Ballad Of A Southern Man chords by Whiskey Myers

Chords with lyrics

Standard Tuning
No Capo

(Verse 1)
G+G      D MajorD  C majorC   G+G
My first rifle was a .243,
    E minorEm   D MajorD    C majorC        G+G
Papa gave Daddy and Daddy gave to me,
   D MajorD           C majorC              E minorEm
and they taught me how to shoot with a steady hand,
          D MajorD           C majorC        G+G
I guess thats something you don't understand.


Now I grew up on a prison farm,

sneaking pulls of shine from a mason jar,

used to go fishing out pickle creek dam,

but I guess thats something you don't understand.

(Chorus)
   C majorC         G+G
Grandmas in the kitchen;
             D MajorD
Papas drunk past dawn;
    C majorC          G+G
We sit out on the front porch,
      E minorEm    D MajorD     C majorC
Just a pickin on the songs;
                G+G
and there's blood on the table,
   C majorC       G+G       D MajorD
cause we work for what we have;
     E minorEm      D MajorD    C majorC
and I was raised in this land,
     E minorEm      D MajorD       C majorC       G+G
I guess thats something you don't understand.

(Verse 2)

I still fly that southern flag,

whistling Dixieland enough to brag,

and I know all the words to simple man,

I guess thats something you don't understand.

I pledge my allegiance the original way,

say Merry Christmas not happy holidays,

I cant change my ways I know who I am,

I guess thats something you don't understand.

(Chorus)

(Bridge)

 Bb majorBb                  FF
They'll grind us up in a big machine;
   C majorC                 G+G
They'll feed us all on the same beliefs,
 Bb majorBb         FF      C majorC
Holy dollar and a credit card;
Bb majorBb            FF
but we got a way of doing things,
C majorC                 G+G
and no bankers gonna steal from me;
D MajorD
they wanna tear it all apart.

(Chorus)

(Verse 1)

My first rifle was a .243,

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