Never Gonna Change chords by Drive-by Truckers

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Intro:
|Dm   | C  G |
|Dm   | C  G |
|Dm   | C  G |
|Dm   | C  G |

Verse 1:
Dm                         C            G      Dm                      Bb    G
Let this be a lesson to you girl: Don't come around where you know you don't belong.
         Dm                      C             G               Dm              Bb          G
They're riding on the avenue and probably coming after you and they all look mean and strong.
Dm                      C   G Dm                  Bb       G
Mean and strong like liquor. Mean and strong like fear.
Dm                         C         G     Dm                      Bb        G
Strong like the people from South Alabama and mean like the people from here.
           G  C            Bb
Take it from me…       We ain't never gonna change.

Break:
|Dm   | C  G |
|Dm   | Bb C |
|Dm   | C  G |
|Dm   | Bb C |

Verse 2:
Dm                         C            G      Dm                      Bb    C
Daddy used to empty out his shotgun shells and fill 'em full of black-eyed peas.
     Dm              C             G               Dm         Bb          C
He'd aim real low and tear out your ankles or rip right through your knees.
       Dm                      C   G            Dm                       Bb       C
There ain't much traffic on the highway. There ain't much traffic on the lake.
Dm  C         G     Dm                      Bb        C
The ATF and the ABI got everything they could take.
G            C      Bb                     Bb
Take it from me… They didn't take it from me.

Chorus:
         Dm                C  G
We ain't never gonna change.
        Dm                C  G
We ain't doin' nothin' wrong.
         Dm                  C  G
We ain't never gonna change
             Dm                   C  G
so shut your mouth and play along.

Verse 3:
Dm                         C            G      Dm                      Bb    G
I thought about going in the army. I thought about going overseas.
Dm                               C             G               Dm         Bb          G
I wouldn't have trouble with a piss test; only problem is my bad left knee.
Dm                      C   G           Dm                       Bb       G
My brother got picked up at Parker's,  got him a ride in a new Crown Vic.
Dm                         C         G     Dm                      Bb        G
They said that he was movin' on a federal level but they couldn't really make it stick.
             Bb   C      G
Take it from me…

Chorus:
         Dm                C  G
We ain't never gonna change.
        Dm                C  G
We ain't doin' nothin' wrong.
         Dm                  C  G
We ain't never gonna change
             Dm                   C  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
but there ain't much difference in the man I wanna be and the man I really am.

[Outro
         Dm                C  G
We ain't never gonna change.
        Dm                C  G
We ain't doin' nothin' wrong.
         Dm                  C  G
We ain't never gonna change
             Dm                   C  G
so shut your mouth and play along.

Chorus:
         Dm                C  G
We ain't never gonna change.
         Dm                C  G
We ain't never gonna change.
         Dm                C  G
We ain't never gonna change.
         Dm                C  G
We ain't never gonna change.

Outro:
|Dm   | C  G |
|Dm   | C  G |
|Dm   | C  G |
|Dm   | C  G |