Intro To The Dirty South chords by Owen Temple

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Verse 1
Hey, thanks a lot.
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Along my list of heroes,
probably at the top is Hank Williams.
He wrote 700 songs
by the age of 29.
So that tells me I'm 35.
That tells me I'm 620 songs behind
and six years ahead.
I'm trying to catch up,
but my heroes are like Hank Williams,
Bob Dylan,
Tom Waits, Guy Clark,
Townes Van Zandt, Roger Miller.
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but come on down that hero list,
come on down that hero list,
it's a long one, it's multiple pages,
but at the very bottom of my hero list
is a singer -songwriter
named Gary Floater.
Don't worry if you haven't heard of him,
you all have somehow,
but he's the most unsuccessful
country songwriter
in history.
He got that award
and that's a hard thing to get you know
but he got that award
because what he does is he takes his
Fisher -Price tape recorder
and he sings songs into him
and he mails them
to some of the biggest names
in country music and those big stars
they not only send him rejection letters
they send him restraining orders
these are powerful songs
I'm gonna sing a Gary floater song
here if that's alright with you
I'm gonna sing it the way Gary would
if he was allowed in the Saxon pub
but it's nothing you know
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he's not allowed anywhere
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he's got an ankle monitoring device
he's got to stay on his own
porch
but this is a song
that Gary wrote
for a big -name star
I'm not gonna tell you her name
but she rejected it
and then he broke into her house
and played it for live
because sometimes live is better you
know than the recording
she didn't like the live any better
I won't tell you her name
but it rhymes with Reba
and so here's this song
this is what Gary Flutter song
this is called the dirty South
and I'm gonna sing it the way Gary
would
if he could be here tonight.