Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)
Intro:
|DmDm | C majorC G+G |
|DmDm | C majorC G+G |
|DmDm | C majorC G+G |
|DmDm | C majorC G+G |
Verse 1:
DmDm C majorC G+G DmDm Bb majorBb G+G
Let this be a lesson to you girl: Don't come around where you know you don't belong.
DmDm C majorC G+G DmDm Bb majorBb G+G
They're riding on the avenue and probably coming after you and they all look mean and strong.
DmDm C majorC G+G DmDm Bb majorBb G+G
Mean and strong like liquor. Mean and strong like fear.
DmDm C majorC G+G DmDm Bb majorBb G+G
Strong like the people from South Alabama and mean like the people from here.
G+G C majorC Bb majorBb
Take it from me… We ain't never gonna change.
Break:
|DmDm | C majorC G+G |
|DmDm | Bb majorBb C majorC |
|DmDm | C majorC G+G |
|DmDm | Bb majorBb C majorC |
Verse 2:
DmDm C majorC G+G DmDm Bb majorBb C majorC
Daddy used to empty out his shotgun shells and fill 'em full of black-eyed peas.
DmDm C majorC G+G DmDm Bb majorBb C majorC
He'd aim real low and tear out your ankles or rip right through your knees.
DmDm C majorC G+G DmDm Bb majorBb C majorC
There ain't much traffic on the highway. There ain't much traffic on the lake.
DmDm C majorC G+G DmDm Bb majorBb C majorC
The ATF and the ABI got everything they could take.
G+G C majorC Bb majorBb Bb majorBb
Take it from me… They didn't take it from me.
Chorus:
DmDm C majorC G+G
We ain't never gonna change.
DmDm C majorC G+G
We ain't doin' nothin' wrong.
DmDm C majorC G+G
We ain't never gonna change
DmDm C majorC G+G
so shut your mouth and play along.
Verse 3:
DmDm C majorC G+G DmDm Bb majorBb G+G
I thought about going in the army. I thought about going overseas.
DmDm C majorC G+G DmDm Bb majorBb G+G
I wouldn't have trouble with a piss test; only problem is my bad left knee.
DmDm C majorC G+G DmDm Bb majorBb G+G
My brother got picked up at Parker's, got him a ride in a new Crown Vic.
DmDm C majorC G+G DmDm Bb majorBb G+G
They said that he was movin' on a federal level but they couldn't really make it stick.
Bb majorBb C majorC G+G
Take it from me…
Chorus:
DmDm C majorC G+G
We ain't never gonna change.
DmDm C majorC G+G
We ain't doin' nothin' wrong.
DmDm C majorC G+G
We ain't never gonna change
DmDm C majorC G+G
so shut your mouth and play along.
Bridge:
N.C.
You can throw me in the Colbert County jailhouse.
N.C.
You can throw me off the Wilson Dam
N.C. Bb majorBb
but there ain't much difference in the man I wanna be and the man I really am.
[Outro
DmDm C majorC G+G
We ain't never gonna change.
DmDm C majorC G+G
We ain't doin' nothin' wrong.
DmDm C majorC G+G
We ain't never gonna change
DmDm C majorC G+G
so shut your mouth and play along.
Chorus:
DmDm C majorC G+G
We ain't never gonna change.
DmDm C majorC G+G
We ain't never gonna change.
DmDm C majorC G+G
We ain't never gonna change.
DmDm C majorC G+G
We ain't never gonna change.
Outro:
|DmDm | C majorC G+G |
|DmDm | C majorC G+G |
|DmDm | C majorC G+G |
|DmDm | C majorC G+G |