verse i 

C 
She was a hot-shit singer in a low-rent dive 

C                             (G) 
Lookin' like she wanna eat a man alive 

C 
Legs get to kickin' in a worn-out shoe 

C                  (G)           C 
Kemba's got the cabbage moth blues 

C 
Laundry in Los Angeles and old St. Lou(is) 

C                        (G) 
Left Carolina with a load or two 

C 
Down in Kentucky got them hanging on the line 

C                (G)    C 
Mama was dressed so fine 





[Refrão]

F 
Tell Kentucky how your turnip greens grow 

C 
Tell California everything you know 

C                                                    (G)        C 
Tell New York, tell Tennessee, come to Carolina your drink's on me 





verse ii 

C 
There's too much chicken in the hen house now 

C                      (G)  
Hens stay in, roosters stay out 

C 
See that red chicken sittin' on an egg 

C                                 (G)       C 
Fox caught the rooster and the rooster got dead 

C 
Got the water rolling in a pot of beans 

C                              (G) 
Had to keep the cabbage moth off the greens 

C 
Put the hot pepper right on the leaf 

C                                           (G)          C 
You' better wash them off good 'fore you serve them to me 




[Refrão]

F 
Tell Kentucky how your turnip greens grow 

C 
Tell California everything you know 

C                                                    (G)        C 
Tell New York, tell Tennessee, come to Carolina your drink's on me 





bridge 

F 
It was a whiskey and a whiskey and a whiskey and a whiskey.... 

F 
...and a whiskey and a whiskey and a whiskey while the music did play 

C 
I hope my mama didn't float away 

C                         (G)         G          G7 
Because I heard that the Cumberland was out of the banks 





[Refrão]

F 
Tell Kentucky how your turnip greens grow 

C 
Tell California everything you know 

C                                                    (G)        C 
Tell New York, tell Tennessee, come to Carolina your drink's on me 





F 
Tell Kentucky how your turnip greens grow 

C 
Tell California everything you know 

C                                                    (G)        C 
Tell New York, tell Tennessee, come to Carolina your drink's on me 


C                          G  G!     F 
come to Carolina and your drink's on meeeeeeeeeeeee..... 




redneck finish 

C                  C  G  G      C 
Hhhmmmmmmmmmmmm....fish and grits! 







whew!! 




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