Key: G
Introduction:
C D
Country deejays knows that
G
I'm an outlaw
G
They'd never come
C
To see me in this dive
C
Where bikers stare at cowboys
G G/F# Em
Who are laughing at the hippies
A7
Who are praying they'll get
D D7
Outta here alive
C D
The loud mouth in the corner's
G
Gettin' to me
G C
Talking 'bout my earrings and my hair
C
I guess he ain't read the signs
G G/F# Em
That say I been to prison
A7
Someone ought to warn him
D D7
'Fore I knock him off his chair
C
'Cause my long hair just can't
D G
Cover up my red neck
C
I've won every fight, I've ever fought
C
Hey, I don't need some turkey
G G/F# Em
Telling me that I ain't country
A7
And sayin' I ain't worth the damned ol'
D D7+ D7
Ticket that he bought
G
'Cause I can sing
G7 C
All them songs about Texas
D
And I still do
D7 G
All the sad ones that I know
G
They tell me
G7 C
I look like Merle Haggard
A7
And sound a lot like
D D7
David Allen Coe
C D
And the bar maid in the last town
G
That we played in
C
Knew the words to every song I'd wrote
G
She said, Jimmy Rabbitt turned her on
G/F# Em
To my last album
A7 D
Just about the time the jukebox broke
C D
Yeah, Johnny Cash helped me
G
Get out of prison
C
Long before Rodriguez stole that goat
C
I've been the Rhinestone Cowboy
G G/F# Em
For so long, I can't remember
A7
And I can do you every song
D D7+ D7
Hank Williams ever wrote
G
And I can sing
G7 C
All them songs about Texas
D
And I still do
D7 G
All the sad ones that I know
G
They tell me
G7 C
I look like Merle Haggard
A7
And sound a lot like
D D7
David Allen Coe
C D
But the country deejays, all think
G
I'm an outlaw
G
And they'd never come
C
To see me in this dive
C
Where bikers stare at cowboys
G G/F# Em
Who are laughing at the hippies
A7
Who are praying they'll get
D
Outta here alive