Backwood's Girl chords by
Doug Sahm
Sir Douglas Quintet

N/A•

Key: G major•

Verse 1

G

G

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She left the college crying,

they didn't understand her no more

D

D

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G

G

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D

D

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Now she floats around the house,

G

G

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doesn't get much anymore

She's a queen of all the ladies

D

D

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G

G

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Put her soul to deep despair

D

D

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But she floats around the place

G

G

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Doesn't even have a care

C

C

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She used to be the queen

G

G

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Of all the ball_ s in town

C

C

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She used to be the queen

of the balls

G

G

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D

D

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Wherever she's around

G

G

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She left the cottage crying

She just couldn't understand

her no more

D

D

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Now she floats around the house

G

G

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Doesn't get much anymore

She's a queen of all the ladies

But her pride begins to show

C

C

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D

D

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She's just another honky -tonk

C

C

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D

D

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She's just a billy -wonk

C

C

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She's just kind of,

D

D

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G

G

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kind of a backward girl

D

D

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Oh, baby, don't you understand

If it wasn't for backward girls

G

G

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Well, me the backwoods man

What you gonna try?

D

D

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What you gonna do to me, baby

When I go?

If you think I'll be around

Hold it there

And you'll know

That it's your clown

When the snow hits the ground

G

G

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I will be back

D

D

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G

G

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D

D

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She's just a back_ woods girl

G

G

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D

D

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That's all she is

And she makes it backward, man

G

G

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You're awful, awful good

C

C

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She's the queen of all the ladies

G

G

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The one that lays it down

D

D

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Most of all

She's my lady

C

C

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G

G

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And she follows me around

She'd buy the time to write me,

D

D

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G

G

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just to let me know you ran away

D

D

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C

C

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But Dilley Sue was only twelve,

but her folks went away

G

G

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They didn't understand what

D

D

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G

G

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it took to make a groove

C

C

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And then she went to California

G

G

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with nothing, nothing to do

She arrived at the Greyhound station

D

D

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G

G

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The corner of 7th and Mar_ ket

D

D

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in San Francisco that night

C

C

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And night it sure was right

G

G

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Right there to_ night

D

D

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G

G

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D

D

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G

G

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Well, you see, this backwood girl,

she wanted to unfold a mystery

C

C

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D

D

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As she walked down the San

G

G

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Francisco street_ s at night

D

D

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G

G

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She was just a little girl

C

C

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that nobody understood

G

G

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They just said,

D

D

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she'll go through her changes someday

G

G

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C

C

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But you know as well as I do

G

G

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That she's her father's in -choo

And it don't make no difference to her

D

D

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G

G

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D

D

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C

C

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If her birth_ day comes in Jun_ e

G

G

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Joelle,

C

C

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G

G

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she's just a backwoods girl in the city

C

C

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Oh, she's just a backwood

G

G

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girl in the city law

C

C

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But will you please come back to me

G

G

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Love this back_ wood man

one more time

D

D

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Please come back, back,

back, back to the woods

G

G

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And love me one more time

C

C

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D

D

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She's just a back, back,

G

G

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C

C

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backwood girl

Backwoods, that's what she had

D

D

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G

G

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a claim to fame.

Goodnight.

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Chords

G
D
C

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The original key of Backwood's Girl by Doug Sahm, Sir Douglas Quintet is G major.

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