C                D
Country deejays knows that
        G
I'm an outlaw
        G
They'd never come
                   C
To see me in this dive
       C
Where bikers stare at cowboys
         G       G/F#    Em
Who are laughing at the hippies
          A7
Who are praying they'll get
             D   D7
Outta here alive

     C                 D
The loud mouth in the corner's
         G
Gettin' to me
 G                                C
Talking 'bout my earrings and my hair
    C
I guess he ain't read the signs
      G    G/F#     Em
That say I been to prison
 A7
Someone ought to warn him
          D                 D7
'Fore I knock him off his chair

           C
'Cause my long hair just can't
 D            G
Cover up my red neck
                                 C
I've won every fight, I've ever fought
     C
Hey, I don't need some turkey
         G     G/F#      Em
Telling me that I ain't country
     A7
And sayin' I ain't worth the damned ol'
 D     D7M      D7
Ticket that he bought

              G
'Cause I can sing
          G7          C
All them songs about Texas
D
  And I still do
D7                        G        
All the sad ones that I know
      G
They tell me
   G7              C
I look like Merle Haggard
     A7
And sound a lot like
             D  D7
David Allen Coe

         C               D
And the bar maid in the last town
          G
That we played in
                                   C
Knew the words to every song I'd wrote
                                   G
She said, Jimmy Rabbitt turned her on
   G/F#    Em
To my last album
 A7                               D
Just about the time the jukebox broke

       C                  D
Yeah, Johnny Cash helped me
               G
Get out of prison
                                  C
Long before Rodriguez stole that goat
C
I've been the Rhinestone Cowboy
        G       G/F#    Em
For so long, I can't remember
    A7
And I can do you every song
      D      D7M     D7
Hank Williams ever wrote

           G
And I can sing
          G7          C
All them songs about Texas
D
  And I still do
D7                        G        
All the sad ones that I know
      G
They tell me
   G7              C
I look like Merle Haggard
     A7
And sound a lot like
             D  D7
David Allen Coe

         C               D
But the country deejays, all think
        G
I'm an outlaw
            G
And they'd never come
                   C
To see me in this dive
       C
Where bikers stare at cowboys
         G       G/F#     Em
Who are laughing at the hippies
          A7
Who are praying they'll get
             D
Outta here alive