The Great Joe Bob A Regional Tragedy
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Afinação: E A D G B ECapotraste: Sem capotraste
[Intro]
C F
He was a pandhandle prince, schoolboy football king
G
They told him 'Hi' in the halls ‘cause he could run them balls
G C
But it was rumored down deep he was mean
C
He dated high-tone girls with frosty pompom curls
C F
But he never give out his ring
F G
He was the best of the best, he met the grid-iron test
G C
And there ain’t nothin as American and clean
[Chorus]
C F
He was the pride of the backfield, ah, the hero of his day
G
Yeah he carried the ball for the red and blue
G C
They won this state Triple-A
C F C D7
And his name made all the papers as the best they’d ever had
D7 G7 G C
Yes, nobody understood it when the great Joe Bob went bad
[Verse]
C F
First he lost his scholarship to the Texas Tech
G7 C
For drinkin during trainin and breaking the coach’s neck
C F
Yeah, then he got suspended for acting obscene
G7 C
Around the cum laude, cum laude daughter of the dean
C F
So he took up with a waitress named Loose Ruby Cole
G7 C
While she was hoppin tables down at the Hi-D-Ho
C F
And he met her on the sly when her daddy weren’t around
G7 C
Ah, but he stopped makin yardage when he started messin round
[Chorus]
C F
He was the pride of the backfield, ah, the hero of his day
G
Yeah, he carried the ball for the red and blue
G C
They won this state Triple-A
C F C D7
And his name made all the papers as the best they’d ever had
G7 G C
Yes and nobody understood it when the great Joe Bob went bad
[Verse]
C F
It spread like a country wildfire: some big had gone all strange
G C
Joe Bob the greatest halfback was acting half deranged
C F
He’d been seen out with this woman getting drunk and having fun
G G7 C
Yeah he growed his hair, then give up prayer, said football days is done
C F
Then he and old Loose Ruby robbed a Pinkie’s Liquor Store
G G7 C
They had a run-in with the law when they was runnin out the door
C F
And Joe Bob’s fate was sealed for the next century
G G7 C
Yeah, he traded in the pigskin for the penitentiary
[Chorus]
C F
He was the pride of the backfield, ah, the hero of his day
G
Yeah, he carried the ball for the red and blue
G C
But hell he carried it all the way
C F C D7
And his name made all the papers as the best they’d ever had
G C
Yes, nobody understood it, nobody comprended when the great Joe Bob went bad.
F G C
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