23 - Chayce Beckham, guitar chords

Published: 2023-12-20 16:12
Selection chords: Ethan Cooper

Intro: G#m B F# C#m x2

Verse:
    G#m         B               F#          C#m
Simple as my mama said when I was very young
     G#m                 B              F#              C#m
She told me, "Not to worry, son, one day, youʼll be someone"
     G#m             B               F#               C#m
But here I Am at twenty one as loaded as a stagecoach shotgun
      G#m            B                   F# C#m
Iʼm sorry, Mama, please donʼt look at me

         G#m                        B
When I got to Oklahoma, I was seventeen
          F#                          C#m
My papa taught me how to work, and Lord, he was mean
   G#m                       B
Workinʼ all day in that August heat
         F#                               C#m
And he taught me how to fish, my uncle taught me how to drink

          G#m                       B
Well, I went to California and I had me a band
          F#                                 C#m
And we played in all the bars in all the southern lands
     G#m                       B
We played all night and we drank for free
   F#               C#m
All of my boys and me

Chorus:
 G#m        B
Now Iʼm twenty three
           F#                      C#m
And thеre ainʼt nobody who can drink like me
  G#m              B
Soon, Iʼll bе twenty four
           F#                       C#m
And the Lord knows that I canʼt drink no more
 G#m                 B
I know I shoulda taken it slow
     F#                 C#m        G#m  B
Itʼs not the way that my life goes
         F#  C#m
Now I know

              G#m         B         F#
When youʼre passed out on the floor
       C#m                G#m
Youʼre sober by twenty four

G#m B F# C#m

Verse:
         G#m                          B
Well, I had a girl who loved me the whole damn time
      F#                        C#m
And Iʼd drink my whiskey and sheʼd drink wine
    G#m                     B             F# C#m
But soon, my bottle was too much to company

            G#m                          B
Yeah, weʼd sit on the river and weʼd fish all day
           F#                                  C#m
And weʼd drive across the country, let the radio play
  G#m                   B                   F# C#m
Seven damn years, I never thought sheʼd leave

Chorus:
 G#m        B
Now Iʼm twenty three
           F#                      C#m
And thеre ainʼt nobody who can drink like me
  G#m              B
Soon, Iʼll bе twenty four
           F#                       C#m
And the Lord knows that I canʼt drink no more
 G#m                 B
I know I shoulda taken it slow
     F#                 C#m        G#m  B
Itʼs not the way that my life goes
         F#  C#m
Now I know

              G#m         B         F#
When youʼre passed out on the floor
       C#m                G#m
Youʼre sober by twenty four

Outro:
    G#m         B               F#          C#m
Simple as my mama said when I was very young
     G#m                 B              F#              C#m
She told me, "Not to worry, son, one day, youʼll be someone"
     G#m             B               F#               C#m
But here I Am at twenty one as loaded as a stagecoach shotgun
      G#m            B                   F# C#m
Iʼm sorry, Mama, please donʼt look at me