Tablature backin to birmingham - Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs

          



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  Date: 8/12/97; 1:01:46 AM

  From: ah827@rgfn.epcc.Edu (Gene L. Graham)

  Subject: BACKIN' TO BIRMINGHAM

  

  

  BACKIN' TO BIRMINGHAM

  Recorded by Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs

  Words and music by Lester Flatt and Burkett Graves

   

  [C] Read an ad in [G7] Chicago's Sunday [C] paper 

  Help wanted semi [G7] driver needed [C] bad

  I [F] walked in I said I'd like to see the [C] foreman 

  I [D7] told him all the experience that I [G7] had 

  He said [C] son you're [G7] just the man I [C] needed 

  Handed me the [G7] keys and shook my [C] hand 

  He [F] pointed to the truck and said I'll [C] see you 

  [G7] Take that load of steel to Birmin'-[C] ham.

  

  CHORUS

  Well I [F] finally got inside and got it started 

  Put it into gear and started [C] backin' [F] up 

  Tried every way to get it goin' forward

  Oh, but [D7] I ain't never drove a big old [G7] truck 

  Well it [C] wasn't easy [G7] backin' through the [C] traffic 

  And I'll bet I'm the [G7] first truck drivin' [C] man 

  That [F] ever left Chicago in a [C] semi 

  And [G7] backed it all the way to Birgin'-[C] ham.

  

  Well, the police pulled me over down in Nashville

  What do you think you're doin', I just smiled 

  I said I just got tired of goin' forward 

  And I thought I'd drive it backwards for a while 

  I backed it in a truck stop and said fill it

  And check the oil, it probably needs a can 

  Oh, he said tell me which way are you backin' 

  I said I'm backin' south to Birmin'ham. 

  

  CHORUS

                                 


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 Backin to birmingham, de Lester flatt and earl scruggs 

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