{"id":4270,"date":"2021-11-06T04:41:58","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T04:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=4270"},"modified":"2025-11-21T06:11:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T06:11:49","slug":"tobacco-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/tobacco-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Tobacco Road"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Nashville Teens, <\/span><\/div>\n
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[ C-D] I was born [ C-D] in a trunk.\u00a0 [ C-D]\u00a0<\/span>Mama died and [ C-D] my daddy got drunk.<\/span><\/span>
\n[ C-D] Left me here [ C-D] to die alone [ C-D]\u00a0<\/span>In the middle of [C] Tobacco Road.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
–<\/div>\n
[ C-D] Grew up [ C-D] in rusty shack; [ C-D] a<\/span>ll I had was [ C-D] hangin’ on my back.<\/span><\/span>
\n[ C-D] Only you know h[ C-D] ow I loathe [ C-D] t<\/span>his place called [C] Tobacco Road.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
–<\/div>\n
But it’s [G] home, the only [G7] life I ever [D] known.<\/span>
\nOnly [D7] you know how I [G] loathe Tobacco [D] Road.<\/span><\/div>\n
–<\/div>\n
Interlude\u00a0 [ C-D]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [ C-D]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [ C-D]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [ C-D]
\n<\/span><\/div>\n
–<\/div>\n
[ C-D] Gonna leave, [ C-D] get a job; [ C-D] w<\/span>ith the help and the[ C-D] grace from above.<\/span><\/span>
\n[ C-D] Save some money, [ C-D] get rich and old.\u00a0 [ C-D]\u00a0<\/span>Bring it back to [C] Tobacco Road.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
–<\/div>\n
[ C-D] Bring that dynamite [ C-D] and a crane.\u00a0 [ C-D]\u00a0<\/span>Blow it up, start [ C-D] all over again.<\/span><\/span>
\n[ C-D] Build a town, [ C-D] be proud to show.\u00a0 [ C-D]\u00a0<\/span>Gives the name [C] Tobacco Road.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
–<\/div>\n
But it’s [G] home, the only [G7] life I ever [D] known.
\nOnly [D7] you know how I [G] loathe Tobacco [D] Road.<\/span><\/div>\n
–<\/div>\n
But it’s [G] home, the only [G7] life I ever [D] known<\/span>
\nOh I [D7] despise . . . and [G] disapprove . . . but I love ya.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Cause it’s [D] home.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0 [ C-D]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [ C-D]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [ C-D]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [ C-D]
\n<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Nashville Teens, [ C-D] I was born [ C-D] in a trunk.\u00a0 [ C-D]\u00a0Mama died and [ C-D] my daddy got drunk. [ C-D] Left me here [ C-D] to die alone [ C-D]\u00a0In the middle of [C] Tobacco Road. – [ C-D] Grew up [ C-D] in rusty … CLICK TO VIEW SONGTobacco Road<\/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":[133,126,13,116,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-x-bill-chase","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4270","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=4270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}