Billy Edd Wheeler - Ode To The Little Brown Shack Out Bac guitar chord

Ode to the Little Brown Shack Out Back

(Billy Edd Wheeler)

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They passed an ordinance in the town

They said we'd have to tear it down

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That little old shack out back so dear to me

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Though the Health Department said

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It's day was over and dead

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It will stand forever in my memory

Chorus

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Don't let 'em tear, that little brown building down

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Don't let 'em tear, that precious building down

C Am

Don't let 'em tear that dear old building down

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There's not another like it in the country or the town

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It was not so long ago

That I went tripping through the snow

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Out to that house behind my old hound dog

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Where I would sit me down to rest

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Like a snowbird on his nest

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And I'd read that Sears and Roebuck catalog

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Oh I would hum a happy tune

Peepin' through the quarter moon

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As my daddy's kin had done so much before

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It was in that quiet spot, daily cares could be forgot

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And it gave the same relief to rich and poor

Chorus

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Don't let 'em tear, that little brown building down

D7 G

Don't let 'em tear, that precious building down

C Am

Don't let 'em tear that dear old building down

G C D7 G

There's not another like it in the country or the town

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Now it was not a castle fair

But I could dream a future there

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Build my castles to the yellow jacket's drone

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I could orbit around the sun, fight with Gen,ral Washington

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Or be a king upon a golden throne

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It wasn't fancy built at all;

We had newspapers on the wall

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It was air-conditioned in the winter time

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Oh it was just a humble hut but it's door was never shut

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And a man could get inside without a dime

Chorus

G

Don't let 'em tear, that little brown building down

D7 G

Don't let 'em tear, that precious building down

C Am

Don't let 'em tear that dear old building down

G C D7 G

There's not another like it in the country or the town