Chords for Susan McCann | Big Tom Is Still The King

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_ [B] _ _ The ballrooms in this country [E] are living proof [B] today
Of a man who's now a legend from a window to [F#] Galway
_ [E] We love our country music, [B] to us it's everything
It don't matter what they tell you, [F#] Big Tom is [B] still the king
With the air-pitched excitement, [E] punking music on our [B] minds
I'd drive one hundred miles to hear that voice so [F#] warm and kind
[E] And I can still call now, the [B] first time I heard him [F#] sing
[B] I'll be proud to be from Blaney, where [F#] Big Tom is still [B] the king
_ [E] You can have your weight on Jenny's [B] or Nashville's Charlie Pryor
They boast of all their superstars, but for us it's Tom [F#] McBride
[B] Oh Nashville is so far away, [E] it scares me, [B] me's a pain
But when you're in all that, [F#] Big Tom is still [B] the king
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[F#] _ _ [B] _ _ _ time you're down in a witch-horde, [E] or Westin or [B] Ohio
Don't need to ask them who's the king that chose Big Tom [F#] long ago
_ You can [E] ask the stars in our land, [B] they say he's got the swing
They'd be the first to tell you, [F#] Big Tom is [B] still the king
_ You can have your weight on Jenny's or Nashville's Charlie Pryor
They boast of all their superstars, but for us it's [F#] Tom _ McBride
Oh [B] Nashville is so far [E] away, it scares me, [B] me's a pain
But when you're in all that, [F#] Big Tom is [B] still the king
_ But when you're in all that, [F#] Big Tom is [B] still the king _ _ _
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