The Carter Boys lyrics and chords

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The Carter Boys
Written and recorded by Tom T. Hall

C                                 F     C
The Carter boys were born one and after another
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In a little ol' country place
                       F           C
I was the last and the death of my mother
                    G7         C
And I know it was a pretty bad trait

                     F          C
We'd get to drinking I'd do the singing
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And they taught me to chase girls and cuss
                F          C
We played poker I'd do the dealing
               G7           C
I was the only one we could trust

               F      G7       C
And there were six of us all together
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And that's how we stood all the time
F      G7       C
Six of us all together
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The Carter boys were brothers of mine

                       F            C
We had an ol' car that we kept tied together
               G7              C
With pieces of baling wire and hope
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Well they knew when we got there and they knew when we left
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They could tell by the noise and the smoke

                        F          C
Anytime the sheriff had nothing to do
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He'd get out and chase us around
                         F       C
The old women prayed the old men laughed
                    G7         C
And the middle aged people all frowned

Repeat #3

                             F             C
Daddy was a preacher and the Lord knows he tried
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Gave us everything he could afford
                        F                C
We lost a lotta battles but daddy always said

                  G7             C
The only thing we feared was the Lord

                                F         C
Well as I look back through the long lean years
                G7      C
I wonder how we ever survived
                      F            C
All of that hard work all of those women
                 G7          C
And all of those pistols and knives

Repeat #3 x2

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