Good Friends And Neighbors chords by Jerry Reed

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Verse 1
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Well it was midnight cold and rainy
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In the sleepy   town of Fairburn
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population small
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An angry man stood out on
mainstreet
Shiverin' in his coatsleeves by
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the City Hall wall
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The many of a car that
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passed him in for an hour
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But they wouldn't look at him at all

Verse 2
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So he yelled damn you friends and neighbors
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you won't give me a ride
My feet are sore from walking
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and I'm frozed by inside
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Lord a man could catch his death
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of colds or a severe case of flu
Thanks to friends and neighbors
like you
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Verse 3
Well he come storming into
my restaurant
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Dripping water soaked and were
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in a  freezing cold
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I poured him a hot black cup of coffee
took his coat off cursing mad
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And here's the tale that he old
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Said I picked up a young hitchhiker
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Took my bill fold and my car and
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left me off down the road

Verse 4
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Well I must have walked
for hours to get here
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Went to see your friendly sheriff
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in my desperation
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He'd just sit there and pick his teeth
Laughed a little when I told him
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of my sitation
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And when I finished he
leaned back and belched
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Said let me see some identification

Verse 5
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Cause he said damn you friends and neighbors
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seems like every Saturday night
I get an awful full of this same old bull
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cause I'm drunk as off half tight
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Hey the weekend's same old story
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don't get home till one or two
Thanks to friends and neighbors
like you
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Verse 6
Well I called your sheriff a dirty name
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Then was thrown out through
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his front door by a big deputy
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I hit that sidewalk cursin' shook
my fist back in his face
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Said you can't do this to me
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Cause I'm a circuit judge
for Monroe sheriff
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And you gonna pay for all this indignity

Verse 7
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Well I've seen some angry people
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But I've never seen a man as
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mad as that fellow was
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He said I never did like feather I hate
the rain I hate hitchhikers
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And I'm sick of your local fuss
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And if ever I saw one town that
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needs another sheriff
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This is one town that does

Verse 8
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And he yelled damn you friends and neighbors
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as he grabbed his coat to leave
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Well it's just too funny to believe
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Lord I  could write a book of jokes
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about what I've been through
In this town of friends and neighbors