Intro: (Finger picking + strumming. Listen to the song for timing, it's rather fast paced): E e|---------0------------0:| e|------0---0---0---| B|------0-------0-0h2-2--:| B|-0----------------| G|-----1-----1-1---------:| G|1-----------------| D|-2--2------------------:| D|----2---2---2---2-| A|-2---------------------:| A|--2-2---2---2---2-| E|-0-0---0---------------:|(x3)E|--0-0---0---0---0-|(Strumming starts) Harmonica solo: A E B E A E E B E (Just like chorus) Verse 1: B E Deep down in the pines where the world has forgotten was still alive
B E Where the dirt roads twist along for no more than a mile A E Where the old man’s bar marks the center of town, and the county was never dry (E) B E Where the people will go, where the people will stay, Where they live until they die Verse 2: B E Well I knew a guy, his name was Ricky McCoy, An ass kicking bass fishing good ol’ boy B E And he can build a fire in 10 seconds flat, And he can ride a bull even longer than that A E Well he was only 15 when he dropped out of school, he said ‘I never been a genius, but I ain’t no fool (E) B E I know what I want, and I’mma get it in life, and I ain’t never gonna leave this place’ Chorus: A E He said ‘Man I ain’t never gonna leave this place, it’s where I’s (was) born, It’s where I’s raised B E And when I’m old on my dying bed I pray this is where I’m gonna lay my head A E I got me a town I can call my home, I got me a place I can call my own (E) B E I told you once and I’mma say it again: I ain’t never gonna leave this place’ Verse 3: B E Well Jessie was a young girl who grew up fast, she used to make her money lying down on her back B E Her daddy drank whiskey till he’s numb in the head, he’d beat her every night until the day he was dead A E Well she was just an only child with nowhere to go, in the same square mile where her seeds were sewn (E) B E ‘If there’s more to life, I guess I’ll never know cause I ain’t ever gonna leave this place’ Chorus: A E She said ‘Man I ain’t never gonna leave this place, it’s where I’s born, It’s where I’s raised B E And when I’m old on my dying bed I pray this is where I’m gonna lay my head A E I got me a town I can call my home, I got me a place I can call my own (E) B E I told you once and I’mma say it again: I ain’t never gonna leave this place’ Chorus: A E Man I ain’t never gonna leave this place, it’s where I’s born, It’s where I’s raised B E And when I’m old on my dying bed I pray this is where I’m gonna lay my head A E I got me a town I can call my home, I got me a place I can call my own (E) B E I told you once and I’mma say it again: I ain’t never gonna leave this place. END:
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