i couldn’t find this tab anywhere and if you own the bonus songs on this album then you
know that this is one of the best ones on there . enjoy . – ac

smoke rise
by clay cook and zac brown
album
capo 2nd fret

D
she was something in her formative years

G
she’d hide her accent it would reappear

D A
when she would brag on what Daddy bought last night

D
all the pretty girls were in that crowd

G
to tease a hand full of poor kids out loud

D A D
and even then i knew it wasn’t right

– chorus –

G A D G
smoke rise , you were never kind

G A D
good news i left you all behind

G A D A G
some who hope that it would last

A D
smoke rise i’m glad you’re in my past

D
most of the kids were better than me
G
or at least they thought so and it was plain to see
D A
the children were cruel and i didn’t have a fighting chance
D
i wasn’t a jock , i wasn’t a brain
G
we weren’t well off and mama couldn’t explain
D A D
why no one would take a poor boy to the dance

– chorus 2x –

D
spoiled rich kids find it hard to embrace
G
when they bus black kids from all over the place
D A
the county tried to prove their schools were all the same
D
ol’ jim crow tried to integrate
G
but in the south it’s hard to relate
D A D
when grandpa used the “n” word with no shame

– chorus 2x –