Don Williams - Good Old Boys Like Me guitar chord

Good Old Boys Like Me

By Don Williams

Tabbed By Larry Mofle

rmofle@satx.rr.com

5/9/2005

Capo 2

G D C G C D

When I was a kid Uncle Remus’d put me to bed

G D C G C D

With a picture of Stonewall Jackson above my head

Em D

Then Daddy came in to kiss his little man

Em D

With gin on his breath and a Bible in his hand

C D

And he talked about honor and things I should know

C D

Then he'd stagger a little as he went out the door

Chorus:

G G/F# Em D C C/B Am D

I can still hear the soft southern winds in the live oak trees

G G/F# Em D C C/B Am D

And those Williams boys they still mean a lot to me, Hank and Tennessee

C D Em C

I guess we’re all gonna be what we’re gonna be

C D G

So what do you do with good ol' boys like me

Nothing makes a sound in the night like the wind does

But you ain’t afraid if you’re washed in the blood like I was

The smell of cape jasmine through the window screen

John R. and the Wolfman kept me company

By the light of the radio by my bed

With Thomas Wolfe whispering in my head

Chorus

When I was in school I ran with a kid down the street

And I watched him burn himself up on bourbon and speed

But I was smarter than most, and I could choose

Learned to talk like the man on the six o’clock news

When I was eighteen, Lord, I hit the road

But it really doesn't matter how far I go

Chorus

Yeah, what do you do with good ol' boys like me?