Biography:
BRAD COTTER: COMIN’ BACK STRONG
Brad Cotter has been on an amazing journey from childhood gospel stardom to his 2004 win of the popular USA Network reality show, “Nashville Star” twenty-two years later. Growing up in Opelika Alabama, his youth was a roller coaster ride of love and guilt, admiration and abuse, faith and doubt, and living with the joys and dysfunction of the small town deep south.
Through the ins and outs of the club scene, the Nashville songwriting and studio singer scene
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[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
D A
A 1986 Harley blowing smoke and sucking oil
Em G
My daddy said, 'Buy it and you're crazy boy'
A D
You can't tell me nothin'
[Verse 2]
D
It took two months to fix it up
A
And one day to lay her down
Em G
I got a little hitch in my get-a-long now
A D
You can't tell me nothin'
[Chorus]
A Bm Bm/A G
Talk is cheap and free advice
D A
Is worth the price you pay
A Bm Bm/A G A
I had to find out for myself the hard way
D
You can't tell me nothin'
[Verse 3]
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Hometown homecoming sweetheart
A
Nobody thought I had a prayer
Em G
Her mama said, 'Boy, don't you come around here'
A D
You can't tell me nothin'
[Verse 4]
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They say be careful what you wish for
A
I want to be her man
Em G
Two babies and a trailer later here I am
A D
You can't tell me nothin'
[Chorus]
A Bm Bm/A G
Talk is cheap and free advice
D A
Is worth the price you pay
A Bm Bm/A G A
I had to find out for myself the hard way
D
You can't tell me nothin'
[Verse 5]
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They say drinking will kill you
A
The same thing for rolling smokes
Em Dsus2 G
But that's two of the three things I like most
A D
You can't tell me nothin'
D
I know what the good book preaches
A
But I know how I am
Em Dsus2 G A
I sure hope somebody up there understands
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You can't tell me nothin'
D
You can't tell me nothin'
[Outro]
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[Intro]
D
[Verse 1]
D A
A 1986 Harley blowing smoke and sucking oil
Em G
My daddy said, 'Buy it and you're crazy boy'
A D
You can't tell me nothin'
[Verse 2]
D
It took two months to fix it up
A
And one day to lay her down
Em G
I got a little hitch in my get-a-long now
A D
You can't tell me nothin'
[Chorus]
A Bm Bm/A G
Talk is cheap and free advice
D A
Is worth the price you pay
A Bm Bm/A G A
I had to find out for myself the hard way
D
You can't tell me nothin'
[Verse 3]
D
Hometown homecoming sweetheart
A
Nobody thought I had a prayer
Em G
Her mama said, 'Boy, don't you come around here'
A D
You can't tell me nothin'
[Verse 4]
D
They say be careful what you wish for
A
I want to be her man
Em G
Two babies and a trailer later here I am
A D
You can't tell me nothin'
[Chorus]
A Bm Bm/A G
Talk is cheap and free advice
D A
Is worth the price you pay
A Bm Bm/A G A
I had to find out for myself the hard way
D
You can't tell me nothin'
[Verse 5]
D
They say drinking will kill you
A
The same thing for rolling smokes
Em Dsus2 G
But that's two of the three things I like most
A D
You can't tell me nothin'
D
I know what the good book preaches
A
But I know how I am
Em Dsus2 G A
I sure hope somebody up there understands
D
You can't tell me nothin'
D
You can't tell me nothin'
[Outro]
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