I Got a Gig chords by
Hayes Carll

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Key: B major•

Intro 1

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Verse 1

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Eight line

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machine and a sailor's daughter

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Somethin' makes 'em crazy

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growin' up on the water

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Playin' for my supper six nights a week

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Hurricanes,

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C

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C#

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Bb

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Easter and New Year's Eve

C

C

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Four tin walls now there ain't much left

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Lookin' like a homeless

Cheers on meth

C

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Homer's in the corner,

breakin' up a fight

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C

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Good Lord, I hope I get paid tonight

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I got a gig, baby

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Verse 2

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Burnt fried chicken and Lone Star beer

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Cops and the kids drink free 'round here

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G

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Girl, behind the bar is takin'

Dm

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what she's givin'

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D

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Lyin' about her past and

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tryin' to make a livin'

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Broke pool table and hard luck cues

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G

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Go tell your mama,

I done paid my dues

C

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Every one around here knows my name

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Six nights a week in the neon flame

Dm

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I got a gig, baby,

Interlude 1

I got a gig

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There's an

Verse 3

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old lion tamer

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parked behind the bar

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Hundred pounds of weed in a stolen car

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G

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Oil patch boys and girls

who went to college

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Rules you don't break and laws

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that ain't acknowledged

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Barefoot shrimper with

a pistol up his sleeve

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Some will go to Heaven,

some will never leave

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Pills in the tip jar, blood on the strings

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Oh Lord,

I never thought I'd see these things

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I gotta gig, baby,

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I got a gig

Interlude 2

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Gm

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Verse 4

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Eight line machine and a sailor's daughter

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Somethin' makes 'em crazy

Bb

Bb

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growin' up on the water

G

G

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I'm playin' for my supper

D

D

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G

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Gm

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six nights a week

Bb

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Hurricanes, Easter and New Year's Eve

C

C

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I got a gig, baby, I got a gig

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Dm

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I got a gig, baby,

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I got a

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gig

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Gm

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C

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I got a gig

Outro 1

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Chords

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The original key of I Got a Gig by Hayes Carll is B major.

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