Back Then chords
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Intro [Am] [G] [D]
([Em]) ([C]) ([G]) ([D])
Tell me a story about outlaws, Grandpa
([Em]) ([C]) ([G]) ([D])
Tell me a story about those wild, wild days
([Em]) ([C]) ([G]) ([D])
Tell me a story about cowboys, Grandpa
([Em]) ([C]) ([G]) ([D])
Tell me a story about where you were raised
And he'd say
([Em]) ([C]) ([G]) ([D])
Over yonder's where I was born
([Em]) ([C]) ([G]) ([D])
Down near the meadow In a plank-board shack
([Em]) ([C]) ([G]) ([D])
Times were hard then for honest folks
([Em]) ([C]) ([G]) ([D])
But we made up for all the things we lacked
([Em]) ([C]) ([G]) ([D])
Didn't have lawmen but we had thieves
([Em]) ([C]) ([G]) ([D]) ([Em]) ([C])
They used to hang them from that oak tree back then
([G]) ([D]) ([Em]) ([C]),([G]),([D]),
That's just the way things were back then
Tell me a story about outlaws, Grandpa
Trying to find a place that's safe
Tell me a story about young men, Grandpa
The kind that sometimes make mistakes
And he'd say
Over yonder lies an old headstone
Of a man who tried to outrun his past
He settled down here and he made a home
But he was wanted alive or dead
Saw my first lawman when I was thirteen
He shot my daddy down in front of me back then
That's just the way things were back then
SOLO
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Tell me a story about poor men, Grandpa
Trying to feed their body and souls
Tell me a story about farmers, Grandpa
Who cleared the land where the dogwoods grow
And he'd say
Over yonder's where I would plow
We scratched a living among these hills
We raised peanuts and we raised cows
But I made my living from a whiskey stillThey sent a lawman when I was eighteen
I tried to run but they arrested meI spent a year and a day in the county jail
That's where I was
When the market fell
SOLO
Tell me a story about outlaws, Grandpa.