Country boy
D - G - C - D (2x)
D
1. When
I was born as I recall
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the
preacher didn't hold out any hope at all.
D
He looked at me all pink and skin,
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D
thought
he'd better dip me in the bath again.
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D
2. I scuffed my shins on bigger things,
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people throwin' rocks at the angel's wings.
D
But through it all I stood tall,
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even
when my back was up against the wall.
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+ The devil's daughter keeps a
calling out my name,
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I so sincerely want to cross the
road and play the ga.....me.
D - G C
D
Raise your hands, jump for joy,
let's hear it for the country boy !
D -
G C D
Raise your hands, jump for joy,
let's hear it for the country boy !
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D
2. So I grow'd up, became a man,
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I took my daddy's teachings all
across the land.
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The journey's long, but I must be strong,
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and try
to tell the difference 'tween right and wrong.
Bm
G D
+ The devil's daughter keeps a
calling out my name,
Bm
C G - A
I've been to heaven now, I'm never gonna see things
the sa.....me.
D - G C D
Raise your hands, jump for joy,
let's hear it for the country boy !
D -
G C D
Raise your hands, jump for joy,
let's hear it for the country boy !
D - G
+ Let’s hear it from a
country boy !
(6x)
D -
G C D
Raise your hands, jump for joy,
let's hear it for the country boy !
D -
G C D
Raise your hands, jump for joy,
let's hear it for the country boy ....
(orig. = capo 1st) (Jimmy Nail)