Cleaning This Gun Chords

KeyD CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays465

Cleaning This Gun by Rodney Atkins is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, C, G, A, Bm and Em. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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D
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  			Intro: D 

D 
The declaration of independence 
              C                  G                        D        
Think I can tell you that first sentence, But then I'm lost 
D 
I can't begin to count the theories 
       C              G             D 
I had pounded in my head that I forgot 
            A                              G 
I don't remember all that Spanish Or the Gettysburg address 
              A                            G 
But there is one speech from high school, I'll never forgot 


D                A               G                 A 
Come on in boy, sit on down and tell me 'bout yourself 
        D                    A                 G                     
So you like my daughter, do you now, yeah we think she's  
            A 
something else 
            Bm 
She's her daddy's girl and her mama's world 
       G                       D                       Em 
She deserves respect, that's what she'll get, ain't it son 
                         A 
Now y'all run along and have some fun 
      G                                  D          A 
I'll see you when you get back, Bet I'll be up all night 
                 D 
Still cleaning this gun 

D                                          
Well now that I'm a father 
                C                G                D 
I'm scared to death one day my daughter's gonna find,  
                            
That teenage boy I used to be 
     C                   G                D 
Who seems to have just one thing on his mind 
               A                             G 
She's growing up so fast it won't be long before  
      A 
I'll have to put the fear of god 
       G 
Into some kid at the door 

Repeat Chorus 

 A                                         G 
It's all for show, ain't nobody gonna get hurt 
              Bm          A                      G 
It's just a daddy thing, hey believe me man, it works 

Repeat Chorus 
  

NOW YA’LL BUCKLE UP AND HAVE HOME ABOUT 10 AH 9:30 

DRIVE SAFE!!!!!!! 

Walk the BM out into G (if barring BM lift bar finger 
striking 5th string then to G) 
Close as I could get.  Mike Oliver 


    	

Chord diagrams

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