Damnyankee Lad chords by
Jimmy Driftwood
Jimmy Driftwood

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Key: A major
Verse 1
F#m
F#m

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D
D

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G
G

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I'm just a damn Yankee
way down in the south.
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C

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G

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I love to kiss southern bells in the mouth.
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C

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I laugh when they say
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G

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all damn Yankees are bad,
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C

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for nobody knows I'm a
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G

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damn Yankee lad.
When I found old Sherman
had left me behind
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C

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G
G

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A very strange notion came into my mind
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G
G

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I dressed up in grey and I made up a spiel
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C

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And I headed straight for
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G

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the town of Mobile
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C

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G

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I'm having fun like I
never have had
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C

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G
G

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C
C

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Nobody knows I'm a
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G

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D
D

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C
C

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G

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damn Yankee lad
Not far from Atlanta,
I heard people say
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C

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G

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Old Sherman had taken the food all away
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C

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T 'was there that I smiled
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G

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on a lovely madame
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C

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G
G

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Who fed me on honey and peaches and ham
I stopped in Montgomery
and got in a tight
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Where six widows claimed me
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G

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and had a big fight
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I had to be slick as a slippery eel
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To get on my way to the town of Mobile
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G

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I'm having fun like I never have had
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C

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And nobody knows I'm
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G

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D
D

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G

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a damn Yankee lad
I got to Mobile and I found a Creole
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C

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She captured my heart and
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G

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she captured my soul
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C

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It's been twenty years since
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I made up my spiel
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C

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And went on my damn
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G

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Yankee way to Mobile
I've raised a big family of
girls and young men
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C

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They swear the damn Yankees
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G

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are all full of sin
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C

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They'd call you a liar if you said their dad
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Had marched to Mobile as
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G

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a damn Yankee lad
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C

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I'm having fun like I nev
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G

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er have had
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C

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G
G

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Nobody knows I'm a damn
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D

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G
G

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Yankee lad
When I get so old that I'm ready to die
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C

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G

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I'll put on my uniform blue as the sky
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They'll march round my coffin
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G

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and won't they get mad
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When they learn that I was
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G

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a damn Yankee fan
I'm just a damn Yankee
way down in the South
C
C

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G

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I love to kiss Southern bells in the mouth
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C

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I laugh when they say
G
G

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all damn Yankees are
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C

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For nobody knows I'm a
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G

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damn Yankee lad
C
C

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G
G

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I'm havin' fun like I never have had
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C

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G
G

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Nobody knows I'm a damn Yankee lad
Outro 1
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