Bates Jeff

Bates Jeff - That'll Get You Ten guitar tab

INTRO: D C G D D C G C-G-D

D C

Just two years and seven days

G D

Between me and legal age

D C

Just one clerk in that liquor store

G D

Between me and that front door

A

My coat had deep pockets and he probably had a gunn

C G A7

Well I reckon he was watchin' 'cause he said son

N/C

That'll get you one

CHORUS:

D C G C G

One year pickin' up trash on the highway

D C G C G

One phone call to hear your mama's heart break

C G A7

If you think it's worth it don't let me stop you son

N/C D

'Cause that'll get you one

BREAK: D C G C-G-D

D C

She had a beer in her hand and she was comin' on strong

G D

And I was just this close to takin' her home

C

Things were lookin' good when we left that bar

G D

'Til she stopped and said that's my car

A

That's when I saw the sticker that said Franklin County High

C G A7

Well I didn't even kiss the girl goodbye

N/C

'Cause that'll get you five

CHORUS:

D C G C G

Five years bustin' up rocks on a chain gang

D C G C G

Poundin' and a-paintin' state plates in Sing Sing

C G A7

Wonderin' if I'm ever gonna make it out alive

D C G C G

And those tan legs might get me thinkin' 'bout a jailbreak

D C G C G

Askin' my mom to slip a file in a bunt cake

C G A7

Those bloodhounds'd probably haul me back in

N/C D

And that's another ten

BREAK (2x)

D C

Boss man climbin' down my back

G D

Won't cut me one inch of slack

D C

'Tween that steel beam and the ground below

G D

It'd be a nasty fall if the wind should blow

A

I don't see a witness, and we're up awful high

C G A7

If he should lose his balance he might not survive

N/C

But that'll get you life

CHORUS:

D C G C G

Pumpin' that iron with the boys on the cell block

D C G C G

Tyin' my soap to a rope so it don't drop

C G A7

'Til some old boy thinks my biceps look nice

D C G C G

Writin' to the governor and beggin' for a pardon

D C G C G

Thinkin' that's how Merle Haggard got started

C G A7

Swappin' ciagarettes for mama's apple pie

D C G C G

Lookin' thru the glass and talkin' to my lawyer

D C G C G

Memorizin' "Moby Dick" and "Tom Sawyer"

C G A7

Tellin' the parole board I've learned wrong from right

N/C D C G

Yeah that'll get you life

C-G-D D C G C-G-D

Yeah that'll get you life

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