Chords
Bossier City

Key: G

Introduction:

   G                           C9         G 
Well Robbie's got a brand new girlfriend.
             G         D                   G 
She's got a scr i pt for pills.
             G               C9                       G 
These here man they're the good ones.
 G                                   C9   G 
Counting those ten dollar bills.
VERSE
           G                   C9           G 
What Mama don't know won't hurt her.
 G                               D           G 
That's what he'd always say.
           G                         C9     G 
He's going down to Bossier City.
             G                 D             G 
Gonna drink his cares away.
SOLO

 G  D  G 
VERSE
           G         C9       G 
He's got a thousand dollars.
               G                         D                 G 
That's more than the saw mills paying.
             G       C9   G 
Lucy she's at her mamas.
 G                                 C9   G 
But he'll lose it all today
VERSE
           G         C9       G 
He's got a thousand dollars.
               G                 D     G 
That's just some gasoline.
                             G     C9             G 
You know that boy well he can gamble.
 G                           C9  G 
Like you ain't never seen.
           G                   C9           G 
What Mama don't know won't hurt her.
 G                               D           G 
That's what he'd always say.
           G                         C9     G 
He's going down to Bossier City.
               G               D             G 
Gonna drink his cares away.
SOLO

 G  D  G 
VERSE
           G                       C9     G 
He's pulling down on that lever.
           G               D             G 
Like he's got cash to burn.
 G                   C9       G 
Barely too proud to beg.
                           G               D         G 
I guess that boy will never learn.
VERSE
           G                       C9     G 
He's driving back home on sunday.
 G                   D                 G 
Praying he don't get killed.
           G                             C9  G 
You know that Lucy's kinda crazy.
           G                 D             G 
When she ain't got her pills.
           G                   C9           G 
What Mama don't know won't hurt her.
 G                               D           G 
That's what he'd always say.
           G                         C9     G 
He's going down to Bossier City.
               G               D             G 
Gonna drink his cares away.
SOLO

           G                   C9           G 
What Mama don't know won't hurt her.
 G                               D           G 
That's what he'd always say.
           G                         C9     G 
He's going down to Bossier City.
               G               D             G 
Gonna drink his cares away.