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From: "Jim and Donna Lawrence" 
Subject: a/anderson_john/takin_the_country_back.crd
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 14:59:18 -0400

Song: Takin' the Country Back
CD: Takin' the Country Back - Mercury Records - 1997
Sung By: John Anderson
Written By: Curtis Wright and Marty Stuart
Let's take the country back!!

  Intro: D  C  G (x2)?

   D (xx0232@1)                                                C (x32010@1)              GD
  Goin' down to Muscle Shoals * Where the swamp water rhythm
                                                           C (x32010@1)            GD
  flows * Live the only way I know * I'm just a common man * Headed
                                        C (x32010@1)             G (320003@1)               D (xx0232@1) down to Texas way * Where the honky tonk heroes play * Gonna find
                                   C (x32010@1)                  GD
  that lost highway * That's where I'll make a stand *

Chorus:
    D (xx0232@1)                                      C (x32010@1)       G (320003@1)           D (xx0232@1) Takin' the country back * It's high time we face the facts * Heart and
                                                           CG          D (xx0232@1) soul slippin' through the cracks * We're takin' the country back *
                                              C (x32010@1)            GD
  Takin' the country back * We're not sure just where it's at * We've
                                                 CG          D (xx0232@1) got to get it back on track * We're takin' the country back *

  (same chords as above)
  Bright lights and limousines * Fame and fortune I have seen * Still

  searchin' for that dream * It's callin' me back home * Down to earth

  where the music's real * Singin' 'bout what the people feel * Timeless

  truth, now that's the deal * We got to pass in on, y'all * (Chorus x 3)

  (after 3 chorus)
   D (xx0232@1)       C (x32010@1)           G (320003@1)                D (xx0232@1) C (x32010@1)             GD
  We're takin' the country back * Takin' the country on back *


  Transcribed by: M. Lawrence - 9/24/98