Country Kid chords by The Avett Brothers
Verse 1
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I was a country kid through and through
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I got my bare feet bit by
a wreckin' crew
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Of fire ants on a mission
For total domination of the
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font yard
Verse 2
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Three years old on a ramshackle farm
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Winnie the Pooh in the crook of my arm
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Brother and sister not meaning no harm,
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D
pickin' on me
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Verse 3
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I was a country kid with
a strong foundation
C
Gettin' myself a whole second
D
education in the back of the bus
Kids kissin' and cussin'
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D
all around me
Verse 4
G
One more pickup in the trailer park
C
Hand to mouth,
livin'll break a young heart
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Beautiful girl with a hard,
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hard look in her eyes
Verse 5
C
Then I grew up and hit the city
G
But the skyscrapers never get me
A
I fly above 'em all the time,
straight through cloud nine
D
Flowing fast like the Mississippi
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I was a
Verse 6
country kid shootin'
hoops in the dirt
C
Hidin' smokes in the pocket
of a homemade shirt
D
Runnin' laps in the yard until my little
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D
legs hurt and then goin' again
Verse 7
G
Six feet of air off a plywood ramp
C
Dad's welding machine
parked where I would land
D
All I could taste was blood,
all I could feel were the rocks
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D
In the palms of my hands
Verse 8
G
I was a country kid throwin'
parties in the woods
C
Draggin' my friends out of
their neighborhoods
D
Jealous of their cable TV and
their girls next door
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Verse 9
D
G
Slippin' off into the dark
of the night
C
The shape of a body traced by moonlight
D
Interrupted by some other kid
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wantin' to fight over her
Verse 10
C
Then I grew up and hit the city
G
But the skyscrapers never get me
A
I fly above 'em all the time,
straight through cloud nine
D
Flowing fast like the Mississippi
Flowing fast like the Mississippi,
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D
G
woo
Interlude 1
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I was a country
Verse 11
kid
Now I'm grown,
D
with a job and a wife and a son of my own
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Navigatin' time zones,
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E
inspectin' the bones of the second half
Verse 12
A
Talkin' to God a little more often
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Less requests and more sayin' thank you
E
For every single town and every
single acre in between
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Verse 13
D
'Cause I grew up and hit the city
A
But that metropolis'll never get me
B
I fly above it all the time,
straight through cloud nine
E
Flowing fast like the Mississippi
Verse 14
D
Yeah, I grew up and hit the city
A
But the skyscrapers never get me
B
I fly above 'em all the time,
straight through cloud nine
E
Flowing fast like the Mississippi
Country Kid
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