The good stuff (US country 1, 2002)     (video)

 

    G - D - Em - G - C

 

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1. Well, me and my lady had our first big fight,

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    so I drove around till I saw the neon lights,

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    at a corner bar, and it just seemed right, so I pulled up.

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    Not a soul around but the ol' barkeep,

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    down at the end lookin half asleep,

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    but he walked up and said what'll it be? I said the good stuff.

           C                                           D               C                         D

    He didn't reach around for the whiskey, he didn't pour me a beer,

             C                               D                   Em

    his blue eyes kinda went misty, he said you can't find that here,

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    Cause it's the first long kiss on a second date,

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    mamma's all worried when you get home late.

              C                                       Em

    and droppin the ring in the spaghetti plate,

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    ’cause your hands are shaking so much.

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    It's the way she looks with rice in her hair,

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    eatin’ burnt suppers the whole first year

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    and askin for seconds, to keep her from tearin up.

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    Yeah, man that's the Good Stuff !

 

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2. He grabbed a carton of milk and poured a glass,

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    and I smiled and said I'll have some of that,

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    we sat there and talked as an hour passed like ol' friends.

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    Saw a black and white picture and it caught my stare,

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    it was a pretty girl with bouffant hair,

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    he said       that's my Bonnie, takin ‘bout a year after we wed.

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    He said, I spent five years in the bottle

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    when the cancer took her from me,

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    but I've been sober three years now,

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    ’cause the one thing stronger than the whiskey was.

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    The sight of her holdin’ my baby girl,

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    the way she adored that string of pearls

        C                                     Em

    I gave her the day that our youngest boy, Earl,

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    married his high school love.

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    And it's a new T-shirt sayin’ I'm a Grandpa,

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    being right there as our time got small

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    and holding her hand, when the good Lord called her up.

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    Yeah, man, that's the good stuff !

 

+  G - D - C

 

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+  He said, when you get home she'll start to cry,

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    when she says I'm sorry, say so am I,

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    and look into those eyes so deep in love,

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    and drink it up - ’cause that's the good stuff,

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    that's the good stuff.

 

 

    (Kenny Chesney)