You Can't Take The Honky Tonk Out Of The Girl

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Intro - D - A - G - D - A - G 


(verse 1) 
     D                       A 
Yea Connie came back for a second cousin's wedding, 
G 
First time she's been home in a year or two, 
D                      A 
Just in time for the rehearsal dinner, 
G                        A 
That crazy Connie wasn't wearin any shoes, yea 


(chorus) 
D                          A 
She lives in L.A. flies to New York city, 
      G                       D 
That woman's been around the world 
                   D               A 
You can take the girl out of the honky tonk, 
         G <----keep playing--- 
But you can't take the honky tonk,  
      -------------->            D  - A - G 
Take the honky tonk, out of the girl, 


(verse 2) 
D                          A 
That dinner broke up about around eleven-thirty, 
G 
Boy's went out to do what boy's do, 
D                     A 
Connie said hey girls, let's huddle up, 
G                   A 
Round somethin bout a hundred proof, 


(chorus) 
D                          A 
She lives in L.A. flies to New York city, 
      G                       D 
That woman's been around the world 
                   D               A 
You can take the girl out of the honky tonk, 
         G <----keep playing--- 
But you can't take the honky tonk,  
      -------------->            D 
Take the honky tonk, out of the girl, 


(sax lead - D - A - G - D - A - G) 



(verse 3) 
D                           A 
Well at nine a.m. out in front of that church, 
G 
People goin nuts, lookin for the groom, 
D                        A 
Somebody say', by the way where's Connie, 
G                       A 
She's run off with that boy to Cancoon, yea,  


(chorus) 
D                          A 
She lives in L.A. flies to New York city, 
      G                       D 
That woman's been around the world 
                   D               A 
You can take the girl out of the honky tonk, 
         G <----keep playing--- 
But you can't take the honky tonk,  
      -------------->            D  
Take the honky tonk, out of the girl, 

(outro - D - A - G = 5x's)