Tone [C]
Capo: 1
Intro
[Am] [G] [C] [G] [F] [Am] [G] [C] [Em] [F]
Verse
[Am]Paint your truck tread [F]with some red dust
[G]While you kick up the [C]long way home
[Am]Share some bootleg [F]with your best buds
[G]Wear a bit of that [C]bonfire smoke
If a [Am]back porch swing and [F]twang in your words
And [G]settin' that hook was a [C]Good Book verse
I'd be [Am]doin' [F]alright
I'd know where I's [G]goin'
when I get to the other side [C]'cause
Chorus
[F]Backroads and cold [G]beer
Are my [Am]down-home [C]prayer
Can't [F]get no [G]closer
To the [Am]Man upstairs
Than [C]way out there, where the [F]river runs
Lord [G]knows I'd be one [Am]hell of [G]a [C] [F]disciple
If bein' [G]country was in the Bible
[Am]Hallelujah, [C]amen
Heaven [F]blessed this life I live
[Am]Hallelujah, [C]amen, [F]amen
Verse
[Am] If "John Deere [F]Green" was [G]3:16
And old [C]barstools were back pew [Am]seats
These Friday [F]nights would all
just [G]seem like Sunday [C]mornin'
If them [Am]words in red were a [F]little more read
This [G]sinner'd be a saint [C]instead
Chorus
'Cause [F]backroads and cold [G]beer
Are my [Am]down-home [C]prayer
Can't [F]get no [G]closer
To the [Am]Man upstairs
Than [C]way out there, where the [F]river runs
Lord [G]knows I'd be one [Am]hell of [G]a [C] [F]disciple
If bein' [G]country was in the Bible
[Am]Hallelujah, [C]amen
Heaven [F]blessed this life I live
[Am]Hallelujah, [C]amen, [F]amen
Instrumental/Solo
[Am] [C] [F] [F]
[Am] [G] [C] [F] [F] [C]
Chorus
[F]Backroads and cold [G]beer
Are my [Am]down-home [C]prayer
Can't [F]get no [G]closeeer
To God's [Am]grace I [G]swear
Than [C]way out there, where the [F]river runs
Lord [G]knows I'd be one [Am]hell of [G]a [C] [F]disciple
If bein' [G]country was in the Bible
[Am]Hallelujah, [C]amen
Heaven [F]blessed this life I live
[Am]Hallelujah, [C]amen, [F]amen