G5                         D5 
Cold Lone Star beer and a half pack of smokes 
       E5                           C5 
Oh, is all that they pay me for the songs that I wrote 
G5                           D5 
Here in this bar, well, the owner can?t pay  
        E5                     C5 
Cause nobody came to see me or hear me play 
 
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D5                      E5 
Writin these songs and singing all these lines 
C5             D5   
Over and over hundreds of times  
    G5                D5 
Ill never be pretty I wont get far 
     C5                        D5            G5 
Just writing these songs on a pawn shop guitar 
 
 
 
Drove on down to Houston for my next show 
Sometimes don?t it surprise you how the wheels turn slow 
Made it back home without a dollar to pay 
For my gas on down to Stephenville the very next day 
 
 
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No I won?t marry a Dixie chick or a movie star 
But I?ll keep on playin? my pawn shop guitar