You can here my engine hummin’, comin’ rumblin’ up the road.
And I know when you meet me at the fence line in the sunshine you’ll be Am
lookin’ fine in your bandanna and your blue jeans.
Baby, would you ride with me.
So climb up in the seat put your bare feet up tap along with the radio.
Girl we can go kick around downtown with the top down we can Am
follow this county road wherever it leads.
Baby, would you ride with me.
(Chorus)
Take my hand, say I do.
G EmD
I want to go down this road with you.
High and low, thick and thin.
Am~~B C
Forevers just around the bend.
Am~~~~~~~~~B C G
And we’ll be right where we want to be, baby, would you ride with me.
You know life is a bull when the gate its pulled and you better be holding on tight.
Its a roller coaster, flippin’ over.
It’s a sailboat on the tide, on the wide open seas.
Baby, would you ride with me.
(Chorus)
Break: D
Well I’ve thinking all day that life is a highway we all travel on.
The one that I want to see sittin’ in the seat with me when I
make my dreams come true, its you, its you. And it feels so fine when you
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Take my hand, say I do.
G EmD
I want to go down this road with you.
High and low, thick and thin.
Am~~B C
Forevers just around the bend.
Am~~~~~~~~~B C G
And we’ll be right where we want to be, baby, would you ride with me.

Come on and take a ride with me.

Drop D Tuning

There’s a Walmart Super Center in the field where I use to bale my daddy’s hay
Where we use to ride our horses now sits a brand new cafe
The old house where my granddad was born was torn down in 1973
They’re makin off with everything that’s left, so whats left of Texas for me

Chorus:
They’re taking God’s name out of the schools and Robert Earl Keen right off the radio
They’re taking John Wayne out of Hollywood, replaced him with some broke back picture show
And ol’ Waylon would sure be mad as hell if he knew they cuffed ol’ Willy for smokin’
weed
Ah they’re makin off with everything that’s left, so what’s left of Texas for me

Well there use to be some honkey tonk right down there beside that old town square
That’s where I had my first dance as I ran my fingers through her auburn hair
It was torn down to build a dealership some foreign car nobody’d ever seen
Yeah they’re makin off with everything that’s left, so whats left of Texas for me

Chorus

Ending:
They’re taking God’s name out of the schools and Gary P Nunn right off the radio
They’re taking John Wayne out of Hollywood, replaced him with some broke back picture show
And ol’ Waylon would sure be mad as hell if he knew they cuffed ol’ Willy for smokin’
weed
Ah they’re makin off with everything that’s left, so whats left of Texas for me
Yeah they’re makin off with everything that’s left, so whats left of Texas for me

Here’s the truth, I refuse to argue with you baby
can’t tell you what to do but I’m not some johnny come late
So there’s the door you can walk right through
Cause tonight I don’t care about losing you

Oh tonight I don’t care about trying to make things right
and I’m just not in the mood and I’m damn sure not gonna fight tonight
and if this is some kind of premonition of how it’s gonna be with you
I’m out, I’m [Dm/E]done baby I’m through ‘cause tonight I don’t care about you

So there it is, that’s all that needs to be said baby
I don’t care about your friends and what they seem to think that you need lately
If you don’t want to believe me, I guess I’m every bit of the jerk that you say I am
but tonight I don’t give a damn

Chorus

Bridge:
Well it’s not to say that tomorrow morning I won’t change my mind
but tonight you better listen to my warning I need a little time

Chorus

there it is that’s all that needs to be said baby

Verse I
Once I had me a woman and everything was goin’ my way, she thought I had hung the moon and she
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had an angels face, till one night I pulled in my drive and somethin was

G. D A. D
goin’ on, there was a long bed ford in my spot that I damn sure didn’t own—- well I walked up to the screen door an I heard this awful noise,
I moved onto the livin’ room and there set my two boys I said wheres mama an they both pointed to the bedroom down the hall
. I aint never been a fightin man but red was all I saw…

Chorus:
You see brother cause I’ve been down
G. D
an I’ve been out an I know how it feels to stand up for what you think is right
an get knocked off your heels, an if
murderin a man who didn’t understand
G. D
just what she meant to me means I’ll
rot here in this cell for eternity, Well
G. F. F. D
then Mr. I am as guilty as can be.

Verse II (Same as Verse I)
Well I wish I had me a picture of what his face looked like
When I Kicked in my bedroom door and raised my .45
I Said I aint the kind to hurt a woman an I hope you understand
but somebodies got to die today son it looks like you’re the man

Chorus II:
You see brother cause I’ve been down
G. D
an I’ve been out an I know how it feels to stand up for what you think is right
an get knocked off your heels, an if
murderin a man who didn’t understand
G. D
just what she meant to me means I’ll
rot here in this cell for eternity, Well
G. F. F. D
then Mr. I am as guilty as can be.

Verse III (Same as Verse 1)
That’s what I told that Jury That’s what I told that judge
An I knew there’d be hell to pay if I fulfilled my grudge
see I don’t my these prison bars tucked off in these pine trees
One thing about that ol’ cheatin’ woman she won’t cheat again on me

Chorus III/Outro:
You see brother cause I've been down
G. D
an I’ve been out an I know how it feels to stand up for what you think is right
an get knocked off your heels, an if
murderin a man who didn’t understand
G. D
just what she meant to me means I’ll
rot here in this cell for eternity, Well
G. F. F. D
then Mr. I am as guilty as can be.

Go ahead and lock me up boys I’m guilty anyway…

Saturday night and the moon is out
Just shinin’ over top of the pines
I’m headin’ on down to my baby’s house
Gonna take her on a midnight ride
Now I’m on these backroads winding up at a Kickapoo Creek
Dancin’ and singin’ to some good ol’ boys like me

Baby, there’s a shooting star,
That was for me and you.
So, hold me tight, make that wish, and pray that it comes true.
I ain’t sure of much,
But this I know –
I got a diamond in my pocket and my baby’s got a heart of gold.

I brought along a little courage and Coleman cooler, Just to help me out
My hands are shaking like a Cambridge rattler,
Nothing’s gonna save me now
Mind as well jump in head first, lay it all on the line
What am I worrying about? Never gonna be a more perfect time

Baby, there’s a shooting star,
That was for me and you.
So, hold me tight, make that wish, and pray that it comes true.
I ain’t sure of much,
But this I know –
I got a diamond in my pocket and my baby’s got a heart of gold.

(instrumental interlude)

Well I didn’t have money for a Broadway show,
but the crickets are singing to the radio,
and we’ve got tickets –
on the very front row.

Baby, there’s a shooting star,
That was for me and you.
So, hold me tight, make that wish, and pray that it comes true.
I ain’t sure of much,
But this I know –
I got a diamond in my pocket and my baby’s got a heart of gold.
I got a diamond in my pocket and my baby’s got a heart of gold.

Capo on 1st,

I wish I’d been born in a different day,
Cowboys like ole’ Gus McCrae

I’d just saddle up and ride away,
I wish Id been born in a different day.

Well, I wish i could of lived in a different time
Back when Willie and Waylon walked the line
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its an Era long gone and it seems a crime…
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I wish i could live in a different time

Now I'm stuck out here in no mans land..
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Just an ace of spades in diamond flush hand
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and I still do the best i can to fit in
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but timing ain’t never really been my friend..

Solo
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well i wish you could of seen me in a different light,
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oh i wish i could of been her shining knight
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but ill always be a friend in her eyes,

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lord, I wish you could of seen me in a different light….

Now I’m stuck out here in no mans land..
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Just an ace of spades in diamond flush hand
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and I still do the best i can to fit in
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but timing ain’t never really been my friend..

I wish I’d been born in a different day,
with Cowboys like ole’ Gus McCrae
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and I’d just saddle up and ride away,
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I wish Id been born in a different day.

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