Key: D major
Verse 1
over the hot stove
E
F#
And Papa was a -mendin' the cotton sack
I was a -hidin' up under the bed
E
F#
I didn't know to go to the cotton patch
Papa said, son,
you can't hide forever
E
F#
up there under the bed
I'm gonna give you some good advice
E
F#
and this is what my pap i said
B
F#
You gotta reach out and get
what you're gonna get
Don't take more than you really need
B
C#
And you'll get along just fine
E
F#
Ain't that right, baby?
E
F#
And mama said, yeah
I wish you was more like your brother Jake
E
F#
And not so much like old Eli Hunt
Cause Eli's crooked as a
barrel of snake
You've been makin'
Iza Thelma Jones
E
F#
She's already brought a family shame
It wouldn't take too much
to mess with her boy
E
F#
To run down your good name
Ain't that right, babe?
E
F#
Mama said, yeah
Ziggy Lambert says that it's watermelons
E
F#
All disappearing one by one
If you happen to pass, there's a knife, boy
Shotgun
He hears you a biddy goodbye,
And all the way down to the store and back
E
F#
I thought all about what my mama said
B
F#
You gotta reach out and give him
what you're gonna get
Don't take up more than you
really need
And you'll get along just
fine in this old world
E
F#
Ain't that right, baby?
Outro 1
F#
B
F#
B
F#
B
F#
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