George Jones – A Place In The Country (Guitar)

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For thirty some odd years he faced the grinder in the city

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Hustlin' day in day out just trying to survive

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He bought his wife the finer things

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And sent his kids to collage

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That always took what little bit he tried to put aside

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But through it all he had one thing

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That seemed to keep him going

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A dream that someday he could leave this city life behind

  C
I watched his hair turn thin and gray

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But his dream had never faded

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He told me all about it at least a thousand times

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He always wanted, a place out in the country

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Where the birds sing, in the morning

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And the grass is emerald green

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A place where, he could feel the morning sunshine

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And sit out in the evening

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Where the air is, fresh and clean

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It took lots of overtime to keep his wife up with the jonses

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And more to get his son out of his run-ins with the law

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The more it took the more he gave, never once complaining

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I don't know how he ever stood the pressure of it all

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I never thought he'd make it, but he finally left the city

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And now he's got that special little place to call his own

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Today I took a ride out in the country just to see him

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It wasn't hard to find because his name was on the stone

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He always wanted, a place out in the country

     G
Where the birds sing, in the morning

        A           D
And the grass is emerald green

  G                                    C
A place where, he could feel the morning sunshine

                   G
And sit out in the evening

          Am7    D         G
Where the air is, fresh and clean