Intro:
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Verse 1:
A D A
Started work when I was ten
D A
Like my father did back then
D A D A Asus4 A
Driving Pittsburgh steel with hammers under flames
A D A
Fifty years up in that that mill
D A
I nearly killed myself and still
D A D Dsus4 D
I ain't got no dollar bill to my name
Verse 2:
A D A
Old Bill Hicks from nowhere's middle
D A
Taught me how to play the fiddle
D A D A Asus4 A
In East Ohio there ain't too much goin' on
A D A
But we like it that way here
D A
Not much changes every year
D A
Except the whiskey jug gets lower
D Dsus4 D
Till it's gone
G
At the same old screen door
D
That the dog scratched through
G
And the same old wood floor
D
Underneath my shoe
G
And the same old woman
D Bm
Making chicken every night
A A
Yeah, I guess did alright
Instrumental:
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Verse 3:
A D A
I was only seventeen
D A
Met a girl from Bowling Green
D A D A Asus4 A
It was the fieriest kind of winter fling
A D A
She got pregnant with my son
D A
I didn't have nowhere to run
D A D Dsus4 D
So I manned up and we married in the Spring
G
At the same old screen door
D
That the dog scratched through
G
And the same old wood floor
D
Underneath my shoe
G
And the same old woman
D Bm
Causin' trouble every night
A A
Yeah, I guess I did alright
Instrumental:
D A D A D A D A
G D G D
G Bm A A
Verse 4:
A D A
Started work when I was ten
D A
Like my father did back then
D A D A Asus4 A
Driving Pittsburgh steel with hammers under flames
A D A
Now I'm nearly sixty-eight
D A
Got a gal that sets me straight
D A
And I've got supper on my plate
D A
And I've got grandkids on the way
D A
And I owe money to the state
D A
Because my taxes all were late
D A
But if you think I care then you're
N.C.
D Dsus4 D
Just makin' noise
G
At the same old screen door
D
That the dog scratched through
G
And the same old wood floor
D
Underneath my shoe
G
And the same old woman
D Bm
Leavin' on that old porch light
A N.C.
Yeah, I guess I did alright
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