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Kembas Got The Cabbage Moth Blues by Shovels And Rope
Kembas Got The Cabbage Moth Blues
Tuning: standard
[[verse i]]
C
She was a hot-shit singer in a low-rent dive
C (G)
Lookin' like she wanna eat a man alive
C
Legs get to kickin' in a worn-out shoe
C (G) C
Kemba's got the cabbage moth blues
C
Laundry in Los Angeles and old St. Lou(is)
C (G)
Left Carolina with a load or two
C
Down in Kentucky got them hanging on the line
C (G) C
Mama was dressed so fine
[[chorus]]
F
Tell Kentucky how your turnip greens grow
C
Tell California everything you know
C (G) C
Tell New York, tell Tennessee, come to Carolina your drink's on me
[[verse ii]]
C
There's too much chicken in the hen house now
C (G)
Hens stay in, roosters stay out
C
See that red chicken sittin' on an egg
C (G) C
Fox caught the rooster and the rooster got dead
C
Got the water rolling in a pot of beans
C (G)
Had to keep the cabbage moth off the greens
C
Put the hot pepper right on the leaf
C (G) C
You' better wash them off good 'fore you serve them to me
[[chorus]]
F
Tell Kentucky how your turnip greens grow
C
Tell California everything you know
C (G) C
Tell New York, tell Tennessee, come to Carolina your drink's on me
[[bridge]]
F
It was a whiskey and a whiskey and a whiskey and a whiskey....
F
...and a whiskey and a whiskey and a whiskey while the music did play
C
I hope my mama didn't float away
C (G) G G7!
Because I heard that the Cumberland was out of the banks
[[chorus x2]]
F
Tell Kentucky how your turnip greens grow
C
Tell California everything you know
C (G) C
Tell New York, tell Tennessee, come to Carolina your drink's on me
F
Tell Kentucky how your turnip greens grow
C
Tell California everything you know
C (G) C
Tell New York, tell Tennessee, come to Carolina your drink's on me
C G G! F
come to Carolina and your drink's on meeeeeeeeeeeee.....
[[redneck finish]]
C C G G C
Hhhmmmmmmmmmmmm....fish and grits!
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version 2
C G
Hot shit singer in a low rent dive, looking like she wanna eat a man alive
C G
Legs getting to kicking in her worn out shoes, Kemba’s got the cabbage moth blues
C G
Laundry in Los Angeles and ol' St. Lou, left Carolina with a load or two
C G
Down in Kentucky, she got 'em hanging on the line, mama always dressed so fine
F
Tell Kentucky how ya turnip greens grow
C
Tell California every thing you know
Tell New York, tell Tennessee
G C
Come to Carolina and ya drink's on me
C G
Too much chickens in the hen house now, hens stay in, roosters get out
C G
See that red chicken sitting on an egg, the fox got the rooster and the rooster got dead
C G
Gotta plant a row to get a pot of beans, how ya keep the cabbage mouth off your greens
C G
Just put hot peppers right on the leaves, you better wash em off good before you serve em to me
F
Tell Kentucky how ya turnip greens grow
C
Tell California every thing you know
Tell New York, tell Tennessee
G C
Come to Carolina and ya drink's on me
F
It was whiskey and the whiskey and the whiskey and the whiskey
and the whiskey and the whiskey while the music did play
C
I hope my mama didn’t float away
G
I heard that the Cumberland was out of the bank
F
Tell Kentucky how ya turnip greens grow
C
Tell California every thing you know
Tell New York, tell Tennessee
G C
Come to Carolina and ya drink's on me
F
Tell Kentucky how ya turnip greens grow
C
Tell California every thing you know
Tell New York, tell Tennessee
G F C
Come to Carolina and ya drink's on me
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