Chords for Whitey Johnson: Memphis Women and Chicken

_ Oh yeah, look [D] Donny Fritz.
I want everybody to look around, turn around [Dm] and look at this man at the back [D] of the boat. _
_ That's Donny Fritz.
We [A] wrote this song together [D] _
about 30, 40 years ago. _ _ _
We tried to go bowling.
_ [A] _ [D] We couldn't write no song.
No, [A] no, no, no.
[D] We tried to go fishing.
Boo, boo.
We couldn't write no song. _
We tried to go to the movie. _ _ _
We finally had to write this song.
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Don't anybody feel like dancing on the deck?
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Come on y'all, come on y'all.
I bet we [Dm] could find some chicken dancing. _
_ [D] Now there's a chicken right [Dm] there. _ _
Headed into Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee.
That's the one place [D] in this world I can get something [A] good to eat.
[G] I'm hungry for some love and some fried chicken.
[Dm] It goes down greasy, [D] _ finger lickin'.
[A] I know just where to go.
There's a woman I know.
She [G] shakes it up right and lets it simmer.
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Memphis women and fried chicken. _
Memphis [Dm] women and chicken.
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Memphis women and fried chicken. _
Memphis women and chicken.
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Over on Union [Dm] there's a good [D] old gal.
She can smoke it big, fry some [G] fowl.
She got biscuits in her hood, long bread in her pan.
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I just buy to see her every [Dm] chance I can.
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Get you whipped when I turn the corner.
[G] My mouth starts to water.
_ I'm a goner [D] for the Memphis [Dm] women and [D] fried chicken. _
Memphis women and chicken.
_ _ [G] Yeah, I take my old guitar and I go down on beer. _
[D] Pour a little blue and get a [Dm] real good meal.
[G] I don't care if whiskey ever hits my lips.
[A] Long as I get a taste of [A] that barbecue [Dm]
ribs. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ [D] Let's hear it for this big, pretty [Dm] man right here,
Louis Eagles. _ _ _ _
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_ _ There's a woman up on the bluff,
making [D]
lemon, [Dm] making pies.
Got them [A] chocolate covered [D] fingers.
Got blueberry eyes.
[G] Got the light powdered sugar springing all in her hair.
[D] Her apple turnover is beyond compare.
[A] When it's hot, we eat it sticky.
You want something cool and sweet,
[G] she keeps her hand up cranking [Dm] on that homemade ice cream.
Memphis women and [A] fried chicken.
[D] _ Memphis [A] women and chicken.
[Dm] _ _ _ Memphis women and fried [D] chicken.
[A] Memphis women [Dm] and chicken. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ You know, I always say when I sing this silly little song,
I would take a leg or thigh _ or a breast,
_ another breast, _ _ neck meat, _ _ _ [A] _ or pulley [Dm] bone.
_ _ Did I say a leg?
_ Did I say a thigh? _
I'm just talking about the chicken, y'all. _ _ _
_ _ _ I'm just talking about the chicken, y'all.
_ _ _ _ _ _ Because I don't know where the pulley bone is located on a woman.
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_ _ Jimmy Hall said he knows.
I've been searching here and there and [Dm] everywhere.
Jimmy Hall said he would just chew on the skin.
I need some chicken skin, baby. _ _
_ _ Yeah, it ain't [F#] the Memphis [Dm] women and fried chicken. _
Memphis women and fried chicken. _
Memphis women and fried chicken. _ _
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_ _ _ [E] Thank you. _ _