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Cracklins

The Gourds

Chord: Principal (acoustic and electric guitars)
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key: Em
C/B = X2X010
Fsus4 = XX3311

[Intro]
N.C.
Yessir c'mon
G  F
G  F
G  F
C C/B G   x2

[Verse 1]
G          F       G       F         G   F  C C/B G
Thirty-one days my fingers feel like rain
     G        F        G         F     G   F  C C/B G
This jail was built on cracklins and cocaine
  G       F          G        F     G      F  C C/B G
Policemen knocked me down and then charged me
     G       F     G      F  G   F
With smokin' and inciting vagrancy
       C   C/B    G
Yes he did yes he did

[Chorus]
C               Em
Chicken sneezed eatin' my cracklins
D           C7
Butterercup bloomin' in the badlands
G             Em
Kaboom kaboom piss on the curses
A        C7
Hospital kiss all the nurses
G  C        F  Fsus4 F
I... got to find
D      B7            Em
  Some weed and some wine
G      C           F Fsus4 F
I have just got to find
D    C
Some trouble sometime

[Interlude]
G  F
G  F
G  F
C C/B G x2

[Verse 2]
     G   F    G        F      G    F  C C/B G
Them Navasota troopers ran me down
  G      F  G     F      G  F  C C/B G
Escorted me right out of town
     G     F       G             F       G   F  C C/B G
For cherry pickin' squirrels and feedin' dogs
    G        F    G     F    G    F
And dreamin' of Jamaica in a fog
       C   C/B    G
Yes he did yes he did

[Chorus]
C               Em
Chicken sneezed eatin' my cracklins
D           C7
Butterercup bloomin' in the badlands
G             Em
Kaboom kaboom piss on the curses
A        C7
Hospital kiss all the nurses
G  C        F  Fsus4 F
I... got to find
D      B7            Em
  Some weed and some wine
G      C           F Fsus4 F
I have just got to find
D    C
Some trouble sometime

[Interlude]
G  F
G  F
G  F
C C/B G x2

[Verse 3]
     G    F      G       F       G   F  C C/B G
Them Mississippi state police chased me
     G     F       G      F   G   F  C C/B G
Pascagoula all the way to Metarie
           G       F    G      F       G   F    C C/B G
I robbed a federal bank with a rack of ribs
  G      F          G           F     G   F
A jar of sauce some white bread and a bib
      C   C/B    G
Yes I did yes I did

[Chorus]
C               Em
Chicken sneezed eatin' my cracklins
D           C7
Butterercup bloomin' in the badlands
G             Em
Kaboom kaboom piss on the curses
A        C7
Hospital kiss all the nurses
G  C        F  Fsus4 F
I... got to find
D      B7            Em
  Some weed and some wine
G      C           F Fsus4 F
I have just got to find
D    C
Some trouble sometime

[Interlude]
G  F
G  F
G  F
C C/B G x2

[Outro]
             G                F                 G
I was eatin' cracklins as the Feds were closin' in
                 G           F                G
They watched the water as my car went rollin' in
                G             F               G
The dragged the river and notified my next of kin
                    F          C        G
But brother pigs do fly... and so can a man
          D7
When he's full... of fried pork skins

[Interlude]
G  F
G  F
G  F
C C/B G x4
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