Smoke Rise chords by Zac Brown Band

Smoke Rise
by Clay Cook and Zac Brown
Album
CAPO 2ND FRET

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SHE WAS SOMETHING IN HER FORMATIVE YEARS

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SHE'D HIDE HER ACCENT IT WOULD REAPPEAR

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WHEN SHE WOULD BRAG ON WHAT DADDY BOUGHT LAST NIGHT

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ALL THE PRETTY GIRLS WERE IN THAT CROWD

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TO TEASE A HAND FULL OF POOR KIDS OUT LOUD

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AND EVEN THEN I KNEW IT WASN'T RIGHT





-CHORUS-

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SMOKE RISE, YOU WERE NEVER KIND

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GOOD NEWS I LEFT YOU ALL BEHIND

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SOME WHO HOPE THAT IT WOULD LAST

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SMOKE RISE I'M GLAD YOU'RE IN MY PAST


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MOST OF THE KIDS WERE BETTER THAN ME
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OR AT LEAST THEY THOUGHT SO AND IT WAS PLAIN TO SEE
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THE CHILDREN WERE CRUEL AND I DIDN'T HAVE A FIGHTING CHANCE
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I WASN'T A JOCK, I WASN'T A BRAIN
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WE WEREN'T WELL OFF AND MAMA COULDN'T EXPLAIN
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WHY NO ONE WOULD TAKE A POOR BOY TO THE DANCE

-CHORUS 2X-

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SPOILED RICH KIDS FIND IT HARD TO EMBRACE
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WHEN THEY BUS BLACK KIDS FROM ALL OVER THE PLACE
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THE COUNTY TRIED TO PROVE THEIR SCHOOLS WERE ALL THE SAME
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OL' JIM CROW TRIED TO INTEGRATE
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BUT IN THE SOUTH IT'S HARD TO RELATE
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WHEN GRANDPA USED THE "N" WORD WITH NO SHAME