Get A Little Dirt On Your Hands Chords

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Get A Little Dirt On Your Hands by Bill Anderson is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, F, G7 and Am. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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C
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C                          F                       C 
When I was a little boy my daddy used to say to me son 

                              F                     C 
We got a lotta big land and a lotta hard work to be done 

F                   C 
Go get your marbles put 'em in the house 

G7                            C 
Tear down your castles in the sand 

F                           C 
Come with your pappy to the cotton patch 

F                             Am 
And get a little dirt on your hands 


C                         Am 
Get a little dirt on your hands boy 

C                         Am 
Get a little dirt on your hands 

C                               F       C 
If you're gonna grow up to be a big big man 

    F                               C 
You gotta get a little dirt on your hands 

    F                               C 
You gotta get a little dirt on your hands 


                              F                          C 
Well I got to be twenty and I thought I was a pretty big wheel 

                                    F                    C 
Left the country for the city met a slicker with a shady deal 

F                          C 
He said hold up the tavern take all the money 

G7                 C 
Run as fast as you can 

F                                 C 
If you're gonna get along in this big bad world 

F                                   Am 
You gotta get a little dirt on your hands 


C                         Am 
Get a little dirt on your hands boy 

C                         Am 
Get a little dirt on your hands 

C                               F       C 
If you're gonna grow up to be a big big man 

    F                               C 
You gotta get a little dirt on your hands 

    F                               C 
You gotta get a little dirt on your hands 


                                      F                      C 
Well it's four in the morning and the warden is a calling my name 

                                     F                          C 
Says he's teaching me a lesson gonna send me out to work in the rain 

F                            C 
Dig that ditch boy chop that corn 

G7                    C 
I gotta make you understand 

F                            C 
Only way to straighten out a guy like you 

F                               Am 
Is to get a little dirt on your hands 


C                         Am 
Get a little dirt on your hands boy 

C                         Am 
Get a little dirt on your hands 

C                               F       C 
If you're gonna grow up to be a big big man 

    F                               C 
You gotta get a little dirt on your hands 

    F                               C 
You gotta get a little dirt on your hands 
    	

Chord diagrams

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100 BPM Andante