Key: D
Introduction:
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Born in the back of a shack down in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
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They tried to make him bad he looked up
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and said 'I'm no loser'
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'Cause for nickels and dimes he could play his guitar he could rhyme
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He could do it every time, in Denver, or wherever
He left his happy home, his mamma she sat lowing, she was crying