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[Verse]
    D
Old Ronnie's totin' shingles up a ladder for Steve
                           A           D
Steve fixed Ronnie's transmission last week
       D
Friday night there'll be spaghetti, 5 dollars a plate
                             A             D
To help get Curtis Wright's doctor's bills paid
           C                                           G
For every able bodied man there's a fire department volunteer
    A                      D
The rats don't race around here

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       D
We got 30 day credit at the hardware store
                                     A      D
You don't need a Mastercard to buy a two by four
D
Saturday's for fishin', 'n Sunday's for church
                              A       D
Here it ain't a career it's 5 days of work
         C                                    G
The trashman's a trashman not a sanitation engineer
    A                      D
The rats don't race around here

[Chorus]
               G                       A
There ain't no need to ride a bus into work each day
G                       A        D
Nobody's fightin' for a parkin' place
    C                                           G
You might get passed on the road by an old John Deere
    A                      D
The rats don't race around here

[Chorus]
               G                       A
There ain't no need to ride a bus into work each day
G                       A       D
Nobody's fightin' for a parkin' place
     C                                          G
You might get passed on the road by an old John Deere
    C                                          G
Somebody wins a trophy at the drag strip every year
        A                      D
But the rats don't race around here

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Ya'll the rats don't race around here

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