Standard (EADGBE)

Born in the back of a shack down in Tuscaloosa, Alabama

They tried to make him bad he looked up

 and said 'I'm no loser'

Chorus

 'Cause for nickels and dimes he could play his guitar he could rhyme

 He could do it every time, in Denver, or wherever

He left his happy home, his mamma she sat lowing, she was crying

You know he went out on the road,

that's the only life that he knew worked fine

Chorus

You know he would've took a wife if he had any kind of life

he could give to her

Chorus +:

He could do it every time, either in Denver, or forever