Chords for Jeannie C Riley " Backside of Dallas"

This song that you're about to do?
Yeah, I want to tell you [Eb] something about it too when you get through. _
_ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ I don't know if I want to hear it.
_ _ _ _ _ I wrote this, [C] I _ was working at _ Weeno doing gunfights and [Bb] stuff.
_ And _ [G] we did a thing [Bb] before they, they had a big old building, I can't [C] remember what you call it, a coliseum. _
_ _ Fairgrounds in those days.
And _ I'd been falling on that concrete all day long.
_ The day before that I'd gone to Miller's Clinic and they told me I had pneumonia, but I needed to work.
_ _ [N]
So I worked that day and so when I went back that afternoon, _ I said I _ think I've still got pneumonia.
And they did an x-ray and said no you don't, you've got double pneumonia and you ain't going nowhere.
So _ _ I sent for a legal badge and a flare pin [Gb] _ and wrote this song while I was in the hospital with double pneumonia. _
I'd like to know who you were thinking about when you wrote that.
I was too.
_ _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
For the [Ebm] sake of memories I bet Sherry would like to know too.
[Gm] _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ I've got to tell you about, I'm not going to [Am] dedicate this one [B] to my mom, I don't think she'd want it. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ [B] I'm thankful that my cut of this was nominated for a Grammy.
_ _ It didn't win, but it was up for a Grammy. _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ My only Grammy award was [Ebm] for Harper Valley PTA, but that I'll never [N] grow. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [C] I just wanted to _ _ _ _ be [Ebm] like Karen to be on RCA, I wanted to be one of those voices [Eb] coming out of that gramophone.
And I wanted Harper Valley PTA.
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[C] You can't have it.
_ _ [Gm] _ _
_ _ Here we go, another [Bb] fight, I'm in the middle.
[Bm] _ _ _ [Gm] You know how friends are, [C] _ _ _ [G] for _ _ [C] me the reality of the British can [G] tell. _
_ [C] _ _ I'm really [G] lucky though, I [C] have _ songs [G] cut by both of these ladies.
[C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ [C] Well here's what I'm going to [G] tell you about it before I do it.
[C] _ _ _ [Gm] You can play it [C] all you want, but [G] I've got something I want to [C] say.
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[Gb] Happy happy [Gm] birthday baby.
[C] Okay, _ _ [G] _ _ about [C] _
_ _ [G] this song. _ _ _
I [Bb] included [G] this song _
[C] in my repertoire [G] of songs _ on [C] the George [G] Wallace _ _ campaign.
We had several [G] cities, _ _ [C] and _ _ [G] _ those little southern bible belt ladies, _ _ they [Gm] didn't like it.
_ [G] They made me pull this [C] song off the [G] tour. _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ Well I always [C] thought the girls would [Gm] break tables and do [C] something, but anyway, never the [G] less. _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] Here we go.
_ _ [C] _ I thought [G] I'd never sing this song [C] again, but _ [G] Jerry for you I'll [C] dust the cobwebs off of it and [Gm] lay my [C] conscience aside.
[G] _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ On [G] the _ [C] backside of Dallas, [G] and a dancey [C] ball, and a nice [G] scooby, she _ said.
[C] _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] And her trembling hand fumbled for another [C] king size filled _ [G] cigarette.
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [D] She closed her puffed smoke and settled back and looked across the [G] light blue haze.
[C] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [C] _ And from [G] the backside [C] of Dallas, [G] her mouth goes [C] bitten by the [G] other _ days.
[C] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ _
Meet me [C] in Dallas [G] on June the [D] _ 23rd, his letter [G] _
read.
_ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] On a _ greyhound [C] in this big [A] town she came to be with [C] him [G] just like he said.
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ [D] But _ suddenly he left her for reasons that she still don't [G] _ _
understand.
_ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ Here we go.
[C] _ And [G] on the backside [C] of Dallas, [G] a girl must earn [C] her way as [G] bad as she _ [C] can.
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ [G] It's a long [C] way to Dallas [G] for a modern kind of girl from [C] the middle of [G] _ Tennessee. _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ [G] And tenth grade [C] _ education [G] won't get you no [C] kind of job [G] here in Big D. _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
Hunger, [C] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
pains, and pride's a thing [C] that just don't go _ hand in [G] hand for _ long.
_ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ [C] _ And [G] on the backside [C] of Dallas, [G] a hungry small town [C] girl can [G] find a home.
_ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ [G] On the backside [C] of Dallas, [G] _ _
nervously she [C] takes [G] another _ pill.
_ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ [G] On the backside [C] of Dallas, [G] _ tonight like the [C] other night she [G] dreams her _ pill.
[C] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [D] She pays the man _ behind the bar [C] and leaves the change from a $20 [G] _ _
bill.
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] If you're ever [C] feeling awesome [G] and you wanna find [C] someone who [G] feels the [C] same.
_ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ She's [G] on the backside [C] of Dallas [G] where every taxi [C] driver _ [G] knows her _ [C] name.
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_ _ _ [C] _ She's [G] on the backside [C] of Dallas [G] where every taxi [C] _ driver [G] knows her _ name.
_ _ I want you to know that Jerry Foster did not [G] write that about JDC Rock.
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