Nothingville - Big Boss Man - Guitar Man - Little Egypt - Trouble - Guitar Man

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  Nothingville
                    D
Only just a two-bit town
                D
Where nothing's real
C
  They treat me like a country clown
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Nothingville
G
  I ain't gonna keep-a-hangin' round'
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The doors keep slammin' in my face
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People keep puttin' me in my place
       A                       G
It's a rat's race at a snail's pace
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Nothingville...
             G
Nothingville
D
Nothingville....


[Bridge]

Ab    Gb  A  Gb  F  Db  Ab  Db  Bb


[Verse 2]

    Gb
Big boss man, can't you hear me when I call?
    Gb
Big boss man, can't you hear me when I call?
          Gb
Can't you hear me when I call?
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Big boss man,      can't you hear me when I call?
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Well you ain't so big, you're just tall that's all
                Gb
Well you got me workin' boss man
        Gb
Workin' round the clock
        Gb
I wanna little drink of water
    E             A
But you won't let big Al stop
    Bm                                    Gb
Big boss man now can't you hear me when I call
         Db              Bm                     Eb          Db
you know you ain't so big, you know you're just tall that's all


[Bridge]

D            A    D      Eb  Bbm  Eb      Bbm


[Verse 3]

Ab
So I slept in the hobo jungles,
Ab
Roamed a thousand miles of track,
Eb
Till I found myself in Mobile Alabama,
Eb
At a club they call Big Jack's,
         Ab
A little four-piece band was jammin',
     Ab
So I took my guitar and I sat in,
  F
I showed 'em what a band would sound like,
       Bbm
With a swingin' little guitar man.
              Eb      Bm      Eb      Bm
Show 'em, son


[Verse 4]

            E
Come on and buy yourself a ticket and I sat down in the very first row
A                 E                          A
  They pulled the curtain but then when they turned the spotlight way down low
       Bm
Little Egypt came out a-struttin' wearin' nothin' but a b***on and a bow
A                              Bm   Gb    G
Singing, ying-ying, ying-ying, ying-ying, ying-ying
E
Stranger


[Bridge]

N.C.
Some cymbals and trumpets, then silence, then
Ab      Bbm  F  Eb  F  G  C


[Verse 5]

C
If you're looking for trouble
                      G     F
You came to the right place
                              C
If you're looking for trouble
                           C
Just look right in my face
                       C
I was born standing up
                 G
And talking back
   C
My daddy was a green-eyed mountain jack
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Because I'm evil, my middle name is misery
          G   F             C
Well I'm evil, so don't you mess around with me


[Instru0mental]

C            F  C


[Verse 6]

C
I've never looked for trouble
C
But I've never ran
C
I don't take no orders
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From no kind of man
              C
I'm only made out
                    G
Of flesh, blood and bone
              C
But if you're gonna start a rumble
          Cm
Don't you try it on alone
             F              Eb          C
Because I'm evil, my middle name is misery
          G    F                 Eb               C
Well I'm evil, jah, so don't you mess around with me


[Bridge]

F    C    F    Eb        E      Eb  Bm


[Verse 7]

              E
Well i come a long wa from the car wash
   E
to got to were i said that i would get
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now that i am here i really know for sure i really aren't there yet
     A
so i think i start all over
       A
lay my guitar over my back
E
  i wanna get myself right on the track and i never never going back
Bm
i'll never be more what i am,
A                               D               C
wouldn't you know i am a little swinging guitar man
                              E
take it home son, take it home


[Outro]

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