Tom: B
Introdução:
E
Well that label man said son now can you sing a little bit more clear
E
Your voice might be too genuine and your song's a little too sincere
E A7 E
Can you sing a little more about outlaws and the way things used to be
E(ºnce) B7(ºnce)
He told me you just worry about writing them songs leaving everything else to me
E
Daddy was a Highwayman but he never wrote any old country songs
E
Papaw never stayed out raising hell til the break of dawn
E A7
But he raised a proud coal miners daughter and I'm proud to be her son
E(ºnce) B7(ºnce)
She told me boy I don't care if you hit it big, cause you?re already #1
A7 E
That's the way it goes in this day & age
E B7
You ain't gotta read between the lines you just gotta turn the page
A7 E
Well the most outlaw thing that I've ever done was give a good woman a ring
E B7 E
But that's the way it goes, life ain't fair and the world is mean
E
Well I still got the wife and the dog but I swapped the truck out for a van
E
Gonna hit the road find the end of that long white line in the promise land
E A7 E
Won?t hear my song on the radio cause that new sounds all the rage
E B7(ºnce)
But you can always find me in a smokey bar with bad sound and a dim lit stage
A7 E
That's the way it goes in this day & age
E B7
You ain't gotta read between the lines you just gotta turn the page
A7 E
Well the most outlaw thing that I've ever done was give a good woman a ring
E B7 E
But that's the way it goes, life ain't fair and the world is mean
E B7
But that's the way it goes, life ain't fair and the world is mean