Roots chords by Cooper Alan

• Difficulty: Beginner 👶

Tuning: Half-step down

Key: B

Intro:

C  F  G    C  F  G


Verse 1:
        C            F           G                 F
There’s some planted down in the dirt of every hometown
         C              F
Some you miss, some you know
                 G                F
The ones ya need most, most don’t show
         C                             F
It’s the thankless, the dangerous, sometimes we forget
        G                  F
We wouldn’t be standing if God hadn’t sent

Chorus:
    C                  F
The name on the badge, flashing blue lighters
G               F
Bunk in a mack, long haul drivers
C              F                  G    F
Combine ridin’ reasons we all got food
    C                     F
The first in the fire for no extra zeroes
G                   F
Front line fightin’ dog tag heroes
    C                           F                           G
The blood and the sweat for the rest of the red, white, and blue
            F                              C     F  G
There’s the tree you can see, then there’s roots


Verse 2:
F      C                F
Sunday preacher, Monday lineman
       G                        F
Set of gloves and scrubs on the nightshift
       C                             F
It’s a teacher with a whiteboard, teaching what to fight for
  G
Mamas raisin’ kids right
   F
So they end up like


Chorus:
    C                  F
The name on the badge, flashing blue lighters
G               F
Bunk in a mack, long haul drivers
C              F                  G    F
Combine ridin’ reasons we all got food
    C                     F
The first in the fire for no extra zeroes
G                   F
Front line fightin’ dog tag heroes
    C                           F                           G
The blood and the sweat for the rest of the red, white, and blue
            F                              Am
There’s the tree you can see, then there’s roots


Instrumental Break:
G  F  G


Bridge:
         Am                       G
When the sky falls down they keep showing up
F                   G
We owe it all to every last one
       C
Of the thankless, the dangerous, sometimes we forget
        G                  F
We wouldn’t be standing if God hadn’t sent


Chorus:
    C                  F
The name on the badge, flashing blue lighters
G               F
Bunk in a mack, long haul drivers
C              F                  G    F
Combine ridin’ reasons we all got food
    C                     F
The first in the fire for no extra zeroes
G                   F
Front line fightin’ dog tag heroes
    C                           F                           G
The blood and the sweat for the rest of the red, white, and blue
            F                              C     F  G
There’s the tree you can see, then there’s roots
            F                             C
There’s the tree you can see, then there's roots


Outro:
F  G  F  C
F  G  F  C
F  G  F  C