'The Ride' by David Allan Coe - Guitar Tutorial

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I was thumbin' back from Montgomery  
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with a guitar on my back 
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When a stranger pulled up beside me in an antique Cadillac. 
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Well, he was dressed like 1950, half drunk and hallow eyed 
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Its a long walk to Nashville, would you like a ride, son. 
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He sat down in the front seat, and turned on the radio 
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and them sad old songs comin' outta them speakers was solid 
country gold. 
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Then I noticed the stranger was ghost white pale 
when he asked me for a light. 
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And knew there was somethin' strange about this ride. 
 
CHORUS: 
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He said: Mister can you make folks cry when you play and sang. 
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Can you pay your dues, can you moan the blues 
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Can you bend them guitar strangs. 
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He said: Boy, can you make folks feel what you feel inside, 
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Cause if your big star bound let me warn you its a long hard ride. 
 
2. Well, he cried just south of Nashville, 
and he turned that car around. 
he said: (spoken) this is where you get off, boy  
cause I'm going back to Alabam'. 
I stepped out of that ole Cadillac and I said Mister, many thanks. 
he said you don't have to call me mister, Mister. 
The whole world calls me Hank.