David Allan Coe – The Ride (Guitar)

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  Well, I was thumbin' from Montgomery

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  I had my guitar on my back

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  When a stranger stopped beside me in an antique Cadillac

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He was dressed like 1950, half-drunk and hollow-eyed

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He said "It's a long walk to Nashville, would you like a ride, son?"

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I sat down in the front seat

   C
He turned on the radio

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And them sad old songs comin' outta them speakers was solid country gold

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Then I noticed the stranger was ghost-white pale when he asked me for a light

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And I knew there was somethin' strange about this ride

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He said "Drifter, can you make folks cry when you play and sing?"

          A
"Have you paid your dues? Can you moan the blues?"

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"Can you bend them guitar strings?"

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He said "Boy, can you make folks feel what you feel inside?"

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"Cause if you're big star bound, let me warn ya it's a long hard ride"

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Then he cried just south of Nashville

       C
And he turned that car around

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He said "This is where you get off, boy, cause I'm goin' back to Alabam'

A
As I stepped out of that Cadillac

C
  I said "Mister, many thanks."

D
He said "You don't have to call me mister, mister"

 A
"The whole world called me Hank"

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He said "Drifter, can you make folks cry when you play and sing?"

          A
"Have you paid your dues? Can you moan the blues?"

         E
"Can you bend them guitar strings?"

         G                       D                  A
He said "Boy, can you make folks feel what you feel inside?"

                 G                      D                        A
"Cause if you're big star bound, let me warn ya it's a long hard ride"

         G                           D                     A
He said "Drifter, can you make folks cry when you play and sing?"

          A
"Have you paid your dues? Can you moan the blues?"

         E
"Can you bend them guitar strings?"

         G                       D                  A
He said "Boy, can you make folks feel what you feel inside?"

                 G                      D                        A
"Cause if you're big star bound, let me warn ya it's a long hard ride"

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"If you're big star bound, let me warn ya it's a long hard ride"