Southern Comfort chords by Johnny Cash

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Intro 1

Verse 1
C 
 (C major) I've been
a thrill seeking rambler
G 
And often came into this  (G major) town
C 
But the  (C major) thrills were too high
F 
for my  (F major) little sky
C 
G 
 (C major) So I dug in and  (G major) I've settled down
C 
 (C major) 

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Verse 2

And I got a good job in Nashville

No way they can pay me enough

For grindin' up tobacco leaves

Making brut and snuff

Verse 3

Southern comfort is killin' me

Verse 4
F 
C 
 (F major) I'm slowly chokin' in  (C major) Tennessee
F 
C 
I shovel  (F major) the snuff until  (C major) late afternoon
Then I crawl with the traffic
and I choke on its fumes
And fall on the face when
I get to my room

Verse 5

Southern comfort is killin' me

Verse 6
C 
 (C major) 
I met a woman in Nashville
G 
For a while we were carryin'  (G major) on
C 
She'd  (C major) washed snuff out
F 
of my shirts  (F major) every night
C 
G 
C 
And  (C major) keep me with  (G major) clean ones  (C major) on

Verse 7
C 
 (C major) 
But I guess she got tired of tobacco
G 
At least of the regular  (G major) kind
C 
F 
Now  (C major) I'm still workin' where  (F major) nicotine
C 
G 
And  (C major) memories are burn (G major) 
C 
in' in my  (C major) mind
F 
And Southern  (F major) 

Verse 8

comfort is killin' me

The Cumberland

Verse 9
F 
 (F major) cannot
C 
 (C major) enhermit each bee
F 
I'm  (F major) sniffin' and dippin'
C 
and livin'  (C major) alone
I smell funny smoke and I know
where she's gone
She's in some other county
now proving her own