Daddys Cup chords by Drive-by Truckers

Chords with lyrics

Key: E MajorE

♫ Intro:

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♫ Verse 1:
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Well before I could walk
I
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had a wrench in my hand
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I was my Mama's little angel and my Daddy's second chance
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He went end over end the first year he went pro
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And he lost part of his
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eyesight and he couldn't race
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no more

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But he never lost his touch
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when he got under a hood
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He knew how to make them run and he knew one day he would See his name in victory lane
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and engraved on that cup
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Just like all them other
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crazy fools with racing in
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their blood


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He would put me on his lap when he'd drive and I'd take the wheel
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He'd say What do you think
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about that son? How does she
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feel?
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You just wait till them
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little legs get long enough to reach the gas
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Once you put her on the floor
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one time there ain't no
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turning back

♫ Verse 2:
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Every Saturday, he'd take me
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out to the garage
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He'd take an empty bucket and fill it full of engine parts He's sit me down and pour em
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out in front of me on the floor
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I'd have to tell him what
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each one was and what each
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one was for

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We'd jump in his old car and
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go down to the race that night
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He'd tell me what each driver was doing wrong and what each one did right

He could always pick the
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winner before they ever took a curve
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43 might have the car but #3
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has got the nerve


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But before I turned 18 Daddy said Now pretty soon
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You'll be old enough to race
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but I'm gonna leave it up to
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you

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I taught you all about it
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taught you everything I know
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You gotta have a car to do it
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and you gotta work and buy
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your own


♫ Instrumental:
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♫ Verse 3:
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The first one I bought was a
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Mustang #2
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Nobody kept'em any longer than they kept a pair of shoes

They started showing up at
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every used car lot in town
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A majorA V-8 on a go-cart, easy
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terms, no money down

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Me and Daddy and my uncle
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took her home and we tore her down
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Checked her out real good, cleaned her up and bored her out

Took out all the seats
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pulled the carpet off the floor
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Knocked out all the glass and
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welded up the doors


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Well the first time that I raced my qualifying was a shame
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I started out way in the back
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and came back about the same
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I pulled her in the pit
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couldn't look my Daddy in the eye
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He said If you quit now son
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it's gonna haunt you all your
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life


♫ Verse 4:
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See it ain't about the money
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or even being #1
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You gotta know when it's all over you did the best you could've done

And knowing that it's in you
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and you never let it out
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Is worse than blowing any
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engine or any wreck you'll
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ever have

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Since then I've wrecked a
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bunch of cars and I've broke a bunch of bones
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It's anybody's race out there and I've learned to run my own

I'd shove em in the wall and
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I'd hit em from behind
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I'd let them know that I was
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there
I'd let em know that
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track was mine


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It's been several years now since my Daddy passed away
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But his picture's on my dash
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every time I go to race
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I lost more than I won but I
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ain't gonna give up
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Till they put me in the
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ground or Daddy's name's on
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that cup


♫ Outro:
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