Keeping Up With The Joneses chords by Corey Smith

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
| (C majorC) (A minorAm) | (FF) (G+G) | x 2

Verse:
C majorC              A minorAm
Back in the day, back in the hills, we were busted,
    FF            G+G
made a livin' on the government dime
C majorC           A minorAm          FF          G+G
Mama wouldn't keep her job, and the alimony check never came on time
C majorC           A minorAm             FF           G+G
We were poor, I wasn't proud, only angry that our daddy couldn't send us more
C majorC            A minorAm            FF           G+G
Always embarrassed by my free lunch card, and food stamps for the grocery store

Chorus:
            C majorC                FF
No keepin' up with the Joneses, no keepin' up with the Joneses
             C majorC               G+G
When you're stuck on the bottom, you take what you can get
You say "ooh ooh, ooh ooh, ooh ooh"

Instrumental:
| (C majorC) (A minorAm) | (FF) (G+G) |

C majorC              A minorAm
I went to school in hand-me- downs from my cousin,
   FF             G+G
baggy britches seemed to suit me well
C majorC         A minorAm               FF         G+G
Kinda thin, kinda loose in the middle, slouchin' in after the tardy bell
C majorC              A minorAm
The teacher never called me trash, but I knew what
    FF              G+G
she was thinkin' when she looked at me
C majorC           A minorAm             FF          G+G
Born to be the under- class, growin' up to make a livin' on our chari- ty

Chorus:
            C majorC                FF
No keepin' up with the Joneses, no keepin' up with the Joneses
             C majorC               G+G
When you're stuck on the bottom, you take what you can get
You say "ooh ooh, ooh ooh, ooh ooh"

Instrumental:
| (A minorAm) | (A minorAm) | (DmDm) | (DmDm) | (A minorAm) | (A minorAm)
| (DmDm) | (DmDm) | (E MajorE) | (E MajorE) | (E MajorE) | (E MajorE) ---

C majorC             A minorAm              FF            G+G
Don't go lookin' down your nose at me neighbor, I could spot you from a yard a- way
C majorC              A minorAm             FF        G+G
Don't try to judge me by the clothes I'm wearing or the cars in my drive way
C majorC            A minorAm            FF          G+G
I'm not rich but I'm not poor any longer, and I'm happy as a man could be
C majorC                A minorAm          FF           G+G
I'm proud to work, I'm proud to pay my taxes, and I'm grateful for my fami- ly

Chorus:
            C majorC                FF
No keepin' up with the Joneses, no keepin' up with the Joneses
             C majorC               G+G
When you come up from the bottom, you love whatever you got
You say "ooh ooh, ooh ooh, ooh ooh"

Tag:
C majorC        A minorAm         FF
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
G+G           C majorC    A minorAm
No keepin' up with the Joneses, no, no, no,
FF      G+G    C majorC
no, no, no, no, no, no
           A minorAm          FF
Ain't nothin', ain't no one, gonna hold me down, ain't nothin',
   G+G           C majorC
ain't no one, gonna hold me down
           A minorAm          FF
Ain't nothin', ain't no one, gonna hold me down, no, no, no, no, no,
G+G  C majorC A minorAm FF
oh, oh --- to fade