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Job Desription

Alan Jackson

CountryMedium for beginners4 chords

How to play it

Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.

D××
E
A×
F#mDiagram coming soon

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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              D E A E 
 
A 
Well I know sometimes you find it hard 
 
   D                              A 
To understand just what we do out here 
 
F#m 
Well that bus rolls up at home 
                 E 
And I just disappear 
  
D 
And I sure don't like to leave you 
 
                                       A 
Couldn't stand for you to think that I don't care 
 
D 
So I wrote this job description 
  
        E                               A 
Just to tell you what I do when I'm not there 
 
        D 
I sleep eighty miles an hour 
  
                                    A 
To the whining of a diesel down the interstate 
 
          D 
Dreamin' 'bout my little girls 
 
                                    E 
The easy chair that sits beside the fireplace 
 
A 
Then we shut her down in another town 
 
D                             A          A-E  F#m 
Shower up and do just what we came to do 
 
D 
Sing for the people 
 
          E                                A    E 
Count the money and the miles back home to you 
 
BRIDGE 
A  D   A  F#m  E  D  A  F#m  D  E  A 
 
A 
Well each night I take the stage  
 
       D                                 A 
With a six piece band and a guitar in my hand 
 
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Singin' songs about my life 
  
                           E 
All the good times and the bad 
 
D 
Then we say goodbye and we load it up 
 
                                A 
And head somewhere I've already been 
 
D                                  E 
Then I lay down in that double bed alone 
  
                     A 
And I thank the Lord again 
 
REPEAT Chorus 
 
TAG 
     D 
Well I just sing for the people 
 
          E                                A 
Count the money and the miles back home to you 
          
 

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D · E · A · F#m

Practice tip

Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.