Drive-By Truckers – Outfit (Guitar)

Half-Step Down (Eb-Ab-Db-Gb-Bb-Eb)
Key
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Versions (2)

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Chords

Tuned a step down.
C                       G                 D
You want to grow up to paint houses like me, a trailer in 

            C        G
my yard till you're 23 

   C                    G              D
You want to be old after 42 years, keep dropping the hammer 

   C            G
and grinding the gears 

       D                   C       G  D               C
Well, I used to go out in a Mustang, a 302 Mach One in 

    G
green 

D                    C          G          D
Me and your Mama made you in the back and I sold it to buy 

     C    G
her a ring 

     C                          G             C
And I learned not to say much of nothing and I figured you 

       G
already know 

      C                 Em                  D
but in case you don’t or maybe forgot, I’ll lay it out real 

        C
nice and slow 

     C                         G             C
Don’t call what your wearing an outfit. Don’t ever say your 

      G
car is broke 

     C                       Em         D
Don’t worry about losing your accent, a Southern Man tells 

      C     
better jokes 

    C                         G            C
Have fun but stay clear of the needle. Call home on your 

        G
sister’s birthday 

     C                            Em
Don’t tell them you’re bigger than Jesus, don’t give it 

    Am G EM 
away

 D                       C       G   D                       C    G
Six months in a St. Florian foundry, they call it Industrial Park. 

 D                                 C    G   D                      C       G
Then hospital maintenance and Tech School, just to memorize Frigidaire parts.

 C                         G      C                  G    
But I got to missing your Mama and I got to missing you too. 

 C                             Em            D                       C
So I went back to painting for my old man and I guess that’s what I’ll always do 

 C                             G            C                       G
So don’t try to change who you are boy, and don’t try to be who you ain’t. 

 C                             Em        D                            C
And don’t let me catch you in Kendale with a bucket of wealthy-man’s paint. 

 C                             G            C                         G
Don’t call what your wearing an outfit. Don’t ever say your car is broke. 

 C                             Em       D                              C
Don’t sing with a fake British accent. Don’t act like your family’s a joke. 

 C                              G          C                       G
Have fun, but stay clear of the needle, call home on your sister’s birthday.

      C                           Em                        Am G Em
Don’t tell them you’re bigger than Jesus, Don’t give it away. 

 Em                Am G Em    
Don’t give it away.