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TABBY CAT MUSIC ARCHIVES 

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Transcribed by: asf0@comcast.net  Alice Franceschini
Date: May 1, 2003   
Album:  Single released from the future album Red Dirt Road
Written by:
Note: n.c. means no chord played

         RED DIRT ROAD   Brooks & Dunn

Listening to the recording for timing
Intro notes repeat (about 4x)    
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Intro Bass notes with chords to be play with the intro notes above
This bass line is played only once.
 F    C   Bb
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        F                           
I was raised off of rural route three
     C
Out past where the black top ends
      Dm
We'd walked to church on Sunday morning
       Bb 
Race barefoot back to Johnson's fence
 F
That's where I first saw Mary
C                                       Dm
On that road side pickin' black berries
                         F           Bb           C         F 
That summer I turn the corner in my soul  out on Red Dirt road

CHORUS:
               F                  C
It's where I drank my first beer    It's where I found Jesus
Dm                                Bb   
  Where I wrecked my first car I tore it all to pieces
F                       C  
  I learn the path to heaven Is full of sinners and believers
Dm                                       Bb 
  Learned that happiness on earth Ain't just for high achievers
    Gm                Am                   Bb       C  n.c.               F C Bb               
I learned; I come to know There's life at both ends    of that red dirt road



 F
Her daddy didn't like me much
          C
In my shackled up G.T.O.
Dm
  I'd sneaked out in the middle of the night
       Bb
Throw rocks at her bedroom window
F                        
We'd turned out the headlights
C
Drive by the moonlight
Dm                                   Bb
   Talk about what the future might hold
           C         F       
Down that red dirt road


to chorus, to lead
    C                Dm       Bb        C 
I went out into the world  I came back in
        Dm                Bb   
I lost Mary Oh I got her back again
Gm                   Am
But driving home to-night
                      Bb         C  
Feels like I found a long lost friend

To chorus, to instrumental ending