Mud  by Whiskey Myers
Key: DD | Capo: 0fr |  Left-Handed 

    


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Oh  Lord  won't you let me stay in the place where I was born?
D
In the fields Granddaddy tilled and all my seeds are sown
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Ain't no love for a poor dirt farmer  genuine son of the south
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And the water's high and the bills are too and the levy tumbling down
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Daddy owed the banker man
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So  we was drowning before the flood
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That river washed us all away
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Left us right here in the mud
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Yeah  in the mud
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We built this house upon the Mississippi back in 1879
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Over a hundred years my family's been here barely scraping by
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We just some good old country folks just trying to weather the G
storm
D
How we gonna pay when the interest rates done got higher than the
corn?
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Ain't no man gonna take it away
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'Cause it's deep down in my blood
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Step across that old property line
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And you'll die
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Right here in the mud
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Yeah  in the mud
[Solo]
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Verse
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Who's this creeping through the sticks
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Let me talk at 'em with my thirty ought six
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A couple city guys with suits and ties
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Bet they can't feel this crosshair right between their eyes
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I got no place to go and no place to run
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Just a dirt farmer's boy with his Granddaddy's gun
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Step across that line  I'm gonna tell you  son
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We're all gonna die right here in the mud 
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   Yeah  in the mud
Outro
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