Todd Snider – Doublewide Blues (Guitar Live)

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[Intro] D G A D [Verse 1]
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  V neck t-shirt with a mustard stain

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  Rollin' up a hose, outside in the rain

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  He's been my neighbor since probably '79

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  'Course he was in prison most of that time

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  Ever since then he just ain't been right

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  His old lady works days, and they fight most nights

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  Laid off and blown off, pissed off on booze

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        ...Doublewide blues
[Verse 2]
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  Metallica song blastin' from three trailers down

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  Some cut off t-shirt and nunchuck kids comin' 'round

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  Tonight they'll get drunk, try to get laid

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  They'll end up in a fight out behind the arcade

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  You know one of those little shits broke my window last spring

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  I told his Mama but she didn't do anything

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  She works two jobs the boy runs loose

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        ...Doublewide blues
[Chorus]
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  Doublewide 

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blues

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I got the blues

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Doublewide
[Verse 3]
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  My buddy Jimmy, his trailer's cool

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  He's got him a deck with one of them blue plastic pools

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  He works in construction he builds spec homes

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  His woman left him though so now he's down there alone

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  My friend Anita loves him he don't even know

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  So busy chasing my neighbor's wife Flo

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  Soap opera heaven, without all the clues

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        ...Doublewide blues
[Chorus]
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  Doublewide 

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blues

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I got the blues

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Doublewide
[Verse 4]
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  Wild Bill the manager, he keeps to himself

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  The war took his smile, like those pills took his health

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  He's too old to run around with the Klu Klux Klan anymore

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  He's still got a Confederate flag hangin' up outside his door

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  I sit here watchin' all this nothin' go on

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  Don't get out much since the Anna Nicole Smith trials come on

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  Sometimes it's nice havin' nothin' to lose

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        ....Doublewide blues
[Chorus]
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  Doublewide 

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blues

          A     
I got the blues

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Doublewide
[Chorus]
D           
  Doublewide 

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blues

          A     
I got the blues

       D
Doublewide
[Outro]
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One time I saw Jerry Jeff Walker play and he went like this at the end of one of his songs

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Ooooooo 

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hoo-hoo

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huh-hoo-hoo

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huh hoo-hoo    now that's country
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