Drink Up And Go Home Chords

KeyG CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays468

Drink Up And Go Home by Carl Perkins is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, G7, C, D7 and A7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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G
Text
16
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G 
You sat there a crying  crying in your beer 

G7              C                          D7 
You say you got troubles  my friend listen here 

G                  C                            G 
Don't tell me your troubles  I got enough of my own 

                   C       D7              G 
Be thankful you're living  drink up and go home 


                 C                        G 
I'm fresh out of prison  six years in the can 

                 A7                     D7 
Lost my wife and family  no one to call friend 

G                  C                            G 
Don't tell me your troubles  I got enough of my own 

                   C       D7              G 
Be thankful you're living  drink up and go home 


  
Now there stands a blind man  a man that can't see 

G7              C                           D7 
Yet he's not complaining  why should you or me 

G                  C                            G 
Don't tell me your troubles  I got enough of my own 

                   C       D7              G 
Be thankful you're living  drink up and go home 


                 C                        G 
I'm fresh out of prison  six years in the can 

                 A7                     D7 
Lost my wife and family  no one to call friend 

G                  C                            G 
Don't tell me your troubles  I got enough of my own 

                   C       D7              G 
Be thankful you're living  drink up and go home 


                 C                        G 
I'm fresh out of prison  six years in the can 

                 A7                     D7 
Lost my wife and family  no one to call friend 

G                  C                            G 
Don't tell me your troubles  I got enough of my own 

                   C       D7              G 
Be thankful you're living  drink up and go home 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

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