C                D 
Country deejays knows that 
        G 
I'm an outlaw 
        G 
They'd never come 
                   C 
To see me in this dive 
       C 
Where bikers stare at cowboys 
         G       G/F#    Em 
Who are laughing at the hippies 
          A7 
Who are praying they'll get 
             D   D7 
Outta here alive 

     C                 D 
The loud mouth in the corner's 
         G 
Gettin' to me 
 G                                C 
Talking 'bout my earrings and my hair 
    C 
I guess he ain't read the signs 
      G    G/F#     Em 
That say I been to prison 
 A7 
Someone ought to warn him 
          D                 D7 
'Fore I knock him off his chair 

           C 
'Cause my long hair just can't 
 D            G 
Cover up my red neck 
                                 C 
I've won every fight, I've ever fought 
     C 
Hey, I don't need some turkey 
         G     G/F#      Em 
Telling me that I ain't country 
     A7 
And sayin' I ain't worth the damned ol' 
 D     D7M      D7 
Ticket that he bought 

              G 
'Cause I can sing 
          G7          C 
All them songs about Texas 
D 
  And I still do 
D7                        G         
All the sad ones that I know 
      G 
They tell me 
   G7              C 
I look like Merle Haggard 
     A7 
And sound a lot like 
             D  D7 
David Allen Coe 

         C               D 
And the bar maid in the last town 
          G 
That we played in 
                                   C 
Knew the words to every song I'd wrote 
                                   G 
She said, Jimmy Rabbitt turned her on 
   G/F#    Em 
To my last album 
 A7                               D 
Just about the time the jukebox broke 

       C                  D 
Yeah, Johnny Cash helped me 
               G 
Get out of prison 
                                  C 
Long before Rodriguez stole that goat 
C 
I've been the Rhinestone Cowboy 
        G       G/F#    Em 
For so long, I can't remember 
    A7 
And I can do you every song 
      D      D7M     D7 
Hank Williams ever wrote 

           G 
And I can sing 
          G7          C 
All them songs about Texas 
D 
  And I still do 
D7                        G         
All the sad ones that I know 
      G 
They tell me 
   G7              C 
I look like Merle Haggard 
     A7 
And sound a lot like 
             D  D7 
David Allen Coe 

         C               D 
But the country deejays, all think 
        G 
I'm an outlaw 
            G 
And they'd never come 
                   C 
To see me in this dive 
       C 
Where bikers stare at cowboys 
         G       G/F#     Em 
Who are laughing at the hippies 
          A7 
Who are praying they'll get 
             D 
Outta here alive