• Song:

    Birthday Boy

  • Artist:

    Drive-by Truckers

  • Album:

    The Big To-Do

CAPO 2

Intro: A/ G/ F/ C/ A/ G/
F5                             C5
   Which ones the birthday boy?
                  A5                 G5
she said I ain't got all night
What'd your mama name you?
You can call me what you like
Every skinny mystery gotta make it hard somehow
Sit your narrow ass down hot shot
I'll solve yours right now

You got a girlfriend don't you boy?
Nervous hands cant lie
Married men don't ask how much, single ones ain't buying
One day you got everything, next day it's all broke
Let miss Trixie sit up front
Let her wipe your nose(HOLD G FOR 2 BARS)

F5                                                 F5
Working for the money like you got eight hands
C5                              G5
Flat on your back under a mean old man
F5                          F5                                         C5
just thinking happy thoughts and breathing deep
D5                                     A5          G5
Between your mama's drive and daddy's belt
F5     C5                                       A5                     G5
It don't take smarts to learn to tune out what hurts more than helps

The pretty girls from the smallest towns
get remembered like storms and droughts
that old men talk about for years to come
I guess that's why they give us names
F5              C5                A5
so a few old men can say they so us rain
                 G5                     A5     G5  
when we were young

Which ones the birthday boy?
she said I aint got all night
What'd your mama name you?
You can call me what you like
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