Chords
Longhaired Redneck

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