Randy Newman – Rednecks (Guitar Live)
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Chords
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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---------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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