Dirt (video)

C - F - Am - F - G

C

1. You get your hands in it, plant your roots in it,

F - Am - F - G

dusty head lights dance with your boots in it (dirt).

C

You write her name on it, spin your tires on it,

F - Am

build your corn field, whiskey, bonfires on it (dirt).

- F - G

You bet your life on it.

C

It’s that elm shade red roads clay you grew up on,

F

that plowed up ground that your dad damned his luck on,

C

that post game party field you circled up on,

- F

and when it rains you get stuck on.

C

Drifting clouds back behind county roads that you run up,

F

the mud on her jeans that she peeled off and hung up,

C Am F

her blue eyed summer time smile looks so good that it hurts.

Am

Makes you wanna build A 10 percent down

G C

white picket fence house on this dirt.

C

2. You’ve mixed some sweat with it, taken a shovel to it,

F

you’ve stuck some crosses and some painted

- Am

goal posts through it (dirt).

F

You know you came from it (dirt),

G

and some day you’ll return to ....

F

+ CHORUS + (dirt)

Am - F

+ You know you came from it (dirt)

G

and some day you'll return to it.

+ CHORUS

Am

+ Makes you wanna build A 10 percent down

G C F

white picket fence house on this dirt (dirt).

Am - F

You know you came from it,

- C

and some day you’ll return to it.

(orig. = capo 2nd) (Florida Georgia Line)