Southern Comfort chords by Johnny Cash

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Intro 1

Verse 1
C 
I've been
a thrill seeking rambler
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And often came into this town
C 
But the thrills were too high
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for my little sky
C 
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So I dug in and I've settled down
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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 
I'm slowly chokin' in Tennessee
F 
C 
I shovel the snuff until 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 
I met a woman in Nashville
G 
For a while we were carryin' on
C 
She'd washed snuff out
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of my shirts every night
C 
G 
C 
And keep me with clean ones on

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

Verse 8

comfort is killin' me

The Cumberland

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