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Get a Little Dirt On chords by Bill Anderson, David Allan Coe

  • D

  • Dm

  • F

  • G

  • A

  • Bm

    2
  • Eb

    6
  • Ebm

    6
  • F#

    2
  • Ab

    4
  • Bb

  • Cm

    3
Intro 1
D
Dm
F
Dm
F
D
Dm
G
D
Dm
F
Dm
Verse 1
D
When I was a little boy
G
A
D
Daddy used to say to me "Son,"
"We got a lot of land
G
A
We got a lot of work to be done"
D

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Verse 2
G
Go get your marbles,
D
put 'em in the house
G
A
D
Tear down your castles in the sand
G
D
Come with your pappy to the cotton patch
G
Get a little dirt on your hands
D
G
F
Dm
D
Dm
D
Get a little dirt on your hands
Verse 3
D
Bm
Get a little dirt on your hands, son
D
Bm
Get a little dirt on your hands
D
G
If you're gonna grow up to be a big,
D
big man
G
D
Get a little dirt on your hands
G
F
D
Dm
Get a little dirt on your hands
D
Dm
Interlude 1
F
D
Eb
Ebm
F#
Eb
Verse 4
Eb
Well, I reached twenty- one
Ab
Bb
Eb
And I thought I was a pretty big wheel
I left the country for the city
Ab
Bb
Met a slicker with a shady
deal
Eb
Ebm
Verse 5
Ab
He said, "hold up the bank,
Eb
boy and take all the money
Ab
Bb
Eb
And run as fast as you can
Ab
The only way you'll ever
Eb
get along in this world
Ab
Eb
Ebm
Is to get a little dirt on your hands
Ab
F#
Eb
Get a little dirt on your hands
Verse 6
Eb
Cm
Get a little dirt on your hands, son
Eb
Cm
Get a little dirt on your hands
Eb
Ab
Eb
If you want to grow up to be a big, big man
Ab
Eb
Get a little dirt on your hands
Ab
F#
Get a little dirt on your
Ebm
Eb
Ebm
hands"
F#
Eb
Verse 7
Well, it's four in the morning
Ab
Bb
And the warden is calling' my
Eb
Ebm
Eb
name
He said he's teaching' me a lesson
Ab
Now he's making' me
Bb
Eb
Ebm
go work in the rain
Verse 8
Ab
Eb
Dig that ditch, boy, fill it up
Ab
Bb
I'm wanting you to understand
Eb
Ab
The only way to straighten
Eb
out a guy like you
Ab
Eb
Is to get a little dirt on his hands
Ab
F#
Eb
Ebm
Get a little dirt on his hands
Eb
Verse 9
Cm
Hey, David
Eb
Got to get a little dirt on those hands,
Cm
boy
Eb
Ab
Yeah, if you want to grow up to be a big,
Eb
Ab
big man (if you wanna grow up to be a big, big man)
Eb
You better remember what old Whispering Bill told you in
Ab
F#
Ebm
his song (you got to get a little dirt on your hands)
Eb
Get a little dirt on those hands
Verse 10
Eb
Cm
Little dirt on your hands, son
Eb
Cm
Get a little dirt on your hands
Eb
Ab
Eb
If you want to grow up to be a big, big man
Ab
Eb
Get a little dirt on your hands
Ab
F#
Eb
Get a little dirt on your hands
Ab
F#
Eb
Get a little dirt on your hands, son
Ab
F#
I got a little dirt on my
Eb
hands
Ebm
F#
F#
Eb
Verse 11
Get a little dirt on your hands
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