Ry Cooder - OLD KENTUCKY HOME lyrics

rate me

(Randy Newman)

(D) - (G) - (A) - (E7) - (A7) - (Bm)

(D) Turpentine and dandelion wine

I've turned the corner and I'm (G) doing fine

Shooting at the birds on the (D) telephone line

(A) Picking 'em off with this (D) gun of mine

I got a (G) fire in my belly and a (D) fire in my head

Going (A) higher and higher till I'm dead

Sister Sue, short and stout

She didn't grow up - she grew out

Papa says she's plain but she's just being kind

Mama says she's pretty but she's almost blind

Don't let her out much 'cept at night

But I don't care 'cause I'm all right

Oh, the (D) sun shines bright on my (G) old Kentucky (D) home

And the young folks roll on the (E7) floor (A7)

Oh, the (D) sun shines bright on my (G) old Kentucky (D) home

Keep them hard times (G) a (Bm)way (A7) from my (D) door

Brother Gene, he's big and mean

And he didn't have much to say

He had a little woman that he whupped each day

But now she's gone away

He got drunk last night

Kicked mama down the stairs

But I'm all right so I don't care