Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E) 🎸 Intro: Em G Em G 🎸 Verse 1: G Em Honey don't walk out I'm too drunk to follow G Em You know you won't feel this way tomorrow C D Well - maybe a little rough around the edges C D Inside a little hollow C D But I get faced with somethings sometimes C D So hard to swallow
🎸 Chorus: Em G Hey, hey, hey! I was born a rebel Em G Down in Dixie on a Sunday morning C D Yeah - with one foot in the grave C D And one foot on the pedal Em I was born a rebel G Born a rebel 🎸 Verse 2: G She picked me up in the morning Em And she payed all my tickets G Yeah she screamed in the car Em And left me in and out in the thicket C D Well - I never would've dreamed C D That her heart was so wicked C D But I keep coming back C D 'Cos it's so hard to kick it. 🎸 Chorus: Em G Hey, hey, hey! I was born a rebel Em G Down in Dixie on a Sunday morning C D Yeah - with one foot in the grave C D And one foot on the pedal Em I was born a rebel G I was born a rebel Guitar 🎸 Solo: C G C D 🎸 Verse 3: G Even before my father's fathers Em Called us all rebels G They burned our cornfields Em And left our cities level C D I can still feel the eyes C D Of those blue bellied devils C D Walking around tonight C D Through the concrete and the metal. 🎸 Chorus: Em G Hey, hey, hey! I was born a rebel Em G Down in Dixie on a Sunday morning C D Yeah - with one foot in the grave C D And one foot on the pedal Em I was born a rebel G Yeah, I was born a rebel Em G Hey, hey, hey! I was born a rebel Em G Down in Dixie on a Sunday morning C D Yeah - with one foot in the grave C D And one foot on the pedal Em I was born a rebel G Born a rebel 🎸 Outro: Em G Hey, hey, hey! Em G Em G Hey, hey, hey!
REBELS as recorded by Lucinda Williams, from the 2021 Album RUNNIN' DOWN A DREAM: A TRIBUTE TO TOM PETYY.