Corey Smith – Keeping Up With The Joneses (Guitar)

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[Intro] | (C) (Am) | (F) (G) | x 2 [Verse]
C                            Am
Back in the day, back in the hills, we were busted,

       F                        G
made a livin' on the government dime

C                      Am                   F                   G
Mama wouldn't keep her job, and the alimony check never came on time

C                      Am                         F                      G
We were poor, I wasn't proud, only angry that our daddy couldn't send us more

C                        Am                        F                      G
Always embarrassed by my free lunch card, and food stamps for the grocery store
[Chorus]
                       C                               F
No keepin' up with the Joneses, no keepin' up with the Joneses

                         C                             G
When you're stuck on the bottom, you take what you can get
You say "ooh ooh, ooh ooh, ooh ooh" [Instrumental] | (C) (Am) | (F) (G) |
C                            Am
I went to school in hand-me- downs from my cousin,

      F                          G
baggy britches seemed to suit me well

C                 Am                             F                  G
Kinda thin, kinda loose in the middle, slouchin' in after the tardy bell

C                           Am
The teacher never called me trash, but I knew what

        F                           G
she was thinkin' when she looked at me

C                     Am                          F                    G
Born to be the under- class, growin' up to make a livin' on our chari- ty
[Chorus]
                       C                               F
No keepin' up with the Joneses, no keepin' up with the Joneses

                         C                             G
When you're stuck on the bottom, you take what you can get
You say "ooh ooh, ooh ooh, ooh ooh" [Instrumental] | (Am) | (Am) | (Dm) | (Dm) | (Am) | (Am) | (Dm) | (Dm) | (E) | (E) | (E) | (E) ---
C                          Am                           F                       G
Don't go lookin' down your nose at me neighbor, I could spot you from a yard a- way

C                            Am                         F                G
Don't try to judge me by the clothes I'm wearing or the cars in my drive way

C                        Am                       F                    G
I'm not rich but I'm not poor any longer, and I'm happy as a man could be

C                               Am                    F                     G
I'm proud to work, I'm proud to pay my taxes, and I'm grateful for my fami- ly
[Chorus]
                       C                               F
No keepin' up with the Joneses, no keepin' up with the Joneses

                          C                             G
When you come up from the bottom, you love whatever you got
You say "ooh ooh, ooh ooh, ooh ooh" [Tag]
C               Am                  F
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no

G                      C        Am
No keepin' up with the Joneses, no, no, no,

F           G       C
no, no, no, no, no, no

                     Am                    F
Ain't nothin', ain't no one, gonna hold me down, ain't nothin',

      G                     C
ain't no one, gonna hold me down

                     Am                    F
Ain't nothin', ain't no one, gonna hold me down, no, no, no, no, no,

G   C  Am F
oh, oh --- to fade