Dont Get Above Your Raisin Chords
by Ricky Skaggs
Dont Get Above Your Raisin by Ricky Skaggs is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, C7 and D7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Ricky Skaggs Guitar (Acoustic & electric), Guitar, Mandolin,
Fiddle
Jerry Douglas Dobro
Ray Flacke Guitar (Electric)
Sonny Curtis Guitar (Acoustic)
Buck White Piano
Lea Jane Berinati Vocals
Bruce Bouton steel guitar
Dennis Burnside Piano, fender rhodes
Bobby Hicks Fiddle
Jerry Kroon drums
Joe Osborne Bass
Cheryl Warren Vocals
Sharon White Vocals
G
Now I got a gal that's sweet to me
She just ain't what she used to be
C7
She's a little high headed
G
Thats plain to see
D7
Don't get above your raising
G
Stay down to earth with me
G
Now looky here gal don't you high hat me
I ain't forgot what you used to be
C7
When you didn't have nothing
G
That was plain to see
D7
Don't get above your raising
G
Stay down to earth with me
SOLO
G
Now you need not hold your head so high
Every time you pass me by
C7
For it don't mean nothing
G
To me you see
D7
Don't get above your raising
G
Stay down to earth with me
G
Now looky here gal you better be yourself
And leave that other stuff on the shelf
C7
You're country baby
G
That's plain to see
D7
Don't get above your raising
G
Stay down to earth with me
SOLO
G
Now I got a gal that's sweet to me
She just ain't what she used to be
C7
Just a little high headed
G
Thats plain to see
D7
Don't get above your raising
G
Stay down to earth with me
From Ricky Skaggs "Waitin For The Sun To Shine"
Epic Records 1981
Acuff Rose Publishing