I'M LITTLE BUT I'M LOUD Recorded by: (Little) Jimmy Dickens Writers: B. Bryant & J. Dickens A [G] lot of folks have told me I was [C] pulled 'fore I was [G] ripe A winter apple picked off in the [D7] fall But [G] even as a youngin' I was [C] ] not the bashful [G] type 'Cause I could yell the [D7] loudest of them [G] all. CHORUS I'm [C] ] little, but I'm loud I'm [G] poor, but I'm proud I'm countrified and I don't care who [D7] knows it I'm [G] like a banty rooster In a [C] big, red rooster [G] crowd I'm puny, short and [D7] little, but I'm [G] loud. I learned to do my singin Walkin' 'long behind a plow The singin' teachers always passed me by And so I have to sing The only way that I know how Just rare back, open up and let 'er fly. CHORUS I sang a special solo song In church one Sunday morn' And I was plumb embarassed to my chin I hit a high note, looked around And sure as I was born Two cows and fourteen hogs were walkin' in. CHORUS SOURCE: "LITTLE" JIMMY DICKENS/"RAISIN' THE DICKENS" Columbia CL 1047