Beat Folk chords by Tom Russell

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Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Champagne don't  (C major) drive me crazy,
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 (F major) cocaine don't make me lazy,  (C major) ain't nobody's business but my  (G major) own.
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Candy  (C major) is dandy, but liquor is quicker,
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you can  (F major) take all the liquor down and cost a ricker.
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Ain't  (C major) nobody's  (G major) business but
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my own.  (C major)  (G major)  (F major) 
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 (C major) 
I discovered
Buck
Owens and
Bob
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Dylan on  (G major) the same night on  (F major) an old
wooden tube -driven radio
belonged to my
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 (G major) Uncle
George
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Malloy.  (C major) 
I thought
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 (G major) Buck and
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Bob were some new  (C major) form of hillbilly beat  (G major) folk  (C major) music,
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and  (G major) then  (F major) someone
turned me on to the writings of
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 (C major) Charles
Bukowski and his column,
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 (G major) Notes of a
Dirty
Old
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Man  (C major) in
Open
City
Newspaper.
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And later on I'd ac (G major) tually meet
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Bukowski  (F major) on
Hollywood and
Vine out on the street and we'd
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 (C major) start to correspond.  (G major) 
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 (C major) Of at the
Ash
Grove there was
Ramblin'
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Jack (G major) 
Elliot,
Neon
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 (C major) Sylvi (G major) a,
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 (C major) Lightnin'
Hopkins,
Mance
Lipscomb.
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 (G major) Later  (F major) on I'd see
Graham
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Parsons' melting coun (C major) try and rock,
the old
Charlie
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 (G major) Chaplin
Studios on
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 (F major) La
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Brea.  (C major) 
But
Dave
Van
Ronk out east,
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the growling minstrel  (F major) whose voice
would roar above the drunken den of the
White
Horse
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 (C major) Tavern,  (G major) where
Dylan
Thomas
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drank him (C major) self to death.
Man, a night in
Dave
Van
Ronk's apartment, wow.
Well, don't drive me crazy,
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 (F major) cocaine don't make me lazy
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Ain't  (C major) nobody's business but my  (G major) own
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New candy  (C major) is dandy but liquor is quicker
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You can  (F major) take all the liquor down to
Costa
Rica
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Ain't  (C major) nobody's busi (D major) 
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ness  (G major) but my own  (C major) 
Let's take it now
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Ain't nobody's business  (G major) but my own
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