David Hollinger - The Ballad Of Bonnie And Bubba
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Afinação: E A D G B ECapotraste:
2nd traste
[Verse 1]
G
In A Small Georgia town full of peanut crops
C
Downtown fountains and crooked cops
G
Bonnie was a teenage runaway
C
Bubba was an ex-con looking to play
G
Everyone knew they were doomed from the start
C
But it didn’t matter cause
D
Bonnie stole the convicts heart
C G
[Verse 2]
G
He’d work an odd job for a week or two
C
Then he’d run off with lord knows who
G
He’d come back around when the money was spent
C
And Bonnie took him back and that’s just the way life
D
went.
C G
[Verse 3]
G
Well Bonnie got sick one Sunday morning
C
He’d left her all alone again without warning
G
She’d pace the floor then she’d lose her lunch
C
Bonnie called the doctor and he said he had a
D
hunch
C G
[Verse 4]
G
Well there’s gonna be another little mouth to feed
C
Then 9 months later out comes me
G
Daddy stayed sober for the whole first day
C
Then momma said Bubba, boy you got to change your
D
ways
C G
[Verse 5]
G
Well daddy got a job at the old sawmill
C
He never got rich but he paid the bills
G
Momma went to work waiting tables at night
C
It was just me and daddy till the early morning
D
light
C G
[Verse 6]
G
He’d pick me a song on a worn out Gibson
C
I’d clap my hands and sing along with him
G
He’d tuck me in with a mountain lullaby
C
I drifted off with convicts gleam in my
D
eye
C G
[Verse 7] One Strum
G
Well daddy got the cancer back in 63
C
He did all he could for my momma and me
G
And I played that Gibson till my fingers bled
C
And every song he sang I can still hear in my
D
head.
C G
[Verse 8] One Strum
G
Well momma went to heaven in 68
C
Daddy always said he’d meet her at the gate
G
everyone knew they were doomed from the start
C
But it didn’t matter cause momma stole a convicts
D
heart.
C G
C
No it didn’t matter cause momma stole a convicts
D
heart.
C G
G C D G
How to play David Hollinger - The Ballad Of Bonnie And Bubba
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