Gotta Be Me

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[Verse 1]
C
I’m a long country mile from being 
in style, dirty hat and cowboy boots
C
I cut my teeth on them old outlaw 
songs my daddy used to listen to
C                   F F# G      
Guess it’s in my genes, I gotta be 
   C
me

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[Verse 2]
C
Yeah, I say what I think, sometimes 
I drink and when I do I drink too 
much
C
I wind up on my back, eye shining 
black and I know it’s all because
C               F F# G          
Bad as it might be, hey I gotta be 
   C
me

[CHORUS]
C       F
You can wine me up and dine me, you 
can polish up and shine me
        C
But the real thing is goin’ shine 
through
         D          F#/D     
It ain’t always pretty but the 
  D         F#/D        G
cowboy in me couldn’t change if he 
wanted to

[BRIDGE: C]

[Verse 3]
C
Yeah, I had a girl, her name was 
Pearl; I think she’s up in Arkansas
C                                 
She raised her voice and gave me a
 choice ‘tween singing in a 
                  F
honkytonk or a j.o.b
    F#         G               C
Ha, as you can see, I gotta be me

[CHORUS]
      C       F
Yeah, you can wine me up and dine 
me, you can polish up and shine me
        C
But the real thing is goin’ shine 
through
         D          F#/D     
It ain’t always pretty but the 
  D         F#/D        G
cowboy in me couldn’t change if he 
wanted to

[BRIDGE: C, G, C]

[Verse 4]
C
Hey I’m a rusty old truck you see at
 front ‘tween the Lexus and the Coup
 de Ville
C
A one of a kind that some try to 
find, some are hoping that never 
will
C               F F# G         
Still I do my thing, ‘cause I 
        C
gotta be me
C                F            F#
Yeah, like it or not, this is 
    G
all I got
           C
I gotta be me           OUTRO: C 
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