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Em7

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Cadd9

and the riff:

Em7

Cadd9

Lyrics:

My names Billy Jo Mckay

I just turned 16 yesterday

Im gonna get the nerve one day to get outa here

My ma passed on 3 years ago

They said it was cancer and it took her slow

Ever since then i been saying no to my daddy and my tears

riff

If you come down our road you gotta watch the bump

Right there across from the garbage dump

You can find me out back jumping on the trampoline

In the spring time well be skipping schoool

Sneak off to the can trail swimming pool

Man you just cant get much cooler, me and my friend Arlene

riff X2

My grandaddy hands are worn

From 50 years of growing corn

Back behind the house where i was born

Before he had to sell

My cousin Eddy

He got shot

In a wallmart parking lot

This little towns changed a lot

He said it hurt like hell

riff X3

Mmmmhmmmm

My names Billy Jo Mckay

Its a hot Mississippi summer Saturday

Daddys on the front porch with Uncle Dave

Drinking Dixies beer

16 years of being bored

The windows open

Forget the door

Hope theres some gas in the old mans ford

Cuz im outa here

Ah Im outa here

Ah Im out of here

Ooooh Im out of here

Hey Oooooh im out of here

Hey, said im outa here

Picks, hammers and slides the chords here quietly, I can't work it out..

if you can, please let me know how.

then he basically whispers this:

Maybe I'll go down to New Blatski...?? (can't make out words....don't

Maybe to New Orleans know to many US states, lol)

Maybe to Los Angeles...

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Ballad Of Billy Jo Mckay

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