Small Town chords by Nappy Roots

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Intro 1

Verse 1

[Lil Yuk]

Boy say to me, he say,

"Ay Yuk! What's yo favorite city?"

And I say "West Virginia. That's

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Verse 2
my home town."
C 
[Chorus:]
Take me back to West V- A
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Take me back to Charleston
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It's them doggone busy city streets
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That I'm ridin' to get far from
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F 
Ridin' to a small town
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Ridin' to a small town
Take me back to Massachusetts
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Take me back to Cape Cod
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It's them doggone big ol' city buildings
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I'm ridin' to escape from
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Ridin' to a small town
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Ridin' to a small town

Verse 3
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[B. Stille] Yo, uh,
ridin' past beautiful cow fields
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Top down see how the air feels
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I see trees that was here before me
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Seem like each one's telling a story
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I just wanna go hit the local bar
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Where the owner's fat
and smoke cigars
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Where country girls attracted me
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Like everybody works in a factory
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Where they ship they goods to bigger places
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A city lights just could never replace this
Where high school sports
is what we live for
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Hit the lotto and next
week you still poor
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In a small town
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[Chorus:] Take me back to West V- A

Verse 4
F 
Take
me back to Charleston
C 
It's them doggone busy city streets
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That I'm ridin' to get far from
C 
F 
Ridin' to a small town
C 
Ridin' to a small town
Take me back to Massachusetts
F 
Take me back to Cape Cod
C 
G 
It's them doggone big ol' city buildings
F 
I'm ridin' to escape from
C 
F 
Ridin' to a small town
C 
F 
Ridin' to a small town

Verse 5
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[Ron Clutch] They say
the whole damn
world is country
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Small town livin', not a porch monkey
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Dirt road an d gravel,
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anywhere you travel
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Mechanic is the sheriff is the judge
with the gavel
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Everybody cousin, cuz everybody kin
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Piggly Wiggly one school
everybody friends
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From high school football
to family reunions
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Movin' at the speed of life
drunk by noon and
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That's my uncle,
I know everybody got one
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Freaky- ass white girl, daddy got a shotgun
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Fly through the town,
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ya blink ya might miss it
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City slicker in the country wish
you come visit
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Verse 6

Come on down, come on down

Verse 7

Lil' Yuk, what you think about

that right there?

Verse 8
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[Lil' Yuk] Like, man, uh,
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I like North Carolina.
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I like Kentucky, Tennessee, like...
I don't wanna,
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I wanna see something important and
take a right and right there at it
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I don't like all that traffic.
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I like to get where I'm going
I like people with things on
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they man like,
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"Let's have a good time,
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let's sit on the porch."
That's what I was telling my
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homeboy Plump down in Duluth.
You know, in Georgia
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We was gonna kick it and do it way big.
He always show us
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around at the office
And like why you go to the office?
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I'm like "Man it's some real people
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comin' from a small town."
And that's where I'm from.
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And that's where I do rappin'
That's Nappy Roots.
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That's Fish Scales, and that's Clutch
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an that's B. Stille and that's Skinny Deville,
that's V
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That's, that's history, man
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You know when you from the country
everything's cool, you know
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Give us a front porch,
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give us a  thing of Patron and give us
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you know a few Corona,
a Red Stripe.
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You know, things like that
Budweiser if ya money's low.
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But we gonna have a good time,
man
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we comin from a small town.
Bowling Green, Kentucky
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Milledgeville, Georgia.
You know thangs like that
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I like Keepwater (??) Mississippi,
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you know, Florida
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All them places like that, small town
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Still love for LA and Chicago,
but when I wanna kick I wanna
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be in a small town
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Verse 9
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[Chorus:]
Take me back to West V- A
F 
Take me back to Charleston
C 
It's them doggone busy city streets
F 
That I'm ridin' to get far from
C 
F 
Ridin' to a small town
C 
Ridin' to a small town
G 
Take me back to Massachusetts
F 
Take me back to Cape Cod
C 
It's them doggone big ol' city buildings
F 
I'm ridin' to escape from
C 
F 
Ridin' to a small town
C 
Ridin' to a small town
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