Red Dirt Town

Capo II
Intro:  D D G D A G D

D
I grew up poor on an old dirt lot,

half a mile from the nearest black 
top
   G
my daddy got it cheap use to be a 
land fill,
D
he helped to buy it on the G.I. Bill
D
life was slow on the reservation,

there on the edge of the Sac and Fox
 Nation
G                                 
watchin the cars go by as the sun 
     D
went down,
      A                         G 
and I dreamed about a life far 
                      D
away from this red dirt town


I remember the day I turned 
eighteen,
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I hitched a ride to the Dairy Queen
it was right across the street from 
the old bus stop,
mama begged me not to leave but I 
could not stop
ticket in hand and ready for 
adventure,
felt like a slave released from 
indenture
I'd come this far, too far to turn 
back now
and I got away as fast as I could 
from this red dirt town

Bm                 G
Gets in your blood, gets on your 
boots
D
it's hard to shake the dirt from 
your roots
Bm                        G      
you can tell by the way I look 
             A
and the way I sound
 G                    D
I come from a red dirt town

I was headed for the promise land,
the big city's where I'd make my 
stand
by the time I reached the coast I 
was gatherin dust,
after three long days on a Grey 
Hound bus
But, the grass didn't seem as green,
 as it did on the movie screen
those streets of gold were boarded 
up and run down,
and I missed my life back home in 
that red dirt town

Chorus

Instrumental:  F#m G D F#m G A

Wasn't long till I was down and out,
guess Mama knew what she was talkin 
about
when she said there's nothin worse 
than bein alone,
seventeen hundred miles away from 
home
When I couldn't last another day,
I made the hardest call I ever had 
to make
Mama picked up the phone, and that's
 when I just broke down
and she said son you can always come
 home to this red dirt town

(Chorus)

Theres a walkdown at the chorus to 
go to the Bm, and the intros not to 
hard to
figure out but I didn't tab it out 
here.