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Confidence And Common Sense
Recorded by Billy Crash Craddock
Written by Durwood Haddock

C              F
Well daddy had confidence and common sense
      C
And a woman like momma to lean against
                G7                  C
Nothin' in this world would get 'em down

                     G7               C
Momma was twenty and daddy was twenty-one
                                   G7                    C
Left the hometown loaded down with nothin' but faith and love
           F
They had a change of clothes and heaven knows
         C
How they made it in dad's ol' car
                                             G7               C
Roadside parks were where they slept and the meals were candy bars

                        G7                 C
Well they got as far as money would go one night
                                                        G7      C
Daddy looked around kinda liked the town and he found a job all right
F                                     C
Oh the pay was small but after all he had to start somewhere
                               G7                  C
A mouth to feed was on the way yes I would soon be there

F                                             C
No they never dreamed there was a chance that they might fail in life
F                    G7                 C
Oh a cold impersonal world was all they found
              F
But daddy had confidence and common sense
      C
And a woman like momma to lean against
                G7                  C
Nothin' in this world would get 'em down

                                G7                 C
They made their home in a house where the rent was low
                                            
Yeah it looked pretty bad but they were glad 
G7                      C
They'd found a place to go
             F                                    C
No it wasn't too much but for forty a month won't buy you everything
                              G7              C
To them it was a castle mom a queen and dad a king

                G7                   C
As time went by things were bound to change
                                  G7                 C
So here I am a full grown man and proud of my family name

F                                  C
Cause my folks taught me how to be strong and to see life through
                                          G7               C
When things are tough I’m smart enough to know what I must do

   F                                            C
No I've never dreamed there was a chance that I might fail in life
         F               G7              C
Though a cold impersonal world was all I found
             F
But I've got confidence and common sense
      C
And a woman like mama to lean against
                G7                   C
Nothin' in this world's gonna get me down

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