23 Chords by Chayce Beckham

[Start]

[Intro]
Cm7 Bb Cm Eb Bb Fm
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[Verse]
Cm           Eb             Bb         Fm   
Simple as my mama said when I was very young
    Cm          Eb          
She told me not to worry son
Bb                Ab     
One day you'll be someone
    Cm           Eb       
But here I am at twentyone
   Bb          Fm                
As loaded as a stagecoach shotgun
Cm            
I'm sorry mama
Eb                   Bb Fm
Please don't look at me ■ 
       Cm                    Eb       
When I got to Oklahoma I was seventeen
        Bb                             Ab         
My papa taught me how to work and Lord he was mean
Cm                 Eb              
Working all day in that August heat
Bb                      
He taught me how to fish
         Ab               Fm   
My uncle taught me how to drink
       Cm                    Eb           
Well I went California and I had me a band
       Bb                                Ab            
And we played in all the bars in all the southern lands
Cm                         Eb            
We played all night and we drank for free
Bb                 Ab Fm
All of my boys and me ■ 


[Chorus]
Cm      Eb              Bb                         Fm           
Now I'm twentythree and there ain't nobody who can drink like me
C7   Cm      Eb                 Bb                      Fm           
Soon I'll be twentyfour and the Lord knows that I can't drink no more
Cm               Eb           
I know I shoulda taken it slow
Bb                    Fm      Cm  
It's not the way that my life goes
Eb       Bb   Fm
■  Now I know ■ 
            Cm     Eb         Bb   
When you're passed out on the floor
       Fm                 
You're sober by twentyfour
Cm Eb Bb Cm
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[Verse]
                                   Eb             
Well I had a girl who loved me the whole damn time
    Bb                       Cm              
And I'd drink my whiskey and she'd drink wine
                       Eb                    
But soon my bottle was too much to comfort me
Bb   Fm      Cm                        Eb          
Yeah ■  we'd sit on the river and we'd fish all day
         Bb                               Cm        
And we'd drive across the country let the radio play
                   Eb                  Bb   
Seven damn years I never thought she'd leave
Cm Ab G7 Cm
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[Chorus]
        Eb              Bb                         Fm           
Now I'm twentythree and there ain't nobody who can drink like me
Cm           Eb                 Bb                      Fm           
Soon I'll be twentyfour and the Lord knows that I can't drink no more
Cm               Eb           
I know I shoulda taken it slow
Bb                    Fm      Cm  
It's not the way that my life goes
Eb        Bb  
■  Lord I know
F7 Fm F7 Fm7 F7
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[Bridge]
            Cm         Eb     Bb   
When you're passed out on the floor
Fm              Cm        
You're sober by twentyfour
Eb Bb Cm Eb Bb Cm
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[Chorus]
          Eb           Bb              Fm   
Simple as my mama said when I was very young
Cm          Eb              
She told me not to worry son
    Bb            Fm     
One day you'll be someone
Cm                        
But here I am at twentyone
Bb             Fm                
As loaded as a stagecoach shotgun
    Cm         Eb
I'm sorry mama ■ 
Bb                      Gsus4 Cm
Please don't look at me ■     ■ 


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