Peppercorn Tree Chords by Eric Taylor

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[F] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ Came out of [Am] Angelina County, all in [C] cane and molasses, _
Another hot rod boy wearing [G] mirror sunglasses. _
I had a [Am] friend out in Houston named [C] Jackson Lee,
_ _ [F] With a pretty little sister down at the [G] Tasty Free.
_ _ [C] I had a pretty little sister down at the [G] Tasty Free,
_ _ [C] _ _ _
_ [Am] Hark a road on the near [C] north side,
_ We had flathead fords and [G] honeysuckle vines,
_ _ [Am] Life about as good as it got back [C] then,
_ _ [F] Livin' right down the road [C] from Rin Tin Tin.
_ We [F] lived right down the road from Rin [G] Tin Tin.
_ _ Now the Angelina River can't carry me back,
[Am] Up to Angelina [C] County and live like that,
Long as I live [A] boys that's a fact,
[C] I'll keep the Angelina River runnin' at my back. _
I'll keep the Angelina [D] River runnin' at my [C] _ back.
_ _ _ _ _ [Am] Me and Jack Lee had some [C] fallin' down,
_ _ [D] So I took your little sister and we [G] headed on south.
She _ [Am] painted her toenails bubble [C] gum,
_ [F] We had baseball cards and [G] Jamaican rum, _
_ [C] Baseball cards and Jamaican rum, _ _
_ _ _ Went down [Am] to Calveston [C] wild and free,
_ Yeah I signed me Davis Jr.,
this girl and me,
_ _ [Am] Well I got a job dealin' [C] cards down there, _
She made it the best place anyway,
_ [G] _
She can make [C] any place the best place anyway,
[G] _ _ [C] _
_ _ [D] Now the [C] Angelina River can't carry me back,
[Am] Up to Angelina County [C] and live like that,
_ [G] Long as I live [C] boys that's a fact,
I'll [F] keep the Angelina River [C] runnin' at my back. _ _
[D] I'll keep the Angelina River runnin' at my [C] _ back.
_ _ _ [G] You can [Am] take the work in the oil fields and the [C] shrimp boats too,
_ They tell you sellin' used cars will make a fool out of you,
[G] _ [Am] Out of all the hard travelin' that I've [C] ever seen, _
_ I come home in the evening she's waitin' for me,
When I come home in the evening she's waitin' for me, _
_ _ _ Well we never left Texas except for that one time,
_ [F] Somewhere in California back when Jack's wife [Cm] died,
_ It's about a lonesome [C] moment as a man can have, _
[G] Just [Fm] drinkin' sweet tea and bourbon from a jelly glass,
[G] _
We were drinkin' [F] sweet tea and bourbon from a jelly glass,
[G] _ _ [C] _
_ [G] _ _ Now the Angelina River can't carry me back,
[Am] Up to Angelina County [C] and live like that,
_ Long as I live [A] boys that's a fact,
[C] I'll keep the Angelina River runnin' at my back, _
[D] I'll keep the Angelina River runnin' at my [C] _ back.
_ _ _ _ Yeah we would [Am] have if we could have maybe had [C] some kids,
_ _ I don't know much [F] about it, we [C] just never did,
_ _ Well they'd [Am] all be grown, [C] gone by now,
_ [F] Livin' down here on the border in [C] this little house, _
While we're [F] down here on the border [G] in this little house, _ _
_ _ _ She [Am] never asked about the river, the cane [C] or molasses,
This old [F] hot rod boy [C] wearin' mirror sunglasses,
She [Am] never talked about the trouble [C] with Jackson Lane, _
And [F] now she's out there [C] by the peppercorn tree, _ _
[D] Yeah she's out there by the [C] peppercorn tree, _ _
[F] Yeah she's layin' out there by the [C] peppercorn tree,
_ She's [D] out there,
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