Cody Johnson – The Grandpa Song (Guitar)

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[Intro] D F G D F G D [Verse]
D
I wish that my Grandad was still here today au

       Bm
Cause' I'd love to here what he'd have to say .o|

      G                            Gm                    D
About three dollars and fifty-nine cents for a gallon of gas

        D
And I'd show him my wife and what I've done with my life

    Bm
And see if he liked all these songs that I write

G            Gm                        A        Asus4
Oh, I wish I knew what he would think about the        the fact that

          Bm                           F                        Bm        Bm/A             G           E7
If you're sixteen and pregnant, you'll get on tv, but yet we're laying off school teachers fast as can be

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Oh, I wish I knew what he'd think about us now
[Chorus]
                     C                 G
He'd probably ask me why the good ole' US of A

   D
Is so damn tied up in our foreign aid

         C                       G
When the American farmers got to sell all the cows

            A         Asus4
To keep the bank from taking the house.

       D             F#m/D        D7                       G     Em
I wish I could write him in on my ballot for the next president

               G                    A
Cause' there's men like John Wayne, Augustus McCrae,

         D                     G
The Lone Ranger and his Indian friend

               Em        A               D
But there will never be another man like him
[Verse]
D
I'm glad that I'm not some big Hollywood star

       Bm
Who thinks they have the right to go as far

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As b***hing about the hundred million dollars they make a year

               D
Cause' there's scars on my knuckles and sweat on my brow

       Bm
And I know that Grandpa, he'd sure be proud

   G                                           D
Of my little part that I've made to our family tree

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He'd probably ask me why people like Casey Anthony can get off scott free and why our taxes are still killing

G            E7
folks just like you and me

G                                         A
Oh I wish I knew what he'd think about us now.
[Chorus]
                     C                 G
He'd probably ask me why the good ole' US of A

   D
Is so damn tied up in our foreign aid

         C                       G
When the American farmers got to sell all the cows

            A         Asus4
To keep the bank from taking the house.

       D             F#m/D        D7                       G     Em
I wish I could write him in on my ballot for the next president

               G                    A
Cause' there's men like John Wayne, Augustus McCrae,

         D                     G
The Lone Ranger and his Indian friend

               Em        A               D
But there will never be another man like him