Chords for Travis Meadows "Good Country People"

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_ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] I can't do that lick like [C] we did on the record.
I can either do [Em] that, [C] _
_ _ _ [E] _ [C] _ _ _
but I can't sing [A] it at the same time, so you gotta [C] do it like this. _
_ _ Wrote this for Levi Lowry. _ _
Levi _ _ is _ _ not only a great friend, but an incredible writer, a great artist, _ and I love him like family.
He's a good dude. _
_ _ However crooked a family that may look. _
We were talking one night, and I told him I'd been reading a lot of Flannery O'Connor,
and I said, man, that woman is really sick in the head, _ _ and I love it a lot.
Really dark, and I just love the way that she uses the English language from a southern perspective. _
_ And so I told him I had this idea, _ and so between our two families and a couple of friends
in the neighborhood, that's about all we needed to write this.
I told him I was hoping that it would turn out kind of like if the Cold Brothers wrote
country music, _ _ and this is what we came up with. _
And don't even look down your snoop like you ain't got none of this in your family, because
I know good and well you got them.
And if you're not it, it's sitting close to you. _ _ _ _
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[G] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ We keep our secrets in our own [G] backyard.
_ [C] We disregard what we don't regard.
It ain't all that [G] hard.
[Cm] We're just good _ [C] country people. _ _ _ _
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I bet her old firm man had a wooden leg.
Only man to pull a thing in his hand.
He threatened to leave she'd hide his prosthetic, he'd hop [G] off pathetic and mad.
[C] He used to fly planes down to Miami.
Told us all the planes just crashed.
They never found the plane, never found the body, [G] but the legs hangin' high in the barn
at the [C] back.
It is what it is and we are who we are.
We keep our secrets in [A] our own backyard.
She killed him.
[C] We disregard what we don't regard.
It [G] ain't all that hard.
_ [Cm] We're just good _ [C] _ country people.
That's right. _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [Cm] _
[C] When _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ [C] our God got it right when he made us all, but the wires got crossed in a few. _
One man's strange is another man's normal, whatever normal [G] means to you.
[C] We wear our pride like April Christmas lights on our crooked family tree.
We're all pieces of hearts so bless your heart.
If that ain't what [G] you see.
[C] Cause it is what it is and we are who we are.
[G] _ _ _ [F] Yeah we all got [C] secrets in our own backyard.
You wanna raise your drink [G] up on that one. _
[C] We disregard what we don't regard.
_ _ [G] _
[Cm] We're just good _ [C] _ country people.
_ _ [Eb] We're just good [G] _
[C] country people.
That's right. _ _ _
_ _ _ We got prize winning fried chicken in our rundown shed. _ _ _ _
Uncle Danny's cooking meth in a tub out back. _
_ _ Gretchen drinks liquor from a coffee cup.
_ _ _ So the neighbors don't know that she drinks too much. _ _ _ _ _
Gretchen's got a camel burning from her lip.
_ _ _ Nobody knows whose baby's riding on her hip. _ _ _
And I could go on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on.
_ _ And that's just my family. _ _
[Cm] And it's good [C] for [G] country [C] people. _ _ _ _ _ _