Intro: GDC x2
Verse 1GDC
Me and daddy ride around all day shooting doves off a line in a Chevrolet.
GDC
Old lab would jump out the back and fetch 'em up.
GDC
We'd drive for miles and miles and never once hit blacktop or change the dial.
GDC
One little country station was all there was.
EmDC
Checking gates, fixing fence rows that's how my story goes.
Chorus:
EmDCD
If you want to know the real me, just turn the page in my dirt road diary.
EmDCD
It's right there for you to see, every kiss, every beer, every cotton field memory.
GDCD
Tan legs and some Dixie land delight, ridin' round, windows down on a summer night.
EmDC (strum once) GDC
I was there, that was me. Its right here in my dirt road diary.
Verse 2:
GDC
I remember when I turned sixteen; I got a license and some gasoline.
GDC
Ain't a curve or a straight away we didn't fly down.
GDC
If wasn't the boys it was me and her by fire in a field or down by the river.
GDC
Every inch of that county was sacred ground.
EmC
Wish I knew where that old truck was.
G
If it could talk it could tell on us.
Chorus:
EmDCD
If you want to know the real me, just turn the page in my dirt road diary.
EmDCD
It's right there for you to see, every beer, every kiss, every cotton field memory.
GDCD
Tan legs and some Dixie land delight, ridin' round, windows down on a summer night.
EmCGD
I was there, that was me. Its right here in my dirt road diary.
Bridge:
EmC
It ain't a book underneath my bed;
EmDC
Just a dusty memory lane in my head.
GDC x2
GDC
Tan legs and some Dixie land delight, ridin' round, windows down on a summer night.
EmDC
I was there, that was me. Its right here in my dirt road diaries.
EmDC (strum once)
Just ride around this little town and you'll see how I wrote my dirt road diary.
This arrangement for the song is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the song. You may only use this for private study, scholarship, or research.