Fastest Man Alive - Steve Earle

Fastest Man Alive chords

[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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Well I come from West Virginia and the day that I was born
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Hit the ground running like a wind and I was gone
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I was faster than a rabbit and I left the deer behind
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And the mountains couldn't hold me so I headed down the line
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Got to California and joined up with Uncle Sam
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Said "I've come to halt the Nazis I'm a mighty mighty man"
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They couldn't hold me down

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So they taught me how to fly
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Then they shipped me 'cross the ocean
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Now I'm the fastest man alive
 
[Verse 2]
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My name's Charles Elwood Yeager, everybody called me Chuck
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I'm a bone stick and rudder mother brother sure enough
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I was all that they could handle
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till they shot me down in France
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Then I swam across the Channel just to get another chance
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When the war was over, pinned a medal on my chest
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Then sent me to an airfield in the desert way out west
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Said "Someone got an airplane everybody's scared to fly"
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Said "Bubba let me at her I'm the fastest man alive.”
 
[Verse 3]
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Well she looked like she was flying
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'Fore she ever left the ground
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So we strapped to her to a bomber and we took a spin around
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Said "Boys all call her Glennis. She’s the one I love the best.”
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What you say we put her aerodynamics to a test?"
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We were high above the desert when we let the sucker drop
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When we lit that Roman candle boy you should've heard her pop
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It shook the mighty mountains when we crossed that sonic line
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Seven hundred miles an hour I'm the fastest man alive
 
[Instrumental]
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[Verse 4]
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I'm a lover, I'm a fighter, I'm a sinner, I'm a saint
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I'm a mover, I'm a shaker. Ask your mother if I ain’t
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I'm the rumble with the thunder. I'm the bolt out of the blue
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I'm the master of the stratosphere, a pilot tried and true
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My name's Charles Elwood Yeager and I've been everywhere
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Paris, London, Timbuktu and Dover, Delaware
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Ended up in California. That's where I'm gonna die
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I come from West Virgina. I'm the fastest man alive
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I'm the fastest man alive
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The fastest man alive
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The fastest man alive