Sure Did Sound Country chords by Kay Starr
Verse 1
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I guess you could
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call it a roadside attraction
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With a sign that blinked
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cold beer off Highway 5
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Gas pumps, cigarettes,
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groceries, and rednecks
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With a run down old dance hall
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with laughter inside
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Em
Walked in on high heels
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I was wearing for the first time
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Acting like thirty, going on fifteen
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Em
Red neon signs and danger
Bm
Mixed with the blue eyes of a stranger
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The jukebox played a slow one,
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and I danced in his arms
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He told me I sure did sound country
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He said to me that I look way out of place
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C
He asked me what I'd like
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to believe in
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And his Buick with Tennessee plates
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Gm
I guess you could call it
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C
a six dollar motel
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On the wrong side of Memphis
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in the Arkansas dawn
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Dingy old curtains
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and the stale smell of bourbon
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I woke up and reached for him but
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he was gone
Em
Bm
I cried all the way to some bar
down the highway
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Where that honky -tonk music
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called out to me
Em
Red neon signs and danger
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and this time a brown -eyed stranger
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I knew what he was thinking
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and I knew what he'd say
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He told me I sure did sound country
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He says to me that I look way out of place
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C
And he'd ask if I'd like
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to be leavin'
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In his Chevy with Alabama plates
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Dm
Now a million miles and twenty years later
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I think of all the love that's come and gone
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So take it from a woman
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who has seen it all
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You just can't make a motel a home
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They all told me I sure did sound country
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They told me that I looked
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way out of place
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They all asked me if I'd like to be leaving
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