Randy Newman – Rednecks (Guitar Live)

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--------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Written by: Randy Newman From: "Good Old Boys" (1974) Tabbed by: maguri Tuning: Standard ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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    G
    1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
e  |--3-------------|----------------|
B  |--------2---1---|----------------|
G 3h4---0---3---2-3-|4---------------|
D  |------0---0---4-|5---------------|
A  |----------------|----------------|
E  |3---------------|----------------|

Basic verse pattern
  G   D#7/D D7     G   D#7/D D7     G   D#7/D D7     G   D#7/D D7
  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
e|--3-------------|--3-------------|----------------|----------------|
B|--0-----2-1---0-|--0---2---1---0-|----------------|----------------|
G|--0-0---3-2---0-|--0-0-3---2---0-|----------------%----------------|
D|0---0---0---0---|0---0---0---0---|----------------|----------------|
A|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E|3-----3---------|3---------------|----------------|----------------|

  G       D/F#    Em E7sus4  Em     A7      C/D      G   D#7/D D7
  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
e|3-------2-------|----------------|0-------0-------|--3-------------|
B|0-------3-------|--3---3---0-----|2-------1-------|--0---2---1---0-|
G|0-------2-------|0-2---2---0-----|0-------0-------|--0-0-3---2---0-|
D|0-------0-------|2-2---2---2-----|2-------0-------|0---0---0---0---|
A|----------------|2-----------2---|0---------------|----------------|
E|3-------2-------|0-----------0---|----------------|3---------------|
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CHORDS
          E-A-D-G-B-e
Em7       0-2-2-0-3-3
E7sus4/B  x-2-0-2-3-3
A7/C#     x-4-2-2-2-3
C/D       x-x-0-0-1-0
Gsus4/D   x-x-0-0-1-3
Em11      0-2-2-2-3-3
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Intro]
             Em7        E7sus4/B    Em7
Last night I saw Lester Maddox on a TV show

          Em7       E7sus4/B Em7
With some smart-ass New York Jew

        Em7            E7sus4/B A7/C#
And the Jew laughed at Lester   Maddox

        C/D                 Gsus4/D       G
And the audience laughed at Lester Maddox too

         Em7      E7sus4/B       Em7
Well, he may be a fool, but he's our fool

                      Em7         E7sus4/B     A7/C#
If they think they're better than him, they're wrong

      Em7         Em7/D                C      A7/C#
So, I went to the park and I took some paper along

    C/D            Gsus4/D      G
And that's where I made this song (Link)
[Verse 1]
   G         D7         G      D7
We talk real funny down here

   G         D7          G         D7
We drink too much and we laugh too loud

      G           D/F#          Em   E7sus4  Em
We're too dumb to make it in no Northern town

          A7          C/D     G       D7
And we're keepin' the niggers down
[Verse 2]
       G         D7          G        D7
We got no-necked oilmen from Texas

G         D7              G      D7
 Good ol' boys from Tennessee

G        D/F#     Em Em7sus4  Em
 College men from L.S.U

G        D/F#       Em  Em7sus4  Em
 Went in dumb, come out dumb too

G                 D/F#           Em  E7sus4   Em
Hustlin' 'round Atlanta in their alligator shoes

        G           D/F#           Em E7sus4  Em
Gettin' drunk ev'ry weekend at the barbeques

            A7          C/D     G
And they're keepin' the niggers down
[Chorus]
      G  C            G  C
We're Rednecks, we're Rednecks

       G              D7         Em          C
And we don't know our ass from a hole in the ground

      G  D7           G  D7
We're Rednecks, we're Rednecks

              A7          C/D     G
And we're are keeping the niggers down
[Interlude] | G | % | % | A7 C/D | | G | G7/F | C G | A7 C/D G | [Verse 3]
         G        D7         G      D7
Now your Northern nigger's a Negro

G             D7           G    D7
 You see he's got his dignity

G                   D/F#        Em Em7sus4  Em
Down here we're too ignorant to realize

         A7                C/D         G  D7
That the North has set the nigger free

          G          D/F#             Em     Em11          Em
Yes, he's free to be put in a cage in Harlem in New York City

         G          D/F#                 Em    Em11         Em               [ G ]
And he's free to be put in a cage on the South side of Chicago and the West side

         G          D/F#             Em    Em11    Em
And he's free to be put in a cage in Hough in Cleveland

         G          D/F#             Em   Em11   Em
And he's free to be put in a cage in East St. Louis

         G          D/F#             Em          Em11       Em
And he's free to be put in a cage in Fillmore in San Francisco

         G          D/F#             Em Em11       Em
And he's free to be put in a cage in Roxbury in Boston

        G             D/F#    A7     C
They're gatherin' 'em up from miles around

A7          C/D     G
Keepin' the niggers down
[Chorus]
      G  C            G  C
We're Rednecks, we're Rednecks

       G              D7         Em          C
And we don't know our ass from a hole in the ground

      G  D7           G  D7
We're Rednecks, we're Rednecks

              A7          C/D     G      E7
And we're are keeping the niggers down
[Coda]
       A7          C/D     G
We are keepin' the niggers down