Steve Earle – Guitar Town (Guitar)

Drop D (D-A-D-G-B-E)
Key
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Chords

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Verse 1
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 Hey pretty baby are you ready for me? It's your good rockin' daddy down from Tennessee

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 I'm just outta Austin bound for San Antone with the radio blastin' and the Bird Dog on

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 Speed trap up ahead Selma town but no local yokel's gonna shut me down

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 Cause me and my boys got this rig unwound and we've come a thousand miles from the guitar town.

Interlude
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Verse 2
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 Nothin' ever happened round my home town and I ain't the kind to just hang around

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 I heard someone callin' my name one day so I followed that voice down the lost highway

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 Everybody told me you can't get far on $37 and a Jap guitar

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 Now I'm smokin into Texas with the hammer down and a rockin' little combo from the guitar town.
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 Hey pretty baby don't you know it ain't my fault

  C                            G
 Love to hear the steel belts hummin on the asphalt

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 Wake up in the middle of the night in a truck stop

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 Stumble in the restaurant, wonderin' why I don't stop
Verse 3
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 Well, I Gotta keep rockin while I still can got a two-pack habit and a motel tan

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 When my boots hit the boards I'm a brand new man put my back to the risers and make my stand

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 Hey pretty baby won't you hold me tight, I'm loadin' up and rollin' out of here tonight

D                                                  C                                   G*
 One of these days I'm gonna settle down and I'll take you back with me to the guitar town

Outro 
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