Muscadine Bloodline – Earle Byrd From Mexia (Guitar)

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As recorded by Muscadine Bloodline (2024 release) [Intro] G [Verse 1]
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You know ol Earle Byrd down round Mexia

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Friscos the closest town

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Take a ride off the black top onto the chirt rock

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Take ya right by his house

         C
He got a cur dog chained to a dog wood

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And a mule that's meaner than shit

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He's got him a champion fighting rooster

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That Chickens the pride of the Uriah pit

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Served his country in Korea

           C
Served his time up in a cell
[Chorus]
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For cooking up good homemade corn liquor

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The Kind that make a man go blind

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Kind that make a poor man richer

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When the folks vote the county dry

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Kind that'll get ya there quicker

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Put some slack back in ya jaw
N.C. I'm talkin' that good homemade corn liquor Earl
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Byrd been brewin since the crack of dawn
[Verse 2]
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Well now ol' Earle Byrd is an outlaw

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Sutton of the south

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Was the last of a breed didn't brag didn't need you to run off and run ya mouth

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Well now one time the grape vine wind and wind

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Through the hollers up in Perdue Hill

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Well then follow the smoke stack way off the two track

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Well then follow the smoke stack way off the two track
And that's where they found the still
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Did a ten year stint in Atmore prison farming in the fields
[Chorus]
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For cooking up good homemade corn liquor

G
The Kind that make a man go blind

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Kind that make a poor man richer

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When the folks vote the county dry

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Kind that'll get ya there quicker

G
Put some slack back in ya jaw
N.C. I'm talkin' that good homemade corn liquor Earl
                           G
Byrd been brewin since the crack of dawn
[Harmonica Solo] G [Guitar Solo] G F C F G F D G [Verse 3]
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Well now ol' Earle Byrd is 90 something sittin' on the porch

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Ssippin' Nehi nawin' on a sugar cane shoe

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Ride out to the house

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And he'll tell ya all about all the rot gut rye that he used to brew

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He's a mountain of a man from Monroe an Lord knows

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He don't deny nothing of the preminission

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Good ol boys from south Alabama make a livin during prohibition
[Chorus]
           G
Cooking up good homemade corn liquor

G
The kind that make a man go blind

G
Kind that make a poor man richer

G
When the folks vote the county dry

G
Kind that'll get ya there quicker

G
Put some slack back in ya jaw
N.C. I'm talkin that good homemade corn liquor Earle N.C. Byrd been brewin since the crack of dawn
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Till the crack of dawn

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Till the crack of dawn
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