wasn't
Bb worth a
Eb lick, when it came to brains you got
Ab the short end
Bb of the stick.
Eb But he was wrong and
Ab honey you
Bb are too.
Eb Katie looks at Tommy, like I still don't get you.
She's in love with the boy,
Ab _ _
Bb _
Eb she's in love with the
Ab boy, _
Bb _
Eb she's in love with the boy.
Ab _ _
Bb _
Fm What's meant to be
Ab will always
Bb find a way.
_
Eb She's in love with the boy,
Ab _ _
Bb _
Eb she's in love with the
Ab boy, _
Bb _
Eb she's in love with the
Ab boy.
_
Bb _
Fm What's meant to be
Ab will always
Bb find a way.
_
Ab She's gonna marry
Bb that boy.
Eb _ _ _ _ _
Ab _ _