Country Boy Like Me

from High Water by Robert Larrabee

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Country Boy Like Me, is a song about a country boy who spends the summer with a city girl who is on spring vacation she tells him she'll be back, but that never happens. Every spring he goes the small town bus depot and watches all the college kids getting off the bus but the girl is never one of them. The song writing here is beautiful "I seek your face in every crowd, at the bus stop every spring, drown my sorrows in cheap whiskey get drunk enough that I can't see. The picture in my head of you, painted on the ceiling of my mind, that only I can ever see, of a girl like you with a country boy like me". One of the best Larrabee written tunes yet.

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Country Boy Like Me Robert Larrabee
G You let me slip C through your fingers
D just another knot on G your string
G you threw out the C only future
D this poor cowboy G had ever seen

G all that summer C we shared so much
D you sobbed you'd C be back G next spring
G but I guess you C just couldn't see
D enough to hold C onto Am
C a country boy G like me
Two bar CDG
Chorus:
D I remember C down by the lake
D laying back we'd G count every star
C saw those blue eyes / Am and I knew
D that you had this C country boys G heart
D and it all seemed C pretty clear to me
D a city girl C like you Am could be
C with a country G boy like Me
4Bar Guitar Solo
G I seek your face C in every crowd
D at the bus stop G every spring
G drown my sorrows C in cheap whiskey
D get drunk enough G that I can't see

G the picture in C my head of you
D painted on the C ceiling G of my mind
G that only I C can ever see
D of a girl like C you Am with / C a country boy G like me
2 bar Chorus: 2Bar

inal tag: D I guess it just C won't every be
D a city girl C like you Am With
C a country boy G like me

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from High Water, released March 19, 2018

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Robert Larrabee Medicine Hat, Alberta

Robert larrabee writes moving stories and sings them straight from the heart. New music influenced by the last 50 years of Rock & Roll, Traditional Country, and pop. An old soul in a new age, unabashedly unafraid to share music that isn't contrived for the brain washed masses. ... more

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