Wrote The Book Around Here
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Afinação: E A D G B ECapotraste:
1st traste
Recorded by Brantley Gilbert
Album: So Help Me God 2022
Capo on 1
[Intro]
G C
We put the hell in the raisin', country in the station
G D
Good in them ol' good years
G C
Now there ain't nothin' to it, we don't just do it
Em D G
Man, we wrote the book around here
[Solo]
|(G) / (C) / |(G) / (D) / |
|(G) / (C) / |(Em)(D)(G)
[Verse 1]
G C
You can leave black marks barkin' down a two-lane
G C
But man we did the same thing when it was just dirt
G C Em
If you wanna put your name on a tank, it'll take a lotta paint
D G
But your gonna have to cover mine first
[Verse 2]
G C
And that bonfire spot y'all got
G D
I lit the first log out in that old field
G C
You can be the guy that buys all the shine from me
Em D G
Hell, I'll help build the steel
[Chorus]
G C
We put the hell in the raisin', country in the station
G D
Good in them ol' good- years
G C
Now there ain't nothin' to it, we don't just do it
Em D G
Man, we wrote the book around here
G C
We put the rock in the roll, the roll in the stone
G D
A whole lot of cold in beer
G C
Put the shot in the sign, the all in the night
Em D G
Yeah, we wrote the book around here
[Verse 3]
G C
You can talk that talk, 'bout your young buck crew
G D
'Fore you run your mouth and get knocked out your boots
G C
Every word that you heard about me is damn true
Em D G
Got the shirt and the tattoo too
[Chorus]
G C
We put the hell in the raisin', country in the station
G D
Good in them ol' good-years
G D
Now there ain't nothin' to it, we don't just do it
Em D G
Man, we wrote the book around here
G C
We put the rock in the roll, the roll in the stone
G D
A whole lot of cold in beer
G C
Put the shot in the sign, the all in the night
Em G D
Yeah we wrote the book around here
[Solo]
|(G) / (C) / |(G) / (D) / |
|(G) / (C) / |(Em)(D)(G)
[Bridge]
G C
We put the red in the neck, the back in the forty
D
Everything in every small-town story
[Chorus]
G C
We put the hell in the raisin', country in the station
G D
Good in them ol' good- years
G C
Now there ain't nothin' to it, we don't just do it
Em G D
Man, we wrote the book around here
G C
We put the rock in the roll, the roll in the stone
G D
A whole lot of cold in beer
G C
Put the shot in the sign, the all in the night
Em D
Yeah we wrote the book around here
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