These Are My People
Rodney AtkinsVersion1
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Chords in this song
Strum
D-DU-UDU
x 2
Well we grew up down by the railroad tracks
Shootin' b.b.'s at old beer cans
Chokin' on the smoke from a lucky strike
Somebody lifted off of his old man
We were football flunkies
Southern rock junkies
Crackin' up the stere os
Singin' loud and proud to Am "Gimme Three Steps"
"Simple Man" and "Curtis Low"
We were good, ya know
We got some C discount C/B knowledge at the Am junior G college
Where we F majored in G beer and C girls
It was all real C/B funny til we Am ran out of G money
And they F threw us out G into the C world
Yeah the kids that C/B thought they'd Am run this G town
Ain't F runnin' much of G any C thing
We're just lovin' and C/B laughin'
And Am bustin' our G asses
And we F call it all G livin' the C dream
These are my F people G
This is where C I come from
We're F givin' this life every G thing we've got and C then some
It ain't always F pretty G
But it's C real
That's the C way we were C/B made
Wouldn't Am have it any G other F way
These are my people
Well we take it all week on the chin with a grin
Till we make it to a friday night
And it's church league softball holler bout a bad call
Preacher breakin' up the fight
Then later on at the green light tavern
Well everybody's gatherin' as friends
And the beer is pourin' till monday mornin'
Where we start all over again
Repeat Chorus
We C fall G down and we get up
We walk F proud and we talk tough
We C got G heart and we got nerve
F Even if we are a G bit disturbed
Repeat Chorus
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Readable chord sheet for These Are My People by Rodney Atkins
[C] [C/B] [Am] [G] [F] [C] x 2 Well we [C] grew up [C/B] down by the [Am] railroad [G] tracks Shootin' [F] b.b.'s at [G] old beer [C] cans Chokin' on the [C/B] smoke from a [Am] lucky strike [G] Somebody [F] lifted off of [G] his old [C] man We were football [C/B] flunkies [Am] Southern rock [G] junkies [F] Crackin' up the [G] stere [C] os Singin' loud and [C/B] proud to Am "Gimme Three [G] Steps" "Simple [F] Man" and [G] "Curtis [C] Low" We were good, ya know [C] [C/B] [Am] [G] [F] [G] [C] We got some C discount C/B knowledge at the Am junior G college Where we F majored in G beer and C girls It was all real C/B funny til we Am ran out of G money And they F threw us out G into the C world Yeah the kids that C/B thought they'd Am run this G town Ain't F runnin' much of G any C thing We're just lovin' and C/B laughin' And Am bustin' our G asses And we F call it all G livin' the C dream These are my F people G This is where C I come from We're F givin' this life every G thing we've got and C then some It ain't always F pretty G But it's C real That's the C way we were C/B made Wouldn't Am have it any G other F way These are my [C] people [C] [C/B] [Am] [G] [F] [G] [C] Well we take it all week on the chin with a grin Till we make it to a friday night And it's church league softball holler bout a bad call Preacher breakin' up the fight Then later on at the green light tavern Well everybody's gatherin' as friends And the beer is pourin' till monday mornin' Where we start all over again Repeat Chorus We C fall G down and we get up We walk F proud and we talk tough We C got G heart and we got nerve F Even if we are a G bit disturbed Repeat Chorus