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TABBY CAT MUSIC ARCHIVES
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Transcribed by: asf0@comcast.net Alice Franceschini
Date: May 31 2002
Album: No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problem
Written by:
Note: n.c. means play no chord
THE GOOD STUFF Kenny Chesney
G D
Well, me and my lady had our first big fight
C D
So I drove around till I saw the neon lights
C G Am D
Of a corner bar and it just seemed right so I pulled up
G D
Not a soul around but the old bar keep
C D
Down at the end and lookin' half asleep
C G
He walked up and said "What'll it be?"
Am Em C
I said, "The Good Stuff."
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C
He didn't reach around for the whiskey
C
He didn't pour me a beer
C
His blue eyes kind of went misty
D n.c.
He said, "You can't find that here."
G D
Cause it's the first long kiss on a second date
C D
Momma's all worried when you get home late
C G
And you drop a new ring in the spagetti plate
Am D C D
Cause you're hands are shakin' so much
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G D
And it's the way that she looks; her rice in her hair
C D
Eating burnt suppers that whole first year
C G Am D
And I stayed for seconds to keep her from tearing up
D G C
Yeah, Man that's the good stuff-uff
G D
He grabbed a carton of milk and he poured a glass
C D
And I smiled and said, "I'll have some of that."
C G Am D
We sat there and talked, as an hour passed, like old friends
G D
I saw a black and white picture and it caught my stare
C G
It was a pretty girl with bufone hair
C
He said, "That's my Bonnie."
G Am D
"Taken about a year after we wed."
C G
He said, "I spent five years in the bottle"
C D
"when the cancer took her from me."
C D
"But I've been sober three years now"
D
"cause the one thing stronger than the whiskey."
G D
"Was a shot of her holdin' my baby girl"
C D
"The way she adored that string of pearls"
C G
"I gave her the day that our youngest boy Earl"
C Am D
"Married his high school love."
G D
"And it's a new T shirt saying I'm A Grandpa"
C D
"Been right here as our town got small"
C G Am D
"And holding her hand when the good Lord called her up"
C G C
"Yeah, man, that's the good stuff-uff" lead
D
He said, "When you get home she'll start to cry."
D
"When she says 'I'm sorry' you say 'so am I'"
Em C
"Look into those eyes so deep in love"
D G C
"And drink it up, cause that's the good stuff-a-uff"
G C
"That's the good stuff-a-uff."
