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Get A Little Dirt On Your Hands chords by
David Allan Coe
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Key: E major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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When I was a little boy
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Daddy used to say to me "Son,"

"We got a lot of land
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We got a lot of work to be done"
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Verse 2
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Go get your marbles,
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put 'em in the house
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Tear down your castles in the sand
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Come with your pappy to
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the cotton patch
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G

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Get a little dirt on your hands
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Get a little dirt on your hands
Verse 3
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Get a little dirt on your hands, son
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Get a little dirt on your hands
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If you're gonna grow up to be a big,
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big man
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Get a little dirt on your hands
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Get a little dirt on your hands
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Interlude 1
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F#
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6

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Verse 4
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Well, I reached twenty- one
Ab
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And I thought I was a pretty big wheel

I left the country for the city
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Met a slicker with a shady

deal
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Verse 5

Ab
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He said, "hold up the bank,
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boy and take all the money
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And run as fast as you can
Ab
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The only way you'll ever
Eb
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get along in this world
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Ebm
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Is to get a little dirt on your hands
Ab
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F#
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Get a little dirt on your hands
Verse 6
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Cm
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Get a little dirt on your hands, son
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Get a little dirt on your hands
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Ab
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If you want to grow up to be a big, big man
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Get a little dirt on your hands
Ab
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F#
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2

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Ebm
Ebm
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Get a little dirt on your hands"
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Verse 7


Well, it's four in the morning
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And the warden is calling' my
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name

He said he's teaching' me a lesson
Ab
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Now he's making' me
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go work in the rain
Verse 8
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Dig that ditch, boy, fill it up
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I'm wanting you to understand
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Ab
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The only way to straighten
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out a guy like you
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Is to get a little dirt on his hands
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Get a little dirt on his hands
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Verse 9

Cm
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Hey, David
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Got to get a little dirt on those hands,
Cm
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boy
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Yeah, if you want to grow up to be a big,
Ab
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Ab
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big man (if you wanna grow up to be a big, big man)
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You better remember what old Whispering Bill told you in his
Ab
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song (you got to get a little dirt on your hands)
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Get a little dirt on those hands
Verse 10
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Cm
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Little dirt on your hands, son
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Get a little dirt on your hands
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Ab
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If you want to grow up to be a big, big man
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Get a little dirt on your hands
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Get a little dirt on your hands
Ab
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Get a little dirt on your hands, son
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I got a little dirt on my hands
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Verse 11


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An acoustic guitar head with tuning pegs

Tuning:Standard Open Tuner
Chords

  • D

  • Dm

  • F

  • G

  • A

  • Bm

    2

  • Eb

    6

  • Ebm

    6

  • F#

    2

  • Ab

    4

  • Bb

  • Cm

    3

Capo: 2

Transpose: 0

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The original key of Get A Little Dirt On Your Hands by David Allan Coe is E major.

The primary chords used in Get A Little Dirt On Your Hands are E, Em, G, A, B, C#m.

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