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[Verse 1]
Em            D
Hard workin', hard hands
C                               D
Sweatin' like the devil with my farmer's tan
Em                  D
My grandfather said Chop that wood
      C                          D
Don't cuss at your mama, boy you got to be good
Em           D
Life goes by fast take it slow
C                                 D
One day you're young and the next day you're old
           Em                      D
He used to tell me all this at our fishin' hole
          C                            D
I used to carry all his tackle and his fishin' pole


[Chorus]
               G               C
I can tell you stories my granddaddy told me
G                         D
When I was just a boy I'd sit on his knee
        G          C
He said Son let me tell you about
    D                C           G
The south and how it goes around here
               G               C
I can tell you stories my granddaddy told me
G                         D
When I was just a boy I'd sit on his knee
        G          C
He said Son let me tell you about
    D                C           G
The south and how it goes around here


[Verse]
Em                            D
My daddy wasn't there but the old man was
   C                         D
He taught me how to fish, he taught me to hunt
    Em                     D
And if I got bored he said whittle some wood
      C                        D
Or go take that ol' dog go get lost in the woods
Em                           D
I stay up all night and just sit on the porch
           C                          D
He used to tell me stories about when he was a boy
Em                                D
He grew up down the hollar at the end of Lick Fork
     C                    D
In a little old cabin and they were so poor
Em                        D
He started workin' at the age of 10
   C                          D
He left school and never went back again
              Em                    D
I'll tell ya, old boy could swing a hammer and an axe
         C                              D
And when times get tough, you'd get the shirt off his back


[Chorus]
               G               C
I can tell you stories my granddaddy told me
     G                    D
When I was just a boy I'd sit on his knee
        G          C
He said Son let me tell you about
    D                C           G
The south and how it goes around here
               G               C
I can tell you stories my granddaddy told me
     G                    D
When I was just a boy I'd sit on his knee
        G          C
He said Son let me tell you about
    D                C           G
The south and how it goes around here


[Verse]
Em             D
I'm older, and he's gone now
C                  D
But I never forgot what we talked about
Em                     D
My grandfather told me stand up proud
          C                             D
Don't you ever start a fight, but don't ever back down
    Em        D
No, no, and I miss him so
   C                     D
It tears up my heart, it rips my soul
    Em                              D
Now looking down the ridge where we used to go
      C                          D
I can still hear his voice and I know he knows


[Chorus]
               G               C
I can tell you stories my granddaddy told me
     G                    D
When I was just a boy I'd sit on his knee
        G          C
He said Son let me tell you about
    D                C           G
The south and how it goes around here
               G               C
I can tell you stories my granddaddy told me
     G                    D
When I was just a boy I'd sit on his knee
        G          C
He said Son let me tell you about
    D                C           G
The south and how it goes around here