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[Verse]

        D
He was standing in the rubble
       G                                D
Of an old farmhouse outside of Birmingham

When some on-the-scene reporter
         G                           A
Stuck a camera in the face of that old man
      D
He said, tell the folks, please mister
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What are you gonna do
 G
Now that this twister has taken
 Em
All that's dear to you
     Bm               A
The old man just smiled and said
                     G
Boy, let me tell you something
A           D      A
This ain't nothin'

[Chorus]
     G                        Asus4              A
He said, I lost my daddy when I was eight years old
      D            D/F#            Em            D/F#
That cave-in at the Kincaid Mine left a big old hole
      G                           Asus4               A
And I lost my baby brother, my best friend, and my left hand
   D         D/F#       Em                    D/F#
In A no-win situation in a place called Vietnam
          Bm              F#m
And last year I watched my lovin' wife
     G                 D/F#
Of fifty years, waste  away and die
       Em                     D/F#                   G Asus4   A
And I held her hand as her heart of gold stopped  pumpin'
                D
So, this ain't nothin'

[Verse 2]
         D
He said, I learned at an early age
              G                                     D
There's things that matter and there's things that don't

So if you're waiting here for me to cry, I hate
               G                A
To disappoint you boy, but I won't
         D
Then he reached down in the rubble
     D7/F#
And picked up a photograph
   G
Wiped the dirt off of it
   Em
With the hand that he still had
    Bm          A
He put it to his lips
                   G
Said, man she was somethin'
A           D           A
But, this ain't nothin'

[Chorus]
    G                       Asus4                  A
He said, I lost my daddy when I was eight years old
     D              D/F#        Em               D/F#
That cave-in at the Kincaid Mine left a big old hole
     G                               Asus4                    A
And I lost my baby brother, my best friend, and my left hand
      D         D/F#         Em             D/F#
In A no-win situation in a place called Vietnam
         Bm                   F#m
And last year I watched my lovin' wife
    G                      D/F#
Of fifty years, waste away and die
        Em                  D/F#                         G          Asus4   A
And I held her hand as her heart of gold stopped pumpin'
                D
So, this ain't nothin'

[Bridge]
         G                                   D
He said this ain't nothin' that time won't erase
     G                                     A
And this ain't nothin' money can't replace

[Entro]
          Bm                          F#m
He said, you sit and watch your lovin' wife
    G                          D/F#
Of fifty years, fightin' for her life
          Em                           D/F#             G
Then you hold her hand 'til that heart of gold stops pumpin'
                 Asus4
Yeah, boy that's somethin'
                D
So, this ain't (D) nothin'