[Verse 1]
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Our name's been on that mailbox
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The last 100 years
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We're the walking definition
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Of blood, sweat and tears
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You ask them who we are
G F
They'll tell you mean and surly
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We're the keepers of tradition
F C
That Brightleaf and Burley
[Chorus]
F C
We get low down
F C
We get high as a kite
F C
Lord I wish I may
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Lord I wish I might
F C
Be singing this song
G C
When I hit the pearly gates
F C G C
Greetings from Tobacco Town, USA
F C G C G/B
Greetings from Tobacco Town, USA
[Verse 2]
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I've been wandering these roads
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Since I was 3 years old
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Watching the men I thought were gods
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Turning green leafs into gold
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Now the fields they all lay empty
G F
Curing barns are growing cold
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All the while another cash crop
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Just begging to be sold
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Yeah, we got the infrastructure
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Lord know's we got the will
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But a solution to a problem
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Doesn't pay that problem's bills
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So they'll keep calling it illegal
G F
Keep pumping us with pills
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Tell Roosevelt what the Bible Belt
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Went and did to his New Deal
[Chorus]
F C
We get low down
F C
We get high as a kite
F C
Lord I wish I may
G C
Lord I wish I might
F C
Be singing this song
G C
When I hit the pearly gates
F C G C
Greetings from Tobacco Town, USA
F C G C
Greetings from Tobacco Town, USA
[Bridge]
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We could pay for oil
F C
Coal and steel
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If the factory work ain't left yet
F C
Bet a dollar that it will
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We redefined resilience
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We'll make it somehow
Am G F C
But if God was going to save us, he'd have done it by now
Am G F C
If your god was going to save us, he'd have done it by now
[Chorus]
F C
We get low down
F C
We get high as a kite
F C
Lord I wish I may
G C
Lord I wish I might
F C
Be singing this song
G C
When I hit the pearly gates
F C G C
Greetings from Tobacco Town, USA
F C G Am
Greetings from Tobacco Town, USA
[Outro]
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