{"id":204,"date":"2021-05-10T02:12:17","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T02:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=204"},"modified":"2026-03-21T22:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T22:27:08","slug":"chattahoochee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/chattahoochee\/","title":{"rendered":"Chattahoochee"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/a> Listen to Alan Jackson sing this song: <\/a>\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0<\/a><\/code><\/span><\/p>\n

NOT TOO FAST, OR I CAN'T SING IT !\r\n \r\n[Verse 1] - <\/span>[A] Way down yonder on the Chattahoochee, i<\/span><\/span>t gets hotter than a [E] hoochie [A] coochie.  <\/span><\/span>[A]<\/span> <\/span>We laid rubber on the Georgia asphalt.  <\/span><\/span>We [A] got a little crazy but we [E] never got [A] caught.\r\n<\/span><\/span>[D] Down by the river on a Friday night . . . <\/span><\/span>A [A] pyramid of cans in the [E] pale [A] moonlight.  <\/span><\/span>[D] Talking 'bout cars and dreaming 'bout women.  <\/span><\/span>[B7] We never had a plan just [E]  livin' for the minute.\r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\n{ CHORUS } - - - - - <\/span>[A] Yeah way down yonder on the Chattahoochee - - <\/span><\/span>Never knew how much that muddy water [E] meant to [A] me\r\n<\/span><\/span>But I [A]  learned how to swim and I learned who I was - - <\/span><\/span>A lot about livin' and a [E] little 'bout [A] love.\r\n<\/span><\/span><\/span> \r\n[Turnaround]               <\/span>A  E  A    A  E  A\r\n<\/span> \r\n[Verse 2] - <\/span>Well we [A] fogged up the windows in my old Chevy.  <\/span><\/span>I was willing but [E] she wasn't [A] ready, s<\/span><\/span>o we [A] settled for a burger and a grape snow cone.  <\/span><\/span>Dropped her off early but I [E] didn't go [A] home.\r\n<\/span><\/span>[D] Down by the river on a Friday night.  <\/span><\/span>A [A] pyramid of cans in the [E] pale [A] moonlight.  <\/span><\/span>[D] Talking 'bout cars and dreaming 'bout women. <\/span><\/span>[B7] Never had a plan just [E] livin' for the minute.\r\n<\/span><\/span>{ CHORUS } - - - - - <\/span><\/span>\r\n[Outro]             <\/span> A  E  A    A  E  A     \r\n           <\/span>That's right!\r\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Listen to Alan Jackson sing this song: \u00a0\u00a0 NOT TOO FAST, OR I CAN’T SING IT ! [Verse 1] – [A] Way down yonder on the Chattahoochee, it gets hotter than a [E] hoochie [A] coochie. [A] We laid rubber on the Georgia asphalt. We [A] got a little crazy … CLICK TO VIEW SONGChattahoochee<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,120,234,133,126,265,56,116,117,115,131,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-chords","category-perflive","category-alan-jackson","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-best-songs","category-country-western","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-live-tenor","category-power-outage","category-uke-juke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27550,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/27550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}