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Pizza Deliverance

Drive-By Truckers
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Chords in this song

Strum
D-DU-UDU
 but most of all I like bulldozers and dirt.
I  met your mama  when I was nine-teen
You  couldn’t have been any more  than three
She  caught me stealing  yall’s color T-V
She  called the cops and  they arrested me.
She  was the wildest  thing I’d ever  seen
 the way  she pointed  that shotgun at  me
 the police  hauled  my ass off  to jail
 
Your  mama signed the trailer to help make the bail
 She picked  me up and  drove me  home
said  “I’ll learn  you not  to roam”
Green  green grass  under  my feet
 but all  I can think  about’s the dirt under-neath
 (Chorus)
 Bull-dozers  and dirt Bull-dozers  and  dirt
 be-hind  the trailer,  my  desert
 Them red clay  piles are  heaven on  earth
I  get my rocks  off, bull-dozers  and dirt
 (spoken)  …I got a pickup that’s sittin’ on blocks
 and I’m up to  my ass in debt  and hock
 and I can’t  get the red stains  off of my socks
 and I can’t  get you off of my mind…
 I’ve lived  with your mama for e-leven  years
 Through good times,  and bad times,  fist fights and tears
 
 but something  comes over me when you come near
 so won’t  you come over and sip  on this beer
 Bull-dozers  and dirt Bull-dozers  and dirt
 be-hind  the trailer,  my desert
 I don’t  mean no harm, I just  like to  flirt
 but most  of all I like  bull-dozers and  dirt
most  of all I like  bull-dozers and  di------irt…
 lyrics by Patterson Hood
 music by Drive-by Truckers (Cooley, Hood, Howell, Lane, Neff, and Sell)
 ©1997 Soul Dump Music
 written while walking my dog (Aretha), spring 1996
 NINE BULLETS
My  roommate's gun  got nine bullets  in it
Nine bullets  in my  roommate's gun
My  roommate's gun  got nine bullets  in it
Gonna  find a use  for every  last one
One  for the love  who chose  to betray  me
a  real fine love  who wouldn't  be true
One  for the man  that she  betrayed me with
a  nice enough fella,  she'll betray  him too
a  nice enough fella,  she'll betray  him too
My  roommate's gun  got nine bullets  in it
Nine bullets  in my roommate's  gun
My  roommate's gun  got nine bullets  in it
Gonna  find a use  for every  last one
 One for my boss man, riding my butt again
 sorry sir, but you'd better clock out
 One for the lady down at the laundromat
 who goes through the dryer pulling one sock out
 She goes through my dryer pulling one sock out
 My roommate's gun got nine bullets in it
 Nine bullets in my roommate's gun
 My roommate's gun got nine bullets in it
 Gonna find a use for every last one
 One just to put me out of my misery
 I better aim that sucker true
 I'll leave a note that says I'm sorry but
 I went off the deep end when I fell for you
 I went off the deep end when I fell for you
One  each for  my immediate family
they'll  be so disappointed  to see what  I done
One  left over,  so I'll save  it for my roommate
After all  its my roommate's gun
After all  its my roommate's gun
After all  its my roommate's gun
 its my roommate's gun
 My roommate's gun got nine bullets in it
 Nine bullets in my roommate's gun
 My roommate's gun got nine bullets in it
 Gonna find a use for every last one
 My roommate's gun got nine bullets in it
 Nine bullets in my roommate's gun
 My roommate's gun got nine bullets in it
 Gonna find a use for every last one
 Gonna find a use for every last one
 Gonna find a use for every last one
 lyrics by Patterson Hood Music by Drive-by Truckers ©1997 Soul Dump Music
 originally written on stage in Opelika AL. P. Hood and M. Cooley 3/13/92
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 UNCLE FRANK
 chords/tab by Travis Kilgore on altcountry.,com
 There is another odd chord in this song, as well. Once again, I don’t know what it’s
 but I can show you how to play it.
E------2------| Make a normal D chord, then use your pinkie finger to fret the 4th
 of the A string AND mute the
B------3------| D string. It’s a little awkward at first, but gets easier with
Since I don’t know exactly what
G------2------| this chord is called, I will refer to it in the tab as C/D.
D------x------|
A------4------|
E-------------|
They  powered up the city with hydro-electric juice.
 Now we got  more electricity than we can ever use.
 
 They flooded out the hollow and all the  folks down there moved out,
 
 But they got paid  so there ain’t nothin’ else to think about.
Some  of them made their living cutting the timber down,
Snaking  it one log at a time up the hill and into town.
T.V.A.  had  a way  to clear it  off real fast.
 
 Lots of men and machinery  build a dam and drown the rest.
Uncle  Frank lived in a cabin down on Cedar Creek,
 Bought fifteen  acres when he got back home from overseas.
 Fifteen rocky  acres, figured noone else would want,
 
 Till all that backed up  water had to have some place to go.
Uncle  Frank  couldn’t read or write.
Never  held down a  job,  or needed one  in his life.
 They assured him  there’d be work for him in town building cars.
 It’s already going down.
The  cars never came to town and the roads never got built.
 And the price of  all that power kept on going straight uphill.
 
 The banks around the hollow  sold for lakefront proper-ty
 
 Where Doctors,  Lawyers, and Mu-sicians  teach their kids to water-ski.
Uncle  Frank couldn’t  read or  write.
 So  there was no note or letter  found where  he died.
 
 Just a rope around his  neck and the kitchen table turned on it’s side
 TOO MUCH SEX, TOO LITTLE JESUS
 Chords/tab by Travis Kilgore from altcountrytab.com
 I am including tab of the chord voicings used by the band on this song. While they are
 quite standard, I don’t know their actual names. Therefore I will refer to them by their
 names. (The one exception to this is the D used in the song, which is just your
 garden-variety D chord.)
 E—3--
 B—3--
 G—0--
 D—2--
 A—2--
 E—0—-
 E—3--
 B—3--
 G—2--
 D—2--
 A—0--
 E—---
 E—3--
 B—3--
 G—0--
 D—0--
 A—2--
 E—---
 E—3--
 B—3--
 G—0--
 D—2--
 A—3--
 E—---
 E—3--
 B—3--
 G—0--
 D—0--
 A—2--
 E—3—-
 Too Much Sex (Too Little Jesus)
 Guitar Intro starts with G...
 Too much sex,  too little Jesus(Play C, B, A , G three times)
Stacy’s  been a troubled teen ever  since she was twelve.
She  felt the world close in on her and  thought
 she needed help.
Listening  to the radio on  a Sunday night,
She  heard the preacher calling out  to call up on his Help-line.
He  sounded so nice; he  sounded so inviting.
For  a small donation she could have  the Lord Almighty.
 She  told him her story. He  told her his thoughts.
 He said  you better get yourself right in  the eyes of God.
 (Play , ,  ,  once)
Too  much sex,  too little Jesus,
Too  much sex,  too little Jesus,
Too  much sex,  too little Jesus...
 (Play , ,  three times.)
Stop  that dope smoking, stop  that masturbation!
Take  the Lord into your heart and stop  that fornication.
 We're  building us an army, gonna  knock out Satan.
Visa  or MasterCard, our operators  are waiting!
 (Play , ,  ,  once.)
Too  much sex,  too little Jesus,
Too  much sex,  too little Jesus,
Too  much sex,  too little Jesus...
 (Play , ,  three times.)
 (He) said  “Satan's made a slave of you, the  Lord will set you free!
 You don't  know God from diddly and you're old  enough to breed.
 The  sins of me and you are the  reason he did bleed.
 Now a word  from our sponsor then an-other  troubled teen with...
 (Play , ,  ,  once)
Too  much sex,  too little Jesus
 Too  much sex,  too little Jesus,
Too  much sex,  too little Jesus,
Too  much sex,  too little Jesus...
 (Play , , ,  two more times)
 (End with , , )
 BOX OF SPIDERS
Gran  Gran keeps  a box of spiders.
She  says they're on  me when I sleep.
Waiting in  the out-house for  me.
underneath  the seat.
 My great-grandmothers bout ninety-seven
 and she is sure when she gets to heaven,
 old St. Peter's gonna throw his arms around her and say
 'I've waited so long for us to meet'.
She  put the General in a box
 and buried him behind  the Stoney Point Church of Christ,
 when I was three.
 (and she says) "When the lord comes to take me,
 I'll die with a smile on, cause He's taking all my pains and fears."
 She said The Generals last words were
 "It's hotter than hell in here".
 Gran Gran keeps a box of spiders,
 or so she told me as a child,
 and I would hold it in for hours.
 Too mean to die. Too mean to die. Too mean.
 (for Gran Gran)
 lyrics by Patterson Hood
 music by Drive-by Truckers
 ©1998 Soul Dump Music
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 ONE OF THESE DAYS
 
 If I had a dime  for every time  I heard my  old man say
One  of these days
 I wouldn't be like  my old man  today
 Talking bout places  that he'd been
 Back in his younger  days that he was gonna  go back to  again
One  of these days
 Dropped out of school when he was just sixteen
 Fell right in to a tire plant
 Building the very things that make the asphalt sing
 And put Alabama far behind you
 I remember him saying that Chicago was a hell right here on earth
 And twenty five years later I was saying the same thing about Memphis
 It's no wonder everybodies scared of downtown Birmingham
 It's just a little too close to home
 But there's more crooks down here and the cops don't care,
 While old white men wearing ties can do anything they want.
 Once a country boy's seen the way the steam rises
 Off a man's insides on the sidewalk
 Tends to change the way he thinks, the way he sees everything
 And he goes back to where he came from
 
One  of  these days when my  face  looks like a roadmap gonna find my way back home.
   And I'll  go walking on the  west  side after dark and leave my gun locked in my car.
 One of these days  you'll take one look  at me and run.
 One of these days  you'll take one look  at me and run.
 
 Margo and Harold
 (chords submitted by Brian Howard
 root
 -3- -x- -3- -3-
 -3- -x- -3- -3-
 -0- -x- -0- -0-
 -2- -2- -0- -2-
 -2- -0- -2- -3-
 -0- -2- -3- -0-
   Fmr
 
 I don't want to go to dinner with Margo and Harold.
   Fmr
   Fmr
 I don't like the way he looks at you, and the way she looks at me,
 
   Fmr
 Way they look at each other, like we're just part of some private joke.
 I don't want to go dinner with Margo and Harold,
 no matter how good the food.
 I don't want to make small talk, innuendo,
 or go for a ride in Harold's Corvette.
 I'm scared of the basement of Harold's Pawn Shop,
 
 I've heard tales of what goes down there.
 
 Mid-life crises, high on Dilauded, Valium, and crystal meth.
 
 Harold and Margo, feeling no pain
 
 Fifty and crazy, big hair and cocaine.
 If they call on the phone, tell them I'm not home.
 That night with Margo was a long time ago.
 It makes me nervous how much Harold knows,
 and the way that he looks at you.
 I don't want to see why Harold's now skinny.
 I don't want to see Margo's bikini.
 So if they call, tell them you ain't seen me or that I'm in too much pain.
 Harold and Margo, taking aim.
 Horny and loaded, big-hair and cocaine.
 Lyrics by Patterson Hood
 Music by Drive-by Truckers (Cooley, Hood, Howell, Lane, Neff)
 ©1998 Soul Dump Music
 THE COMPANY I KEEP
My  Mama told  me, your life is  such a wreck
 Your dumber than dogshit is what my Daddy said
I  was just thirteen when they showed  me the door
I  keep their picture  but don't look  at it no more
 My first wife told me, you need to get a life
 My third wife told me to get another wife
 I brought a bottle and the van's parked right outside the door
 So come on darling, if you want to be number 4
Sometimes  I feel like shit
Sometimes  it ain't half of it
Sometimes  I'm so high I'm scared  to go to sleep
Sometimes  I'm lower  than the company  I keep
 Ain't held down no job since 1984
 I get by holding up convenience stores
 I get by on liquor, guns and luck
 But I'm scared to death which one might run out first
 I seen my past in everything that I despise
 I've seen my future and I'm scared to close my eyes
 Is that my ghost that I see in my fears
 Or just my reflection in my Mama's tears
 Patterson Hood / Drive-By Truckers
 © Soul Dump Music (BMI)
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 The President's Penis is Missing
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-0-----------0---0-----|
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 (NEWS FLASH!!!) (scene: the press corps have descended upon the White House, a
 begins to speak:)
“They  looked in the White House and Capitol Hill
 They looked everywhere for Buffalo Bill
 We called every scholar, reporter, and genius
 Has anyone seen the President’s penis?”
“It  ain’t in the Congress or Judiciary
 It ain’t in the Smithsonian or that big ole library
 an astronomer claims it was sighted on Venus
 Has anyone seen the President’s penis?”
 (now the entire press corp. erupts in song:)
“THE  PRESIDENT’S PENIS IS MISSING OLE’!!!
 WE SEARCHED HIGH AND LOW, EVERY NIGHT EVERYDAY
 LORD, WON’T YOU COME DOWN AND REDEEM US
 HAS ANYONE SEEN THE PRESIDENT’S PENIS?”
 (at this point, legendary news man Walter Cronkite returns from the moon to add his commentary:)
 “Now Presidents have goofed up in all kinds of ways
 in the 80’s we elected one missing his brain
 George Washington caught a cold he couldn’t explain
 and we all know the truth about Thomas Jefferson’s name”
 (suddenly William Randolph Hurst rises from the grave and bellows out in an Orson Welles
 voice:)
 “Franklin D. Roosevelt wasn’t no square
 with that raging Woodrow in his wheelchair
 and all the lesbians snickered that Elenor didn’t care
 and John Kennedy’s penis was seen everywhere”
 (once again everyone breaks out in gleeful song:)
 “THE PRESIDENT’S PENIS IS MISSING OLE’!!!
 WE SEARCHED HIGH AND LOW EVERY NIGHT EVERY DAY
 LORD WON’T YOU COME DOWN AND REDEEM US
 HAS ANYONE SEEN THE PRESIDENT’S PENIS?”
 (the scene shifts to Sen. John Glenn, wandering pensively, somewhere in space:)
 “Them outer space people would laugh if they’d seen us
 all this talk about cum-stains and oral coitus
 meanwhile the whole world suffers from hunger and meanness
 but we’re more concerned with the President’s penis”
 THE END?
 lyrics by Patterson Hood (c) 1998 Soul Dump Music
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 TAILS FACING UP
Me  and my brother's old lady went out and got stinking,
 she solved  her curiosities about me by the railroad tracks.
 She said  I reminded her of him before he started drinking
 and banging  the babysitter every  time she turned her back.
We  opened up the sunroof and smoked a big ole joint
 and drank a case of Pabst Blue Ribbon listening to the crickets and trains.
Every  so often she'd lapse into narcotic rambling.
Moon  and mascara.  I've  always been a holy  terror.
 Temptations  lurking every where. If your mind's in the gutter, Beware!
 You'll find me there.
 Me and a friend were talking after the funeral.
 She said it should have been me but I'm still around and I been so wild,
 I'm surprised I made it to the seventh grade, and all my dead friends have settled down.
 My eyes were puffy and she asked if I'd been crying.
 I said 'tears are for pussies' but who was I kidding.
 So we stopped at the bar and drank them dry. Beer and tequila.
 I've always been a thrill seeker. But thrills are a dime a dozen these days.
 And I found a dime in the gutter today. Tails facing up. Still fucking up. Still fucking up.
 A funny thing happened on my way to a strange way of thinking.
 lyrics by Patterson Hood
 music by Drive-by Truckers (Cooley, Hood, Howell, Lane, Neff)
 ©1998 Soul Dump Music
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 LOVE LIKE THIS
 Play D/Db as follows
-2-
-3-
-2-
-x-
-4-
 LOVE LIKE THIS
 Coming home  with a bottle, trying not to break the seal.
 This Friday evening traffic's  about enough to break a man's will.
 And I can't  wait to see you and see how your week has gone,
 and tear into  Old No.7 and make love till dawn.
 But your Mama she'll be calling, if she ain't knocking on the door.
 And it won't take me long to remember what I brought that bottle home for.
 And we'll all get to fighting, just like we always do.And by Saturday morning,
 I'll be singing these blues.
 Last night  I slept with my boots on again,
one  cut on my forehead and one my chin,
 
 on the hard old floor with nothin to cover up with.
 You got  me real good, girl, and I must admit,
 you pack purty mean  punch for such a pretty little dish.
 
 And it's  a shame to know most folks don't ever know love like this.
 Come Monday morning, I'll be sore to a fare-thee-well.
 Cussin' God and America, wishing them both just to send me off to hell.
 But the boss man don't want no excuses when it comes time to get on the clock.
 And without that paycheck, I'd lose the rest of what sweet love I got.
 Last night I slept with my boots on again,one cut on my forehead and one my chin,
 on the hard old floor with nothin to cover up with.
 You got me real good, girl, and I must admit,
 you pack purty mean punch for such a pretty little dish.
 And it's a shame to know most folks don't ever know love like this
 lyrics by Mike Cooley
 music by Drive-by Truckers
 ©1998 Soul Dump Music
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 Mrs. Dubose
 Jupiter mules kickin' out all the stops
 Newfangled dogs danglin' stars from her eyelids
 She can't read between the lies anymore
 Lord, help her rise just one more time if you can.
 Still, the children read to her
 till she opens up her hands
 When my body dies will you remember my name?
 When my body dies will you remember my name?
 Oh, Mrs. Dubose you were such a flower
 now you're all dead inside withered and insane
 Oh, Mrs. Dubose you were such a flower, you got the death,
 the dust, and the opium runnin' through your veins
 Black maid stays cause she's paid to be around
 Condemned and scared for all she knows
 You better look at the road when you pass
 she gonna fix you with that evil eye
 unless your hotdin' your old man's hand
 you better pass on by better pass on by
 lyrics by Rob Malone
 music by Drive-by Truckers
 ©1998 Soul Dump Music
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 Zoloft
 
 Notes in these are not full chords. Just use the notes as a walkdown.
 All my family problems disappeared over night
We're  all taking Zoloft and everything is fine
 My sister's teen angst just flew out the window
 Mama's so happy she laughs all  the time
Used  to have trouble getting along with each other
Mama's  hating Daddy, I'm hating little brother
 Then the family doctor gave us all these little pills
 Now I can't believe how great  we  all feel
 All my family problems disappeared over night
 We're all taking Zoloft and everything is fine
 My sister's teen angst just flew out the window
 Mama's so happy she laughs all the time
 The birds in the trees all sing them happy songs
 Everyone is smiling, we're so glad to be alive
 Even my old pit bull don't growl anymore
 He just watches tail wag from side to side
 All my family problems disappeared over night
 We're all taking Zoloft and everything is fine
 My sister's teen angst just flew out the window
 Mama's so happy she laughs till she cries
 I used to be so unhappy singing songs about killing
 Taking methodone and jacking off four or five times a day
 But now I'm so happy, I'm so goddamned happy
 Who needs an orgasm when life's so fucking great
 All my family problems disappeared over night
 We're all taking Zoloft and everything is fine
 My sister's teen angst just flew out the window
 Mama's so happy she cries all the time
 Patterson Hood / Drive-By Truckers
 © Soul Dump Music (BMI)
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 THE NIGHT GG ALLIN CAME TO TOWN
 (chords submitted by Brian Howard. Thanks!)
 
 We were bored, there was nothing going on.
 
 Might as well stay at home and drink until we pass out again.
 
 Then drink some more when the morning comes.
 Memphis was sinking into the Mississippi.
 We were doing our best just to ride it down.
 Till the night G.G. Allin came to town.
 
 "Honey, I dont believe this,"
 
 
 the old man at Ferguson's Cafe kept saying to his wife.
 
 
 As he read aloud The Memphis Star and their account of what went down
 
  that night
 
 "It says He took a shit on the stage and started throwing it into
 
  the crowd.
 
 But He was gone before the cops could come and shut him down."
 
 Gone before the shit came down.
 The Night G.G. Allin Came to Town.
 The Night G.C. Allin Came to Town.
 
 Antenna Club, Memphis, 1991.
 
 Punk Rockers Paid $12.00 to be Shit On!
 The Night
 G.G. Allin Came to Town
 
 
 "It says He took the microphone and shoved it up his ass!"
 
 
 The old man and his wife were aghast
 The Night .
 . Allin Came to Town.
 The Night G.G. Allin Came to Town.
 lyrics by Patterson Hood (c) 1998 Soul Dump Music

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Readable chord sheet for Pizza Deliverance by Drive-By Truckers

but most of all I like bulldozers and dirt.               [G/D]

[C/G]I met your mam[G/D]a when I was nin[D/A]e-teen        [G/D]

[C/G]You couldn’t have been any [G/D]more than th[D/A]ree

[C/G]She caught me stealin[G/D]g yall’s color T-V [D/A]          [G/D]

[C/G]She called the cops [G/D]and they arrested me[D/A].        [G/D]

[C/G]She was the wild[G/D]est thing I’d ever[D/A] seen    [G/D]

the wa[C/G]y she poin[G/D]ted that shotgun [D/A]at me

the po[C/G]lice ha[G/D]uled my ass of[D/A]f to jail  [G/D]

         [C/G]                     [G/D]        [D/A]
[G/D]Your mama signed the trailer to help make the bail

She pic[C/G]ked me up and[G/D] drove me[D/A] home      [G/D]

[C/G]said “I’ll [G/D]learn you no[D/A]t to roam”

[C/G]Green green grass[G/D] unde[D/A]r my feet   [G/D]

but al[C/G]l I can t[G/D]hink about’s the dirt unde[D/A]r-neath     [G/D]

(Chorus)

Bull-doz[C/G]ers and dirt Bu[G/D]ll-dozers a[D/A]nd dirt       [G/D]

be-hi[C/G]nd the tra[G/D]iler, my[D/A] desert

Them red c[C/G]lay piles [G/D]are heaven [D/A]on earth      [G/D]

[C/G]I get my r[G/D]ocks off, bull-dozer[D/A]s and dirt     [G/D]

[C]                                      [G]
(spoken)[G] …I got a pickup that’s sittin’ on blocks

and I’m up to[C] my ass in deb[G]t and ho[D]ck

and I can[C]’t get the red stai[G]ns off of my so[D]cks          [G]

and I can[C]’t get you off of my [G]mind…         [D]

I’ve li[C]ved with your mama for e[G]-leven years   [D]             [G]

Through good ti[C]mes, and bad time[G]s, fist fights and tear[D]s

      [C]                          [G]           [D]
but so[G]mething comes over me when you come near

so wo[C]n’t you come over and sip[G] on this beer[D]               [G]

Bull-doz[C]ers and dirt Bull[G]-dozers and d[D]irt             [G]

be-hi[C]nd the trail[G]er, my des[D]ert

I [C]don’t mean no harm, I [G]just like t[D]o flirt         [G]

but mo[C]st of all I like[G] bull-dozers an[D]d dirt           [G]

[C]most of all I li[G]ke bull-dozers [D]and di------irt… [C]   [G]     [D]       [G]

lyrics by Patterson Hood
music by Drive-by Truckers (Cooley, Hood, Howell, Lane, Neff, and Sell)
©1997 Soul Dump Music
written while walking my dog (Aretha), spring 1996


NINE BULLETS

[G]  [D]  [Cadd9]  [D]  [G]

[G]My roommate's gun[D] got [Cadd9]nine  [G]bullets in it
[G]Nine [D]bullets in [Cadd9]my roommate's [G]gun
[G]My roommate's [D]gun got [Cadd9]nine  [G]bullets in it
[G]Gonna find a [D]use for [Cadd0]every last [G]one

[Em7]One for the [D]love who [Cadd9]chose to [G]betray me
[Em7]a real fine [D]love who [Cadd9]wouldn't be [G]true
[Em7]One for the [D]man that [Cadd9]she betrayed me [G]with
[G]a nice enough [D]fella, she'll [C]betray him [Em7]too
[G]a nice enough [D]fella, she'll [Cadd9]betray him [Em7]too

[G]My roommate's g[D]un got [Cadd9]nine  [G]bullets in it
[G]Nine [D]bullets in my [Cadd9]roommate's gun[G]
[G]My roommate's [D]gun got [Cadd9]nine  [G]bullets in it
[G]Gonna find a [D]use for [Cadd9]every last [G]one

One for my boss man, riding my butt again

sorry sir, but you'd better clock out

One for the lady down at the laundromat

who goes through the dryer pulling one sock out

She goes through my dryer pulling one sock out

My roommate's gun got nine bullets in it

Nine bullets in my roommate's gun

My roommate's gun got nine bullets in it

Gonna find a use for every last one

One just to put me out of my misery

I better aim that sucker true

I'll leave a note that says I'm sorry but

I went off the deep end when I fell for you

I went off the deep end when I fell for you

[Asus2]     [Cadd9]  [G]  [Cadd9]  [G]

[Asus2]     [Cadd9]   [D]

[D]One each [D]for my [Cadd9]immediate [G]family
[G]they'll be so disa[D]ppointed to see [Cadd9]what I [G]done
[G]One left [D]over, so I'll [Cadd9]save it for my [G]roommate
[G]After [D]all its my [Cadd9]roommate's [Em7]gun
[G]After [D]all its my [Cadd9]roommate's [Em7]gun
[G]After [D]all its my [Cadd9]roommate's [Em7]gun

its my roommate's gun

My roommate's gun got nine bullets in it

Nine bullets in my roommate's gun

My roommate's gun got nine bullets in it

Gonna find a use for every last one

My roommate's gun got nine bullets in it

Nine bullets in my roommate's gun

My roommate's gun got nine bullets in it

Gonna find a use for every last one

Gonna find a use for every last one

Gonna find a use for every last one

lyrics by Patterson Hood Music by Drive-by Truckers ©1997 Soul Dump Music
originally written on stage in Opelika AL. P. Hood and M. Cooley 3/13/92

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UNCLE FRANK
chords/tab by Travis Kilgore on altcountry.,com

There is another odd chord in this song, as well. Once again, I don’t know what it’s
but I can show you how to play it.

E------2------|    Make a normal D chord, then use your pinkie finger to fret the 4th
of the A string AND mute the
B------3------|    D string. It’s a little awkward at first, but gets easier with
Since I don’t know exactly what
G------2------|    this chord is called, I will refer to it in the tab as C
D------x------|
A------4------|
E-------------|

[A]They powered up the city with hydro-electric juice.

Now we go[F#m]t more electricity than we can ever use.

         [D]                       [C#] [D]
They flooded out the hollow and all [D]the folks down there moved out,

       [A]                       [E]                           [D]
But they got pa[A]id so there ain’t nothin’ else to think about.

[A]Some of them made their living cutting the timber down,

[F#m]Snaking it one log at a time up the hill and into town.

[D]T.V.A. had[C#] a [D]way to clear i[E]t off real fast.       [D]

             [A]           [E]                            [D]
Lots of men and mach[A]inery build a dam and drown the rest.

[A]Uncle Frank lived in a cabin down on Cedar Creek,

Bought fiftee[F#m]n acres when he got back home from overseas.

[D]                    [C#] [D]             [E]
Fifteen rock[D]y acres, figured noone else would want,

       [A]                           [E]                  [D]
Till all that backed [A]up water had to have some place to go.

[D]Uncle Fr[C#]ank[D] couldn’t read or [E]write.

[D]Never held down [C#]a j[D]ob, or needed one[E] in his life.

[Bm]                                       [F#m]
They assured h[D]im there’d be work for him in town building cars.

It’s already going down.     [A]

[A]The cars never came to town and the roads never got built.

And the price [F#m]of all that power kept on going straight uphill.

       [D]                         [C#] [D]
The banks around the hol[D]low sold for lakefront proper-ty

                          [A]                           [E]
Where Doct[D]ors, Lawyers, and Mu[A]-sicians teach their kids to water-ski.

[D]Uncle Fra[C#]nk [D]couldn’t read or[E] write.

S[D]o there was no note or [C#]let[D]ter found wher[E]e he died.

          [Bm]                                         [F#m]
Just a rope around h[D]is neck and the kitchen table turned on it’s side

TOO MUCH SEX, TOO LITTLE JESUS

Chords/tab by Travis Kilgore from altcountrytab.com

I am including tab of the chord voicings used by the band on this song. While they are
quite standard, I don’t know their actual names. Therefore I will refer to them by their
names. (The one exception to this is the D used in the song, which is just your
garden-variety D chord.)

[Em7]

E—3--
B—3--
G—0--
D—2--
A—2--
E—0—-

[Asus2]

E—3--
B—3--
G—2--
D—2--
A—0--
E—---

[B]

E—3--
B—3--
G—0--
D—0--
A—2--
E—---

[C]

E—3--
B—3--
G—0--
D—2--
A—3--
E—---

[G]

E—3--
B—3--
G—0--
D—0--
A—2--
E—3—-

Too Much Sex (Too Little Jesus)

Guitar Intro starts with G...

Too much sex,  [D]   too little Jesus(Play C, B,  A , G three times)
[Em]Stacy’s been a troubled teen [D]ever since she was twelve.
[C]She felt the world close in on her [A]and thought

she needed help.
[Em]Listening to the radio [D]on a Sunday night,
[C]She heard the preacher calling out[A] to call up on his Help-line.
[Em]He sounded so nice; [D]he sounded so inviting.
[C]For a small donation she could [A]have the Lord Almighty.
Sh[Em]e told him her story. H[D]e told her his thoughts.
He [C]said you better get yourself right [A]in the eyes of God.
(Play [C], [B],  [A] , [G] once)

[Em]Too much sex, [D]  too little Jesus,
[C]Too much sex, [A]  too little Jesus,
[Em]Too much sex, [D]  too little Jesus...
(Play [C], [B],  [A]  [G] three times.)

[Em]Stop that dope smoking, [D]stop that masturbation!
[C]Take the Lord into your heart and [A]stop that fornication.
We're[Em] building us an army, gonna[D] knock out Satan.
[C]Visa or MasterCard, our [A]operators are waiting!
(Play [C], [B],  [A] , [G] once.)
[Em]Too much sex, [D]  too little Jesus,
[C]Too much sex, [A]  too little Jesus,
[Em]Too much sex, [D]  too little Jesus...
(Play [C], [B],  [A]  [G] three times.)

(He) said[Em] “Satan's made a slave of you, th[D]e Lord will set you free!
You [C]don't know God from diddly and you're [A]old enough to breed.
The[Em] sins of me and you are the[D] reason he did bleed.
Now a [C]word from our sponsor then an-[A]other troubled teen with...
(Play [C], [B],  [A] , [G] once)

[Em]Too much sex, [D]  too little Jesus
T[C]oo much sex,  [A] too little Jesus,
[Em]Too much sex, [D]  too little Jesus,
[C]Too much sex, [A]  too little Jesus...

(Play [Em], [D], [C], [A] two more times)

(End with [C], [B],  [A]  [G])


BOX OF SPIDERS

[G]Gran Gran [D]keeps a box of [Cadd9]spiders.
[G]She says they're [D]on me when I [Cadd9]sleep.
[G]Waiting [D]in the out-house [Cadd9]for me.
[G]       [D]underneath the [Cadd9]seat.

My great-grandmothers bout ninety-seven
and she is sure when she gets to heaven,
old St. Peter's gonna throw his arms around her and say
'I've waited so long for us to meet'.

[Cadd9]She put the General in a bo[Asus2]x
and buried him [Cadd9]behind the Stoney Point Church of [Asus2]Christ,
when I was three.[G]

(and she says) "When the lord comes to take me,
I'll die with a smile on, cause He's taking all my pains and fears."
She said The Generals last words were
"It's hotter than hell in here".

Gran Gran keeps a box of spiders,
or so she told me as a child,
and I would hold it in for hours.
Too mean to die. Too mean to die. Too mean.

(for Gran Gran)


lyrics by Patterson Hood
music by Drive-by Truckers
©1998 Soul Dump Music

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ONE OF THESE DAYS

[C]     [G]     [D]     [Em]     [C]     [G]
    [Em]

[C]  If I had a [G]dime for every [D]time I heard [Em]my old man say
[C]One of these days              [G]
[G]   I wouldn't be [D]like my old [Em]man today
[C]   Talking bout [G]places that he'd [D]been
Back in his [Em]younger days that he was [C]gonna go back [G]to again
[D]One of these days   [Em]

Dropped out of school when he was just sixteen
Fell right in to a tire plant
Building the very things that make the asphalt sing
And put Alabama far behind you

I remember him saying that Chicago was a hell right here on earth
And twenty five years later I was saying the same thing about Memphis

It's no wonder everybodies scared of downtown Birmingham
It's just a little too close to home
But there's more crooks down here and the cops don't care,
While old white men wearing ties can do anything they want.

Once a country boy's seen the way the steam rises
Off a man's insides on the sidewalk
Tends to change the way he thinks, the way he sees everything
And he goes back to where he came from

             [G]    [D]            [C]              [G]
[F#m]One of[Em] these days when [D]my face[C]   looks like a roadmap gonna find my way back home.
[G]              [D]              [C]               [G]
 [F#m]  And I'l[Em]l go walking on t[D]he west[C] side after dark and leave my gun locked in my car.
One of these [C]days you'll take one [D]look at me and [Em]run.
One of these [C]days you'll take one [D]look at me and [Em]run.

[C]     [G]     [D]     [Em]     [C]     [G]
    [Em]

[C]     [G]     [D]     [Em]     [C]     [G]
[D]

[G]


Margo and Harold
(chords submitted by Brian Howard

[Em7] [Fm] root   [G]   [Cadd9]

-3-  -x-     -3-   -3-

-3-  -x-     -3-   -3-

-0-  -x-     -0-   -0-

-2-  -2-     -0-   -2-

-2-  -0-     -2-   -3-

-0-  -2-     -3-   -0-

        [Em7]    Fmr
     [G]          [Cadd9]

I don't want to go to dinner with Margo and Harold.

        [Em7]      Fmr     [G]
      [Cadd9]        [Em7]  Fmr          [G]

I don't like the way he looks at you, and the way she looks at me,

         [Cadd9]
                    [Em7]    Fmr  [G]           [Cadd9]

Way they look at each other, like we're just part of some private joke.

I don't want to go dinner with Margo and Harold,

no matter how good the food.

I don't want to make small talk, innuendo,

or go for a ride in Harold's Corvette.

[Bm]                      [E]

I'm scared of the basement of Harold's Pawn Shop,

  [Bm]                    [Em]

I've heard tales of what goes down there.

[Bm]               [Em]
                [Bm]        [Em]

Mid-life crises, high on Dilauded, Valium, and crystal meth.

  [Cadd9]            [D]

Harold and Margo, feeling no pain

 [Cadd9]

Fifty and crazy, big hair and cocaine.

If they call on the phone, tell them I'm not home.

That night with Margo was a long time ago.

It makes me nervous how much Harold knows,

and the way that he looks at you.

I don't want to see why Harold's now skinny.

I don't want to see Margo's bikini.

So if they call, tell them you ain't seen me or that I'm in too much pain.

Harold and Margo, taking aim.

Horny and loaded, big-hair and cocaine.

Lyrics by Patterson Hood

Music by Drive-by Truckers (Cooley, Hood, Howell, Lane, Neff)

©1998 Soul Dump Music

THE COMPANY I KEEP

[Cadd9]  [G]

[G]My Mama told[D] me, your life is[Cadd9] such a [G]wreck
[Cadd9]   Your dumber than dogshit is what my Daddy [G]said
[Cadd9]I was just thirteen when they [G]showed me the [Cadd9]door
[G]I keep their [D]picture but don't [Cadd9]look at it no [G]more

My first wife told me, you need to get a life

My third wife told me to get another wife

I brought a bottle and the van's parked right outside the door

So come on darling, if you want to be number 4

[Cadd9]Sometimes I feel like [G]shit
[Cadd9]Sometimes it ain't half of [D]it
[Cadd9]Sometimes I'm so high I'm [G]scared to go to [Cadd9]sleep
[G]Sometimes I'm [D]lower than the [Cadd9]company I [G]keep

Ain't held down no job since 1984

I get by holding up convenience stores

I get by on liquor, guns and luck

But I'm scared to death which one might run out first

I seen my past in everything that I despise

I've seen my future and I'm scared to close my eyes

Is that my ghost that I see in my fears

Or just my reflection in my Mama's tears

Patterson Hood / Drive-By Truckers
© Soul Dump Music (BMI)

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The President's Penis is Missing

-----------------------|
-----------------------|
---22----22---22--22---|
---22----22---22--22---|
-0-----------0---0-----|
-------0---------------|

(NEWS FLASH!!!) (scene: the press corps have descended upon the White House, a
begins to speak:)

[A]“They looked in the White House and Capitol [E]Hill
They looked everywhere for Buffalo [A]Bill
We called every scholar, reporter, and g[E]enius
Has anyone seen the President’s [A]penis?”

[A]“It ain’t in the Congress or Judic[E]iary
It ain’t in the Smithsonian or that big ole li[A]brary
an astronomer claims it was sighted on [E]Venus
Has anyone seen the President’s p[A]enis?”

(now the entire press corp. erupts in song:)

[D]“THE PRESIDENT’S PENIS IS MISSING OLE’!!!
WE SEARCHED HIGH AND LOW, EVERY NIGHT EVE[A]RYDAY
LORD, WON’T YOU COME DOWN AND REDEEM [E]US
HAS ANYONE SEEN THE PRESIDENT’S P[A]ENIS?”

(at this point, legendary news man Walter Cronkite returns from the moon to add his commentary:)

“Now Presidents have goofed up in all kinds of ways

in the 80’s we elected one missing his brain

George Washington caught a cold he couldn’t explain

and we all know the truth about Thomas Jefferson’s name”

(suddenly William Randolph Hurst rises from the grave and bellows out in an Orson Welles
voice:)

“Franklin D. Roosevelt wasn’t no square

with that raging Woodrow in his wheelchair

and all the lesbians snickered that Elenor didn’t care

and John Kennedy’s penis was seen everywhere”

(once again everyone breaks out in gleeful song:)

“THE PRESIDENT’S PENIS IS MISSING OLE’!!!

WE SEARCHED HIGH AND LOW EVERY NIGHT EVERY DAY

LORD WON’T YOU COME DOWN AND REDEEM US

HAS ANYONE SEEN THE PRESIDENT’S PENIS?”

(the scene shifts to Sen. John Glenn, wandering pensively, somewhere in space:)

“Them outer space people would laugh if they’d seen us

all this talk about cum-stains and oral coitus

meanwhile the whole world suffers from hunger and meanness

but we’re more concerned with the President’s penis”

THE END?
lyrics by Patterson Hood (c) 1998 Soul Dump Music

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TAILS FACING UP
[G]Me and my brother's old lady went out and got [Cadd9]stinking,
she s[G]olved her curiosities about me by the railroad [D]tracks.
She [G]said I reminded her of him before he started [Cadd9]drinking
and [G]banging the babysitter [D]every time she turned her [G]back.

[Cadd9]We opened up the sunroof and smoked a big ole [G]joint
and drank a case of Pabst Blue Ribbon listening to the crickets and [D]trains.
[Cadd9]Every so often she'd lapse into narcotic r[G]ambling.[Cadd9]
[Asus2]Moon and mascara.[Em7]         I[Asus2]'ve always been a [Cadd9]holy terror.
[Asus2]               [G]     [Cadd9]           [Asus2]
Temptations[Cadd9] lurking every where. If your mind's in the gutter, Beware!
You'll find me [G]there.

Me and a friend were talking after the funeral.

She said it should have been me but I'm still around and I been so wild,

I'm surprised I made it to the seventh grade, and all my dead friends have settled down.

My eyes were puffy and she asked if I'd been crying.

I said 'tears are for pussies' but who was I kidding.

So we stopped at the bar and drank them dry. Beer and tequila.

I've always been a thrill seeker. But thrills are a dime a dozen these days.

And I found a dime in the gutter today. Tails facing up. Still fucking up. Still fucking up.

A funny thing happened on my way to a strange way of thinking.

lyrics by Patterson Hood
music by Drive-by Truckers (Cooley, Hood, Howell, Lane, Neff)
©1998 Soul Dump Music

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LOVE LIKE THIS

Play D/Db as follows

[E]-2-
[B]-3-
[G]-2-
[D]-x-
[A]-4-
[E]

LOVE LIKE THIS
[D]        [A]         [D]

[A]                                               [G]
Coming hom[A]e with a bottle, trying not to break the seal.
[A]                                                      [G]
This Friday evening [D]traffic's about enough to break a man's will.
[G]                                              [D]
And I ca[Bm]n't wait to see you and see how your week has gone,
and tear into[E] Old No.7 and make love till dawn.   [A]

But your Mama she'll be calling, if she ain't knocking on the door.
And it won't take me long to remember what I brought that bottle home for.
And we'll all get to fighting, just like we always do.And by Saturday morning,
I'll be singing these blues.

Last ni[G]ght I slept with my boots on ag[A]ain,
[D]one cut on my forehead and one my ch[Bm]in,
          [G]                           [A]                           [D]

on the hard old floor with nothin to cover up with.
You go[G]t me real good, girl, and I must admit, [A]
you pack purty [D]mean punch for such a pretty little dish. [Bm]
               [G]                                       [A]
And it[D]'s a shame to know most folks don't ever know love like this.

Come Monday morning, I'll be sore to a fare-thee-well.
Cussin' God and America, wishing them both just to send me off to hell.
But the boss man don't want no excuses when it comes time to get on the clock.
And without that paycheck, I'd lose the rest of what sweet love I got.

Last night I slept with my boots on again,one cut on my forehead and one my chin,
on the hard old floor with nothin to cover up with.
You got me real good, girl, and I must admit,
you pack purty mean punch for such a pretty little dish.
And it's a shame to know most folks don't ever know love like this

lyrics by Mike Cooley
music by Drive-by Truckers
©1998 Soul Dump Music

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Mrs. Dubose
Jupiter mules kickin' out all the stops
Newfangled dogs danglin' stars from her eyelids
She can't read between the lies anymore
Lord, help her rise just one more time if you can.
Still, the children read to her
till she opens up her hands

When my body dies will you remember my name?
When my body dies will you remember my name?

Oh, Mrs. Dubose you were such a flower
now you're all dead inside withered and insane
Oh, Mrs. Dubose you were such a flower, you got the death,
the dust, and the opium runnin' through your veins
Black maid stays cause she's paid to be around
Condemned and scared for all she knows
You better look at the road when you pass
she gonna fix you with that evil eye
unless your hotdin' your old man's hand
you better pass on by better pass on by

lyrics by Rob Malone
music by Drive-by Truckers
©1998 Soul Dump Music

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Zoloft


Notes in these are not full chords. Just use the notes as a walkdown.

[G]

All my family problems disappeared over night
[D]We're all taking Zoloft and everything is [G]fine
My sister's teen angst just flew out the w[D]indow
Mama's so happy she l[C]augh[B]s [A]al[G]l the ti[G]me

[G]Used to have trouble getting along with each other
[D]Mama's hating Daddy, I'm hating little b[G]rother
Then the family doctor gave us all these little pi[D]lls
Now I can't believe how g[C]rea[B]t[A] w[G]e all feel

All my family problems disappeared over night

We're all taking Zoloft and everything is fine

My sister's teen angst just flew out the window

Mama's so happy she laughs all the time

The birds in the trees all sing them happy songs

Everyone is smiling, we're so glad to be alive

Even my old pit bull don't growl anymore

He just watches tail wag from side to side

All my family problems disappeared over night

We're all taking Zoloft and everything is fine

My sister's teen angst just flew out the window

Mama's so happy she laughs till she cries

I used to be so unhappy singing songs about killing

Taking methodone and jacking off four or five times a day

But now I'm so happy, I'm so goddamned happy

Who needs an orgasm when life's so fucking great

All my family problems disappeared over night

We're all taking Zoloft and everything is fine

My sister's teen angst just flew out the window

Mama's so happy she cries all the time

Patterson Hood / Drive-By Truckers
© Soul Dump Music (BMI)

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THE NIGHT GG ALLIN CAME TO TOWN
(chords submitted by Brian Howard. Thanks!)

[G]         [D]
      [G]         [D]           [C]     [D]

We were bored, there was nothing going on.

                [C]      [D]    [G]
[D]    [G]   [D]        [C]     [D]

Might as well stay at home and drink until we pass out again.

            [C]                    [D]

Then drink some more when the morning comes.

[Em9]          [D]                  [C]

Memphis was sinking into the Mississippi.

[Em9]              [D]                     [C]

We were doing our best just to ride it down.

[C]

Till the night G.G. Allin came to town.

   [G]                     [D]           [G]

"Honey, I dont believe this,"

    [D]                      [C] [D]
  [C]                   [D]

the old man at Ferguson's Cafe kept saying to his wife.

[G]
            [D]   [G]    [D]                       [C]    [D]
              [C]

As he read aloud The Memphis Star and their account of what went down

        [D]

 that night

[Em9]                [D]           [C]       [Em9]
       [D]

"It says He took a shit on the stage and started throwing it into

       [C]

 the crowd.

           [Em9]             [D]                   [C]

But He was gone before the cops could come and shut him down."

                           [D]

Gone before the shit came down.

[C]                             [D]

The Night G.G. Allin Came to Town.

[G]               [D]             [C]

The Night G.C. Allin Came to Town.

 [G]              [D]       [C]

Antenna Club, Memphis, 1991.

[G]
                    [D]             [C]

Punk Rockers Paid $12.00 to be Shit On!

The Night
G.G. Allin Came to Town

  [Em9]                 [D]
              [C]

"It says He took the microphone and shoved it up his ass!"

   [Em9]
               [D]         [C]

The old man and his wife were aghast

The Night [G].[G]
. Allin Came to Town.

The Night G.G. Allin Came to Town.

lyrics by Patterson Hood (c) 1998 Soul Dump Music

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