• Song:

    Get Downtown

  • Artist:

    Drive-by Truckers

  • Album:

    The Big To-Do

INTRO : C5  

C5
Kim said, "Jimmy, you better get yourself up
F5
Off of that raggedy couch
G5
I'm too pretty to work, and I'm tired of you
F5             G5
Uglying up my house"
C5
Jimmy said, "Baby, the guys at the top
          F5
Are doing bad as the guys on the street"
G5
Kim said, "The guys at the top ain't about to be
F5                  G5
Paying alimony to me"

CHORUS:
       C5
Get downtown
                 F5
See what you can find
         G5                            C5
Put your face in someone's that ain't mine

Looks like the unemployment blues
    F5
Are wearing out your house shoes
G5                                C5
Baby left when your boots came untied

SOLO

Jimmy said, "Baby, ain't you seen the news?
It's as far as the eyes can see
Foreigners are coming in and doing our jobs
For half of what they would've paid me"
"You mean half of what you would've made for
Something you've never done
Sounds like the bright side to all this, Jimmy
Is your asking price went up
Now get downtown"

CHORUS

SOLO

Jimmy said, "Baby, if I work for your daddy
It's worse than being his son"
Kim didn't like what he said one bit
And it didn't surprise him none
She said, "My daddy took good enough care
Of my mama, she hardly had to say a thing"
Jimmy said, "That's part of what's wrong"
Kim said, "Don't you say another damn thing
Just get downtown"
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