Brightleaf And Burley - American Aquarium Chords

Chords: Am, F, C, G, Burley, G/B

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Genre: rock, country, americana

[Verse 1]

Am
Our name's been on that mailbox

F C
The last 100 years

Am
We're the walking definition

F C
Of blood, sweat and tears

Am
You ask them who we are

G F
They'll tell you mean and surly

Am G
We're the keepers of tradition

F C

That Brightleaf and Burley

[Chorus]

F C
We get low down

F C
We get high as a kite

F C
Lord I wish I may

G
Lord I wish I might

F C
Be singing this song

G C
When I hit the pearly gates

F C G C
Greetings from Tobacco Town, USA

F C G C G/B
Greetings from Tobacco Town, USA

[Verse 2]

Am
I've been wandering these roads

F C
Since I was 3 years old

Am
Watching the men I thought were gods

F C
Turning green leafs into gold

Am
Now the fields they all lay empty

G F
Curing barns are growing cold

Am G
All the while another cash crop

F C
Just begging to be sold

Am
Yeah, we got the infrastructure

F C
Lord know's we got the will

Am
But a solution to a problem

F C
Doesn't pay that problem's bills

Am
So they'll keep calling it illegal

G F
Keep pumping us with pills

Am G
Tell Roosevelt what the Bible Belt

F C
Went and did to his New Deal

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