Simple Man performed by Charlie Daniels Band transcribed by Phillip Taylor E5 D5 I ain't nothing but a simple man, call me a redneck, I reckon that I am. A5 E5 But there's things goin' on that make me mad down to the core. I have to D5 work like a dog to make ends meet. There's crooked politicians and crime in the A5 E5 street and I'm madder than hell and I ain't gonna take it no more. We tell our D5 kids to just say no and then some panty waist judge lets a drug dealer go and A5 he slaps him on the wrist and he turns him back out on the town. Well, if I E5 D5 had my way with people sellin' dope, I take a big tall tree and a short piece of A5 E5 rope, and hang 'em up high and let 'em swing thll the sun goes down. chorus. A5 E5 Well you know whats wrong with the world today. People done gone and D5 A5 put their Bibles away, There livin' by law of the jungle not the low of the E5 D5 E5 land. Well the good book says it, so I know it's the truth, An eye for an D5 eye and a tooth for a tooth. You'd better watch where you go and remember A5 E5 where you've been, that's the way I see it I'm a simple man. Now, I'm the kind of man that wouldn't harm a mouse, but if I catch somebody breakin' in my house, I've got a twelve gauge shotgun waitin' on the other side. So don't go pushin' me against my will, I don't want to have to fight you but I durn sure will. So if you don't want trouble that you'd better just pass me on by. As far as I'm concerned there aint no excuse for the raping and the killing and the child abuse. And I've got a way to put and end to all that mess. You just take those rascals out in the swamp, put them on their knees and tie 'em to a stump and let the rattlers and the bugs and the alligators do the rest. chorus.
