Chords for Mike Ryan "Girls I Date" LIVE on The Texas Music Scene

[G] What's up everybody?
My name is Mike Ryan, and this is the Texas music scene with my little buddy Ray Vince
Yes, I think it's safe to call Mike Ryan's [D] album bad reputation a breakout
He's [C] definitely ascended to a new level here in the [D] Texas music [G] scene
Hard work pays off [C] people and Mike is a great example [G] of it.
Here's his story behind girls
I'd date this latest album started when I signed a publishing deal with Seagal back in
_ _ 2013 and I wasn't really preparing for an album.
I was just trying to write as many songs as I could and
We we got
15 or 16 [D] songs
written and [C] demoed and then
picked the 10 [Dm] best [G] ones out of those 15 [B] and
[C] girls I date is a
[G] song I wrote that one with Brian Anderson and
Christie Bois and
It's kind of a southern man's [F#] guide [D] to a [C] girlfriend just
[G] Not necessarily saying what he's looking for in a girl
But what a girl is gonna have to put up with if she's gonna hang around with him, so it's kind of a fun [F#] to
_ _ _ [G#] _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _
[F#] _ _ _ _ _
Don't _ [G#] _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _
_ _ _ know three [G#] piece to some old jeans and a new [B] pair of boots a clean shirt that's dressed [F#] enough for me _ _
_ Don't know new [G#] Cadillac I drive a truck with a dog [B] in the back.
I got them both in [F#] 2003
_ Got [D#m] an old [C#] guitar
[B] [D#m] Learn [G#] how to play
Hey [D#] Merle [C#] [B] Haggard, and [A#] I ain't [G#] George today
But [B] I'm close [C#] enough for the girls [F#] I date _ _ _ _
[F#m] _ _ Six pack and a box of [G#] red wine and barbecue and a bag of [B] poor brides a can of worms and two [F#] fish _ _
Lakeside with a tailgate [G#] down nobody for miles [B] around we're jumping if it ain't [F#] too
_ Some [D#m] _ [C#]
[B] girls will [A#m] probably [G#] say that's [D#] not [C#] romantic.
[B] Well, [G#] maybe _ _
_ [B] But it's close [C#] enough for the girls [F#] I date
Well, [C#] I'm [B] just an [F#] ordinary Southern man
[C#] Nobody's [F#] gonna change me cuz I am what I am.
[C#] I wanna [B] find a girl and [F#] settle down
[D#m] But _ [G#] _
that's still a few [C#] years away, oh [B] that's close [C#] enough for the girls [F#] I date
_ _ [G#] _ _ _ [F#] _
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ She might be a blonde [G#] brunette.
I'm not sure cuz I ain't [B] found it yet.
Oh, but there's one [F#] thing I know
We're gonna live way back [G#] in woods and no neighbors no [B] neighborhood a dead end off on old [F#] dirt road
_ [D#m] May not sound [B] like [A#] my [G#] real estate _
[D#m] The closest [C#] [B] town's 30 [A#] [G#] miles away
_ [B] But that's close enough for [C#] the girls I [F#] date
_ Well, [C#] I'm [B] just an [F#] ordinary Southern man
[C#] _ [B] Nobody's gonna change [F#] me cuz I am what I am.
[C#] I wanna [B] find a girl and [F#] settle down
[D#] But _ [G#] _
that's still a few [C#] years away, _ [B] oh that's close [C#] enough for the girls [F#] I date
_ _ [G#] _ Oh, [F#] that's close enough for the girls I date
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _
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