Ive always looked at you from a distance as something I could never have
And Ive realized my way of existence could one day be what holds you back
And lookin in your eyes can make me smile and [Bm/A]still feel sad
Cause youve got one big bright shinin future, baby I cant give you that

Chorus:
Cause Im a dead ender, big spender, Ive been known to get on a bender
Yeah that might be me but Ill always be in love with you
And Im a high flier, live wire, tight rope walker and a rainbow rider
Yeah that might be me but Ill always be in love with you
Ill always be in love with you

I might drift down to someplace warm and find a hideaway do the island thing
Ive always wanted my own private ocean to sit beside and float my dreams
Maybe someday Ill find that secret the whole worlds lookin for
Girl if I had you there aint nothin anywhere that Id want anymore

Chorus

And lookin in your eyes can make me smile and still feel sad
Cause youve got one big bright shinin future, baby I cant give you that

Intro: Bm A G Bm A G

v.1 The lake at night is still and black
The water’s smooth like polished glass
You’ve heard the tales so it’s time to go
Gonna take you back into pirates cove
v.2 Got a sure ol’ 10 horse Evinrude
And a 12 foot jon boat to carry the brew
A couple of steaks and a big ol’ knife
My old ghost is comin’ back to life

chorus:
You could say I know the way by heart
Through the stumps and in the dark
There’s one way in and that’s by boat
That’ll get you back into pirates cove

v.3 A trail of smoke trails through the trees
Fire down low and there ain’t no breeze
Just the cottonmouths and the copperheads
And for some strange reason I fit in (repeat chorus)

(instrumental)

v.4 Well it’s a different world when you get back here
The dancin’ shadows disappear
The memories they’ll come and go
Someday I’ll stay in pirates cove (repeat chorus)

(instrumental)
(chorus)
(instrumental)…..fade

– Play this bass run: Holding G crd. down, play second fret and
fourth fret on A string and then go into your D crd.

All of these are in Barre chord format (it just sounds better that way)

^ pulloff

Intro: G F C (X2)

VS1 G F C G F C G F C
Little white house on the edge of town. Shady front porch a few

acres of ground. A big brass bed. big enough for two. Where everynight

I’ve been dreaming ‘bout you.

Ch.
Maybe it’s the truth. Maybe it’s my imagination. All I know is what

my hearts sayin’ about me and you. Cause your one in a lifetime honey

like nothing I’ve ever seen and when I’m looking in to your eyes I

could believe anything.

The lead guitar plays this twice with the intro chords.

e——————————————–
b—-5-8-8-5-8-8——5-8-8-5-8-8—5-5——
g—————————————5-7–

at approx. :30 sec the slide steel guitar does this.

e—-
b-81
g—-

at approx : 42 the elec. guitar does this.

e—————–7-10-10-7-7————–
b–1/3-1/5-1/7-10————-10-10-7-7-3/5
g——————————————
e-7^5-7^5———
b———7-3/5—
g—————–

That’s about it but most of the stuff in there I think
can figure out if you really try. Write me with Questions
or comments. Thanks.

Well I know my place, and I’m not ashamed to say it
No darlin’, it even makes me proud
If there’s one place I know, where I’m never alone
It’s where I feel most at home.

Chorus:
D (Stop) D
It’s in a room full of real live Genuine Rednecks
Bonafide backwood misfits
Goodtimin’ hillbilly lunatics
With cold beer, and jukebox music
I don’t like crowds, but this one’s mine
G (Stop) D G D G
Cause everybody here is, Genuine Rednecks.

Well darlin’ right or wrong, where I do belong
It don’t come with a crystal chandelier
I’d have to go out on a limb, to say I fit in
With all the social high class atmosphere
Why we could slip out the back door, and find my pickup truck
Darlin’ I’m just wishin’ I was, in the middle of.

Chorus:

Now there may be those, who look down their nose
At the company I keep
Oh but just to let you know, as good people go
If you don’t like them you won’t like me
You might find the front door, propped open wide
But you’ll know you’ve been somewhere, when youve been inside.

Chorus:

Good time, bonafide, real live, Genuine, full blooded Rednecks.

Well they took me home in the back of a checker cab
After somebody took a chair cross the back of my head
My mama said bring him on in and when they told her where I’d been
She said why can’t people just get along

Well mama never said a word as she patched my head
I figured she wasn’t happy with me gettin’ her out of bed
I said mama I hope you ain’t mad, she said come on we’re going back
Hey why can’t people just get along

Chorus:
Why can’t people just get along
What a world it would be if we could all just have fun
‘Cause it don’t do nobody right when it comes down to a fight
Hey why can’t people just get along

Now when I got trouble ain’t no one I’d rather have
Than my mama next to me with a broken bottle in her hand
She went in swingin’ and when she got through
Everybody saw her point of view she said
Why can’t people just get along

Chorus

Guitar solo

Well now things don’t always run smooth in a honky tonk
And some nights somebody’s gonna rub somebody wrong
And in those isolated incidents, we all loose our common sense
Hey why can’t people just get along

Chorus

Intro E B A E A

I remember the night my dad stopped the car
And got out in the rain
Changed a blown out tire on a car
For a family with out of state plates
I said dad did we know those folks
As they waved and drove out of site
He just smiled as he started the car
He said son not ‘til tonight

Chorus
You see the road you leave behind you
Is another road you’re gonna have to come back down
It’s just the way this big old world turns ‘round
You’ll find somehow somewhere someplace sometime
You gotta go back down the road you leave behind

Fill In E B A

Stuck out on the highway one night
Many years gone by
Had the hood of my truck pulled up
My ol’ gas tank was dry
Some ol’ guy gettin’ off on the night shift
Pulled up to check on me
He said I been in your shoes before son
And it’s no place to be

Chorus
You see the road you leave behind you
Is another road you’re gonna have to come back down
It’s just the way this big old world turns ‘round
You’ll find somehow somewhere someplace sometime
You gotta go back down the road you leave behind

I said what do I owe you friend you could easily have passed me by
He said next time it might be me son you don’t owe me a dime

Chorus
You see the road you leave behind you
Is another road you’re gonna have to come back down
It’s just the way this big old world turns ‘round
You’ll find somehow somewhere someplace sometime
You gotta go back down the road you leave behind

Outro
Down the road you leave behind
The road you leave behind
It’s that old road you leave behind
Fade Out