Key: D
Introduction: D
D
Girl, you've never known no one like me
D
Up there in your high society
G
They might tell you I'm no good
G D
Girl they need to understand, just who I am
A
I may be a real bad boy
C G D
But baby I'm a real good man
I may drink too much and play too loud
D
I might have a reckless streak
C G D ---these
At least a country mile wide
D
If you're gonna run with me
C G Bm ---these
It's gonna be a wild ride
Bm
When it comes to lovin' you
G D
I've got velvet hands
C5 B5 Bb5
I'll show you how a real bad boy
A D
Can be a real good man
I'll take all the good times I can get
C G F D
(The Ride)
D
I was thumbin' back from Montgomery
F
with a guitar on my back
G D
When a stranger pulled up beside me in an antique Cadillac.
F
Well, he was dressed like 1950, half drunk and hollow eyed
G D
Said its a long walk to Nashville, would you like a ride, son.
F
Well I climbed up in the front seat, and he turned on the radio
G D
and them sad old songs comin' outta them speakers was solid country gold.
F
Then I noticed the stranger was ghost white pale when he asked me for a light.
G D
And knew there was somethin' strange about this ride.
C G D
He said, Drifter can you make folks cry when you play and sang.
Have you pay your dues, can you moan the blues
A
Can you bend them guitar strangs.
C G D
He said, Boy, can you make folks feel what you feel inside,
C G D
Cause if your big star bound let me warn you its a long hard ride.
Well, he cried just south of Nashville, and he turned that car around.