D                                  Cadd9
I was born in a small town, in the hills of Tennessee
G                Cadd9                                    D
Kentucky raised, just a country boy, that’s all I’ll ever be
D                           Cadd9
Daddy ran a still house, to keep us kids alive
G           Cadd9                         D
Just doin’ what he had to do, after mama died

[Pre Chorus]
Cadd9                    D
Same people that called him no good
                  Cadd9                   D
Meet him in the backwoods, for a little taste
G                                    D
He’d say I may take your money, but don’t put yourself above me
Cadd9                           A
Don’t cut me down, as you walk away

[Chorus]
D                        Cadd9
Cause you don’t know me, you don’t know who I am
           G                            D
You don’t know the hell that I’ve been through
          D                  Cadd9
So don’t judge me, till you stand where I stand
   G                       Cadd9          A
Cause I don’t need you or anyone else to prove
Cadd9           B      A          F        D
Cause the blood in these veins is tried and true

[Verse]
D                         Cadd9
I left home at 16, with a guitar on my back
                             Cadd9
With everything that I could call my own,
                       D
I carried in a paper sack
D                              Cadd9
Spent years of having nothing, sleeping in my car
G                                   Cadd9
I’d drive all day just to play all night
Cadd9                  D
In the honky tonks and bars

[Pre Chorus]
 Cadd9                      D
Same people that called me crazy,
      Cadd9                     D
Just to damn lazy, to amount to anything
G                                                            D
Are the first ones at the stage, just to beg me for a little taste
Cadd9                                       A
They say they knew me when, nobody knew my name

[Chorus]
D                        Cadd9
Cause you don’t know me, you don’t know who I am
           G                            D
You don’t know the hell that I’ve been through
          D                  Cadd9
So don’t judge me, till you stand where I stand
   G                       Cadd9          A
Cause I don’t need you or anyone else to prove
Cadd9           B      A          F        D
Cause the blood in these veins is tried and true
Cadd9           B      A          F        D
Cause the blood in these veins is tried and true