Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)
Difficulty: Novice
Intro:
D MajorD A augmentedA B minorBm G+G (Same chords and pattern repeat for the whole song)
Verse:
D MajorD A augmentedA
Driving down that old dirt road
B minorBm G+G
Past the chicken man and the rusted out store
D MajorD A augmentedA
Wore out tires & Bags of trash
B minorBm G+G
High on whisky, Low on cash
D MajorD A augmentedA
Tell your ma tell your pa
B minorBm G+G
Don’t you worry if I don’t call
D MajorD A augmentedA
I’m out in the woods past the cypress grove
B minorBm
when I’m coming back baby
G+G
I don’t know
Chorus:
D MajorD A augmentedA
I gotta bag of weed a case of beer
B minorBm
A augmentedA little George Dickel’s
G+G
Some American spirits
D MajorD A augmentedA
Spending the night out in the woods
B minorBm G+G D MajorD
Hope it might do me some good
Verse:
D MajorD A augmentedA
View Crest House has burned and gone
B minorBm G+G
The cows in the pasture have all gone home
D MajorD A augmentedA
Pond in the lowlands has done gone dry
B minorBm G+G
Blue sky days eternal nights
D MajorD A augmentedA
You hurt me good you hurt me hard
B minorBm G+G
I never thought you’d go that far
D MajorD A augmentedA
Love’s a lot like gasoline
B minorBm G+G
It might burn messy it might burn clean
D MajorD A augmentedA
Don’t you worry don’t you cry
B minorBm G+G
I aint no verge of suicide
D MajorD A augmentedA
Like an old snake shedding its skin
B minorBm G+G
Crawling out to crawl back in
D MajorD A augmentedA
This human race
B minorBm G+G
Searching for my sacred place
Chorus 2:
D MajorD A augmentedA
Spending the night out in the woods
Hoping it might de me some good
D MajorD A augmentedA
Yeah yeah yeah
B minorBm G+G
Do me some good
Solo:
Verse:
D MajorD A augmentedA
Everet don’t go out no more
B minorBm G+G
Except for maybe to the grocery store
D MajorD A augmentedA
Likes to sit around his house and paint
B minorBm G+G
Naked things and things your going to think
D MajorD A augmentedA
Young man Cory stole his car
B minorBm G+G
Trashed it to hell now its back in the yard
D MajorD A augmentedA
No remorse, aint no shame
B minorBm G+G
Stands as a stature to a young mans game
D MajorD A augmentedA
I aint pointing no fingers I can identify
B minorBm G+G
With a selfish man and his ability to lie
D MajorD A augmentedA
But the cold hard truth is like a hammer in the teeth
B minorBm G+G
Hurts like hell and don’t give you no peace
D MajorD A augmentedA
I’m out in the backwoods singing a song
B minorBm G+G
About a good man whose done gone wrong
D MajorD A augmentedA
Trying to rise above it all
B minorBm G+G
While the leaves in the trees are starting to fall
D MajorD A augmentedA
Making its way toward the cold hard freeze
B minorBm G+G
Aint it funny how this life can bring you to your knees.
Chorus 2:
D MajorD A augmentedA
I sing my song with a simple refrain
B minorBm G+G
While the cold wind it turn to rain
D MajorD A augmentedA
Red clay road turn to mud
B minorBm G+G
Cold brown liquor warms my blood
D MajorD A augmentedA
Icicles hanging from the old barbed wire
B minorBm G+G
Its to wet outside to start a fire
D MajorD A augmentedA
Spending the night in my pickup truck
B minorBm G+G
With the stereo and windows up
Chorus:
D MajorD A augmentedA
Spending the night out in the woods
B minorBm G+G
Hoping it might do me some good
D MajorD A augmentedA
Do me some good yeah yeah yeah