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[Verse 1]
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Let this be a lesson to you girl: Don't come around where you know you don't belong.
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They're riding on the avenue and probably coming after you and they all look mean and strong.
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Mean and strong like liquor.
Em7       Asus2      Cadd9
Mean and strong like fear.
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Strong like the people from South Alabama and mean like the people from here.
Cadd9        D         Asus2           Em7
Take it from me… We ain't never gonna change.

[Verse 2]
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Daddy used to empty out his shotgun shells and fill 'em full of black-eyed peas.
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He'd aim real low and tear out your ankles or rip right through your knees.
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There ain't much traffic on the highway. 
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There ain't much traffic on the lake.
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The ATF and the ABI got everything they could take.
Cadd9         D       Asus2 Em7
Take it from me… They didn't take it from me.

[Chorus 1]
Em7       D           Asus2
We ain't never gonna change.
Em7       D           Asus2
We ain't doin' nothin' wrong.
Em7       D           Asus2
We ain't never gonna change
Em7       D           Asus2
so shut your mouth and play along.


[Verse 3]
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I thought about going in the army. I thought about going overseas.
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I wouldn't have trouble with a piss test; only problem is my bad left knee. 
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My brother got picked up at parkers  got him a ride in a new Crown Vic.
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They said that he was movin' on a federal level but they couldn't really make it stick.

Cadd9 D Asus2 Em7
Take it from me…

[Chorus 2]
Em7 D Asus2
We ain't never gonna change.
Em7 D Asus2
We ain't doin' nothin' wrong.
Em7 D Asus2
We ain't never gonna change
Em7 D Asus2
so shut your mouth and play along.

[Bridge]
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[Outro]
Em7 D Asus2
You can throw me in the Colbert County jailhouse.
Em7 D Asus2
You can throw me off the Wilson Dam
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but there ain't much difference in the man I wanna be and the man I really am.
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We ain't never gonna change.