Ride Through the Country Chords by Colt Ford, John Michael Montgomery

[Eb] _ [Fm] _ [A] Thank you.
[Db] How y'all [Ab] doing?
Yeah, my name is Cole Ford.
[Eb] I [Fm] just came here to do a little song for y'all
[Db] About [Ab] where I come from the way I see [Eb] it.
[Fm] I brought my buddy.
Mr.
John Michael Montgomery [Db] with me
[Ab] He's gonna play a little guitar sing a [Eb] little bit
[Fm] I'm gonna do a little something for y'all called [Db] ride through the country
[Ab] Let's go John
[Eb] [Fm] Down the road where the blacktop ends [Db] you can find [Ab] Cole Ford with all his [Eb] friends
We used to [Fm] grab a boat to fish it with cane poles.
[Db] What no [Ab] swimming pools just swimming holes
[Eb] We was dirt [Fm] road boy and came [Ab] switch rays
I don't came a long way since back in the day [Eb] been around the [Fm] world twice seen all 50 states [Db] a them thousand [Ab] dollar China
But love's a [Eb] paper plate.
There ain't [Fm] nothing wrong with the big city life [Db] for me
[Ab] I prefer them slow country nights [Eb] where I can [Fm] see the darkness come and then go
[Db] Most [Ab] folks is honest and they all speak slow.
[Eb] You can leave your [Fm] door open
Ain't nothing [Db] to happen most country [Ab] folks saying but I couldn't so I'm rapping
[Eb] I want to [Fm] show y'all where I come from and [Db] invite you [Ab] all down to any [Db] country
Damn, [Eb] that's for [Fm] my things and leave this [Db] something need [Ab] y'all understand.
I see a [Eb] lot of things [Fm] in my life
That's why I walk [Db] the line.
I'm [Ab] just a simple man and not [Eb] anything for [Fm] cheap
But all the scars music [Db] don't you [Ab] ever cry for me
Cuz [Eb] I ain't saying [Fm] where I'm from you always will come to [Db] take a ride to the
[Ab] Up _
[Eb] [Fm] dressed and gone by 5 [Db] a.m. He's country [Ab] and he's rapping
We gots to play him [Eb] folks been [Fm] waiting for someone like me [Ab] to give him some hot beats and spit that country
[Eb] My jeans [Fm] don't sag they fit and kind of tight got [Ab] on a white t-shirt.
No nothing but work [Eb] daylight [Fm] the dark
That's how with bread and [Db] I'm gonna keep [Ab] being country today.
I'm day [Eb] see country [Fm] folks
He's biscuits call [Ab] cat heads barbecue baked beans sweet tea and white bread
[Eb] We like the [Fm] fish and hunt ain't scared of a fight
[Db] Love the [Ab] good Lord and believe in doing right [Eb] got four-wheel [Fm] drive some got mud on them
[Db] You can keep your [Ab] Rolls Royce cuz baby we don't want them
[Eb] So now you [Fm] all know exactly who [Ab] I am and if you ain't into that I don't give a damn
[Eb] Before [Fm] I pack my things and leave this [Db] something need [Ab] y'all to understand I seen a [Eb] lot of things [Fm] in my life
That's why I walk [Db] the line
I'm [Ab] just a simple man and not [Eb] anything for [Ab] cheese filled with all the scars music don't you ever cry for me?
Cuz [Eb] I ain't saying [Fm] where I'm from you always will come to [Db] take a ride [Ab] to the
See [Eb] [Fm] me on your TV, but honey, [Db] that [Ab] don't mean a thing
You see [Eb] I'm still [Fm] that same old country boy and [Db] that's all [Ab] I'll ever be
[Eb] Sometimes [Fm] those bright lights blind me and make it hard [Ab] for me to see
[Eb] When I need [Fm] to be reminded [Db] I take a ride [Ab] to the car at [Eb] about
[Fm] 5 o'clock on Friday afternoon [Db] country boys [Ab] head down to the local saloon
[Eb] You welcome to [Fm] stop in and have a cold bottle [Db] big [Ab] city boys.
I'll stick up [Bb] supermodels
[Eb] We don't care [Fm] where you from as long as you polite [Db] cuz push [Ab] comes shoving every one of us a fight
[Eb] We [Fm] mostly easy like Sunday [Db] morning.
Oh coke [Ab] came here to give y'all fair warning
[Eb] Country [Fm] folks won't be pushed around and [Db] there's some of [Ab] us living in every town
[Eb] We believe [Fm] in the Bible and the USA [Db] work hard for [Ab] what you want to see American way
[Eb] Nobody [Fm] owe you nothing [Ab] close to earn you keep put in the hard days work get a good night's sleep
[Eb] I know [Fm] some of y'all think your coats kind of odd, [Db] but I'm loud [Ab] proud and country by the grace of God
[Eb] Yeah, or [Fm] I pack my things and leave this [Ab] something need y'all to understand.
I seen a [Eb] lot of things [Fm] in my lifetime
That's why I walk [Db] the line.
I'm [Ab] just a simple man and not [Eb] anything for [Fm] cheap
But all the scars you used [Db] to don't [Ab] you ever cry for [Cm] me?
Cuz I ain't saying [Fm] where from you always will come to [Db] take a ride [Ab] to the party _
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