Hard Scratch Pride Chords by Whitey Morgan And The 78S

_ [Fm] _ _ [Am] _ [Dm] _ [E] I'll live my [A] life and follow _ [E] that mother [B] and daddy are [E] dead.
_ _ _ _ [G] _ How could [Ab] I celebrate the God if it's irresistible?
It's not [C] irresistible. _ _ _
I _ was born down South Kentucky. _ _ _ _ _
A _ hot stretch holler I called [G] my home.
_ _ _ Till my [F] mama picked me.
_ Boy, don't [C] you wrong.
_ _ _ _ My [G] mama picked [C] [F] me.
Oh boy, [Bb] don't [C] you wrong. _ _ _ _ _ _
When I let that holler I was just a boy.
Flat broke and busted and helped me to make it on [F] my own.
_ [Fm] Well, I couldn't go [C] back home no more.
_ _ I could [G] hear that train.
It [F] ain't my old, that [C] lonesome song. _ _ _ _ _
[F] And I'm heading up to Detroit on a freight train.
Mama, I'm a follow me [C] a man.
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[F] I've been working seven days, building them Chevrolets.
I'm doing the [C] best I can.
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And I met me a little city girl and I'm gonna [C] make her a man of brown. _ _ _ _
[G] Oh, but don't worry, mama, [F] I ain't lost my [Cm] hard [C] scratch pride. _ _ _ _ _ _
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Twenty years have passed now since I hit the road.
I can hear the whip of the wheel.
Well, the dogwood ain't calling [Fm] me home.
_ _ [F] Oh, but mama, she's [C] long gone.
_ _ _ _ [G] And I can hear old Hank.
Yeah, he [F] gonna mow me that lonesome [C] whistle song. _ _ _ _ _
[F] And I'm heading up to Detroit on a freight train.
Mama, I'm a [Eb] follow me [C] a man.
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[F] I've been working seven days, building them Chevrolets.
I'm [Ab] doing the [C] best I can. _ _ _ _ _
[F] And I met me a little city girl and I'm gonna [Fm] make [C] her a man of brown.
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[G] But don't worry, mama, [F] I ain't lost my hard [C] scratch pride.
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