Key: D
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Boy gets a guitar and starts writing songs
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Bout whiskey and women and gettin too stoned
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Bm
He got all three at the first show he played
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Hometown says I don’t think Jesus done it that way
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Boy moves to city lives fast and goes hard
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Starts chasing the devil through honky tonk bars
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Bm
Ignoring the voices in his head that say
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I don’t think Jesus done it this way
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If I was him I’d say to hell with you
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Ain’t no helping you
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Find someone else to give Heaven to
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I’m telling you
Bm
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D/F#
Em
I'd shame me, I'd blame me, I'd make me pay for my mistakes
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Oh but I don’t think Jesus does it that way
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Boy’s all alone got no one to turn to
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He figures he’ll pray cause what else could he do
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Bm
He says I wish you would’ve woke me up an easier way
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But I don’t think Jesus does it that way
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If I was him I’d say to hell with you
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Ain’t no helping you
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Find someone else to give Heaven to
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I’m telling you
Bm
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D/F#
Em
I'd shame me, I'd blame me, I'd make me pay for my mistakes
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Oh but I don’t think Jesus does it that way
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World likes to rear back and throw a few stones
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So boy wants to throw a few stones of his own
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Bm
Lord knows I ain’t perfect and it ain’t my place
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But I don’t think Jesus done it that way
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Are y’all sure that Jesus done it that way?