Gotta Quit Kicking My Dog Around Jake
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Afinação: E A D G B ETecla: CCapotraste: Sem capotraste
C F
Had an old dog and his name was Jake
C G
Found him out in the old cain break
C F
Figured he’d make a pretty good hound
G C
As soon as he learned his way around
Am
What’s that son what have you got
F C G
He’s Bluetick stock and the lord knows what
C Am
Take him out back and wash him down
G C
Billy Joe’s found a lord knows hound
C
Oooooooooohhh!
C Am
Every time I go to town
C G C
The boys keep kicking my dog around
Am
Makes no difference if he is a hound
C G C
You gotta quit kicking my dog around
C Am
We took Jake out and to school him hard
C G
But he chased Ma’s ducks all around the yard
C F
He chased her chickens and a rabbit and a deer
C G C
And he chewed on the neighbor’s milk cow’s ear
Am
We took Jake to run a raccoon
F C G
But he lead us straight to the town saloon
C Am
While the sherif stood there in tremblin’ fear
C G C
Jake chewed on his star and he drank his beer
C
Oooooooooohhh!
C Am
Every time I go to town
C G C
The boys keep kicking my dog around
Am
Makes no difference if he is a hound
C G C
You gotta quit kicking my dog around
C F
Well me and Jake we are best friends
C G
We’ll stick together until the end
C F
Checking that trap that Pa had set
C G C
We came on the tracks of a mountain cat
C F
Jake took off with flopping ears
C G
He chased that cat from here to there
C Am
And all the boys showed up from town
C G C
To watch that cat and the crazy hound
C F
Well Jake he had that critter treed
C G
And the boys all looked and smiled at me
C F
‘Cause way up high on a limb she sat
C G C
My mother’s precious calico cat
C
Oooooooooohhh!
C Am
Every time I go to town
C G C
The boys keep kicking my dog around
Am
Makes no difference if he is a hound
C G C
You gotta quit kicking my dog around
[faster]
C Am
Every time I go to town
C G F
The boys keep kicking my dog around
Am
Makes no difference if he is a hound
C G F
You gotta quit kicking my dog around
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