Key: C 🎸 Intro: | C | C | 🎸 Verse 1: C F C A man with forty acres plowed and planted G C Can't send no fourteen year old boy to no school F C The only thing I learned in the years I worked on my daddy's farm G C Was son, you better get them crops in when it turns cool
🎸 Verse 2: F C In the magazines I saw the pretty women G C I heard about the drinkin' and the bars F C If my daddy could've caught me, he'd a-killed me G C He said, "You might run, boy, but you ain't gonna get far" 🎸 Verse 3: F C I hit town, you might say that it hit me G C Next mornin' there were things I knew more about F C The woman who had taken me in she said, "Country boy, you're all right" G C The same way I turned her on, she turned me out 🎸 Verse 4: F C The first law I broke, right away they got me G C I helped them build the country roads for awhile F C They fed me two times a day and they knocked me down about four G C A For thirty days I didn't even crack a smile 🎸 Verse 5: D G D I met a nice girl and she said I was her baby A D She let me go and would never tell me why G D I learned what it means to be somebody's baby A D They let you lie in your bed by yourself and cry 🎸 Verse 6: D G D The miles were good but the mileage is turnin' my hair gray A D I've met some people that knew me and call me friend G D Ain't no sense wantin' my life to live over A D I'd find different ways to make those mistakes again 🎸 Outro: G D So let me say this I never tried to hurt anybody A D Though I guess there's a few, that I still couldn't look in the eye G D If I've got one wish I hope it rains at my funeral A D For once I'd like to be the only one dry
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