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C G C
It was all that I could do to keep from cryin'
F C
Sometimes it seems so useless to remain
F C
You don't have to call
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D G
(chorus)Beads or tails, what will it be?
A G D
Take your choice, him or me.
G
Beads or tails, you'll have to choose
A
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G C
I've done some ramblin' down in Mississippi
G D
I've done some time in Tennessee
G C
I served my sentence in a Fender twin amplifier
G
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A E
Seems like it's raining harder today
F#m
The rain must've known I was comin' this way
D A
It ain't easy living on the run
If I pick up my step and pull my belt dow
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Intro: G
Vs.1
C D G
Country Dj's knows that I'm an outlaw.
G C
They'd never come to see me in this dive.
C G D/F# Em
Whe
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Lost
written by David Allan Coe
performed by David Allan Coe, from the album Compass Point
D
(Intro) She's just a tear I used to cry
G
Long before we said goodbye
A7
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G
Quitting work early, Jimmy went home,
C G
But he never knocked on the door.
C G
Catching his wife in another man's arms,
A D
Acting like some stupid whore.
G
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Pick 'Em, Lick 'Em, Stick 'Em
by David Allan Coe
From the album Nothing Sacred
D G D
I was 15 goin' on 20 when I met up with this old man
G D
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A D E A
Judy, I feel weary now, older than a man of 33
D E A
The gates of Bell just opened, after 20 years the warden says I'
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D A7 D
River, you heard my first cry as a baby
G A D
And, like my Mom, you sang me lullabies
G A
You knew my fishing pole
D
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Intro: A# F c, repeated twice.
C D#
I was thumbin' back from Montgomery
D#
with a guitar on my back
F C
When a stranger pulled up beside me in an antique Cadi
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C G
It was all that I could do
C
to keep from cryin'
F C
sometimes it seems so useless to remain
F C
You don't have to call me darlin', darlin'
