John Gorka – Scraping Dixie (Guitar)

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I heard he was scraping Dixie

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Looking for a job

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Looking for some work to get him by

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Steering clear of all the jails

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But he was skinny as a rail

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And his face would hardly move from day to day

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And his face would hardly move from day to day

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Don't you set your mouth on me

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Don't you set your mouth on me

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Don't you set your mouth and jump salty as the sea

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Even though she was the one, even so, I'll overcome

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Don't you set your mouth on me like I belong

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Don't you set your mouth on me like I belong

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He learned to cook short order

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He was a pour man in a bar

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And a bubble dancer, 'til his face got steamed

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And I know that he was bugged

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Dishing out them slops and slugs

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He said that grease got all up in his dreams

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He said that grease got all up in his dreams

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He said he'd be scraping Dixie

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Maybe Carolina way

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Looking for some cash to pass him through

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Oh well, what you gonna do

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We all have to line the flue

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But I'll fight until they put that tree suit on

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I'll be fighting 'til they put that tree suit on

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A VFW from somewhere

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With the thousand yard stare

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The VA kept him hanging on a line

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His disability was pending

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And I'd get these scribes that he was sending

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He'll be scraping by 'til the weather warms this way

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Scraping Dixie 'til the weather warms this way

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Don't you set your mouth on me

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Don't you set your mouth on me

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Don't you set your mouth on me like I belong

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Even though she was the one, even so, I'll overcome

          C        G        Am      G   F
Don't you set your mouth on me like I belong

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Don't you set your mouth on me like I belong