{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1074592,"song":"The Ballad Of Eugene Pratt","artist":"Mason Proffit","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11237795-the-ballad-of-eugene-pratt-chords-by-mason-proffit/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1074592?type=chord","rating":0,"votes":0,"content":"[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                                  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWhen I was just a young boy, on the okalhoma plains[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                                         [ch]C[/ch]            \r\nI tried to keep my shoes shined, tried to keep a clean name[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]        [ch]F[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWay over town, lived a boy named Eugene Pratt[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Em[/ch]                    [ch]D[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd we weren’t allowed to talk to him, say hi and none of that no no[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                                    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI went off to school, Eugene sat right in front of my desk[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                                   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe kids they made fun of him, cause Gene was such a mess Lord[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]F[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut oh, he worked hard, and he took home a mess of good grades[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                                     [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd when it came time for him to go to big school, Eugene went far away[/tab]\r\n[tab]                 [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]Em[/ch]   [ch]D[/ch]                     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nCause that’s the way it was, and that’s the way it is[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]Em[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd that’s the way it was, and that’s the way it is[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                                  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI went off to college, got myself a job in the campus store[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                                       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut in the meantime, Gene spent his time writin’ bout the world and war[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]               [ch]F[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI didn’t understand, all the things he was talkin about[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Em[/ch]                           [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nSo my friends and me from that old fraternity, got drunk and blocked it all out (Yes we did)[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                                 [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd then we graduated, lost our deference, our excuse.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                                      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd the man said, come here boys, gonna put your education to a good use[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]F[/ch]                 [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWent down to the draft board, saw Eugene lookin’ alive and well[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                                [ch]D[/ch]                    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut when it came time to put his name on the line, he told them boys to go to hell (Yes he did)[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                                           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nEugene was by far the smartest, the most concerned with humanity[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                                        [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut it was him they took, far away, and stuck in a penitentiary lordy[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]F[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI can’t help but wonder, if we’d all stand up like him[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                          [ch]D[/ch]                                   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThen there’d be no one to carry those damn guns for something nobody believes in[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]                    [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]Em[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut that ain’t the way it was, that ain’t the way it is[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]Em[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]                     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThat ain’t the way it was, that ain’t the way it is[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]Em[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]                     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThat ain’t the way it was, that ain’t the way it is[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]Em[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]                     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThat ain’t the way it was, that ain’t the way it is[/tab]","plain_text":"","chords":["Em","C","G","F","D"],"chord_diagrams":{"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}