| Song Name: All I can do is write About it |
| Artist: Lynyrd Skynyrd |
| Album: Gimme Back my Bullets |
| (I think the Clean Electric in this song has a little Chorus. But if you do this song fully Acoustic, itll give you cold chills.) |
| Transcribed by: Eric Snyder |
| Intro: G D Em C/ G D C (stop on C) |
| G | D | Em | C | G | G | C | |
| Verse: Well this | life that I | live has | took me every | where | theyre aint no | place I aint never | gone. |
| G | D | Em | C | G | D | C | |
| Well its | kinda like the | saying that youve | heard so many | times. Well, theres | just aint | no place like | home. |
| G | D | C |
| G | D | Em | C | G | D | C | |
| Verse: If youve | ever seen a | She Gator | protect her | youngin. Or a | fish in the | river swimming | free. |
| G | D | Em | C | G | D | C | |
| Did you | ever see the | beauty of the | hills of | Carolina? Or the | sweetness of the | grass of | Tennessee? |
| G | D | C | G | D | C | |
| Chorus: And | Lord, I cant | make any | changes. | All I can do is | write em in a | song. |
| G | D | Em | C | G | D | C | |
| Yes, but | I can see the | concrete a | slowly | creeping. | Lord take me and | mine before that | comes. |
| (A little Fiddle playing, here are the chords.) |
| G D C (twice) |
| G | D | C | G | D | C | |
| Verse: Do ya | like to see a | Mountain stream a | flowin? Do ya | like to see a | youngin with his | dog? |
| G | D | Em | C | G | D | C | |
| Did ya | ever stop and | think about well the | air youre | breathing? Well | ya better | listen to my | song. |
| Repeat Chorus |
| G | A | |
| (Another Instrumental break, I dont have my guitar handy, but I think it either stays in | or goes to possibly | . If you find out 100% sure, tell me.) |
| G | D | C | G | D | C | |
| Verse: Im not | trying to put down | no big | city. But the | things they write about | us is just a | bore. |
| G | D | Em | C | G | D | C | |
| You can | take a boy out | of ol | Dixie | land, Lord, but youll | never take ol | Dixie from a | boy. |
| Repeat Chorus |
| G | D | Em | |
| Repeat last line of Chorus and end with: And | Lord take me and | mine before that | comes |
| (On last line, only hit chord once. This a great song, my e-mail is esnyder@zeus.chapel1.com) My favorite line is, "You can take a boy out of ol Dixie Land, but youll never take ol Dixie from a boy." That is so daggon true! Thanks see-ya! |
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