Chords for Front Porch Song-Robert Earl Keen

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_ [E] _ _ [A] _ This old porch just a big old [F#m] red and white herping bull
[D] Standing under a mesquite [A] tree and I would do so Texas
He just keeps on playing hide and [F#m] seek with that hot on the Sun.
[D] He's sweating and a man
[E] _ _ _ _ [A] _ They _ [F#m] _ _ _ [D] got them cows
[E] And that red top came [A] this old port just to steam and [F#m] grease the plate of enchiladas
[D] With lots of cheese and onions
[E] Walk among [A] the salad you get a man from the style [F#] hotel and old downtown
[D] But I see in a waitress [E] Will smile
[B] _ [A] Every time
[F#m] Yes, you will I
[D] left a quarter tip
[E] on my
$10 bill [A] this old porch is a palace walking [F#m] on a main street in Texas
[D] They never seen her today [A] the G&R
Nexen with that 62 poster.
[F#m] It's almost faded down [D] and a screen without a picture [E] Since [A] John
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_ [F#m] Oh, I [D] love them junior men and [E] then read I
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_ [F#m] _ Yeah, _ [D] _ _ _
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_ [E] _ _ _ _ [A] well, my name is Robert Earl [F#m] King Jr.
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[F#m] I'd like to welcome y'all here to the [D] sons of Herman Hall
_ [E] We're [A] having a big time tonight
I wrote this song here [F#m] the front porch song with my friend Lyle [D] love it back some years ago.
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[E] _ _ [A] _ _ _ We lived in [F#m] College Station, Texas
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We [Em] was [B] Aggies oh
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_ [F#m] _ No, some non [D] Aggie fans _
_ [E] _ [B] We used to sit on this [A] old porch on Church Street right [F#m] across from the Presbyterian Church and [D] play
Bluegrass and folk [E] music and [A] talk about
Girls and where [F#m] we were gonna move to when our parents got our [D] grades _ _
_ [E] _ _ [B] _ _ [A] _ Talk about [F#m] someday big coming big songwriters
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[E] And our [B] conversations were only interrupted [A] by my landlord Jack Boyette who was [F#m] 70 years old at the time
[D] he'd roll up in the heat of the day and
[E] Roll down his window on his pickup truck just enough [A] to be heard not enough [F#m] to let in the air conditioning and escape
[D] _ Say Robert [E] King Robert King
[C#m] _ [A] Can you come help me for a minute?
_ [F#m] _ I've spent the rest of [D] the day mowing lawns and moving furniture
[E] _ _ [A] _ Digging skinny cows out of the [F#m] mud out there at his old ranch
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[E] But we always look [B] forward to Sunday there on [A] the porch because being across from [F#m] the
Presbyterians we crawl [D] out about 1130 Sunday morning [E] in our underwear
_ _ [A] amongst four or five hundred [F#m] empty beer cans
[D] strap on a banjo and a guitar
[E] wait for the
[A] Presbyterians _ _
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_ [E] _ _ We was [A] waiting for him to come out of church [F#m] so we could sing him a little gospel music
[D] _ Give him something to [E] talk about on their way to Luby's
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[F#] _ _ _ [A] This old porch just a weathered gray [F#m] head 70 years of Texas
[D] He's doing all he can [Em] not to give in to [A] the city
He always takes a rent late [F#m] so long as I run his cattle
[D] He picks me up at dinner time.
[E] I listen to [A] him rattle
He says the prizes still runs muddy like [F#m] she's run all along
They [D] never been okay to grind [E] the cotton's all but gone, you know this [A] Chevrolet pickup truck
Yes, [F#m] she was something back in 60.
[D] Now.
There won't nobody listen to
[E] They all [A] think he's crazy.
It's so hard just a [F#m] long time waiting and forgetting
[D] _ Remembering the coming back [E] not crying [A] about the leaving and remembering
The falling [F#m] down of the laughter of the curse of [D] luck from all those sons of bitches
[E] They said we never [A] get back up _ _ _ _
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_ _ [A] This old porch just a [E] big old red and [F#m] white her for bull
[D] Standing under a mesquite [E] tree.
I'm [A] not what do say this keeps home playing [F#m] hide-and-seek with that
[F#m] August son, he's [D] sweating out of bed
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I know _ [D] the whole lot of old bulls of my life and their work is [A] never done
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