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"Scraping Dixie" - John Gorka from "Between Five and Seven" 1996

Capo on 3rd fret

   x22020      302210     x33011
C   C/B    Am   Am/G   F  Csus4   F

             C      C/B      Am   Am/G   F       Csus4  F
I heard that he was scraping Dixie,      looking for a  job

C       C/B      Am      Am/G    F  Csus4  F
Looking for some work to get him by

         C        C/B     Am   Am/G      F      Csus4  F
Steering clear of all the jails,  he was skinny as a rail

        C          C/B    Am        Am/G   F  Csus4  F
And his face would hardly move from day to day

    C          C/B    Am        Am/G   F  Csus4  F
His face would hardly move from day to day


CHORUS:
          C        C/B      Am   Am/G      F             Csus4  F
Don't you set your mouth on me,  don't you set your mouth on me

          C        C/B            Am    Am/G      F   Csus4  F
Don't you set your mouth and jump salty as the    sea

     C          C/B     Am   Am/G      F       Csus4  F
Even though she was the one,      even so I'll overcome

          C        C/B      Am     Am/G      F      Csus4  F
Don't you set your mouth on me like I      belonged

          C        C/B      Am     Am/G      F      Csus4  F
Don't you set your mouth on me like I      belonged


He learned to cook short order, was a pour man in a bar
And a bubble dancer till his face got steamed
And I know that he was bugged dishing out them slops and slugs
He said that grease got all up in his dreams
He said that grease got all up in his dreams

He said he'd be scraping Dixie, maybe Carolina way
Looking for some cash to pass him through
Well what you gonna do, we all have to line the flue
But I'll fight until they put that tree suit on
I'll be fighting til they put that tree suit on

Bridge:
     Am  G        C               Am   G    Am
The VFW  from somewhere, with the 1000 yard stare

    F                        G
The VA kept him hanging on a line

        C   C/B    Am     Am/G            F       Csus4     F
His disability was pending, I'd get these scribes that he was sending

        C        C/B        Am      Am/G        F  Csus4  F
He'd be scraping by til the weather warmed this way

         C     C/B     Am      Am/G        F  Csus4  F
Scraping Dixie til the weather warmed this way


repeat chorus