Confidence Man

Band: Woodbox Gang (www.woodboxgang.com)

Album: Wormwood

A great band from southern Illinois playing Trashcan Americana

Verse 1

G Am D G

Got a pretty smile, I can smile too. Smile so big my head’s in two.

Am D G Am

You wanna be friends, you can be mine. Keep you happy in the sunshine.

D G Am D

Take my hand, it’s warm you can tell. Feel my heart, it’s hotter than hell

G Am D G

I’ve been there and I can take you too, I can make all your bad dreams come true.

(Slide Licks in G)

D Em C (5 times) end on D

VERSE 2

I like small towns and the people there. Easier money than welfare.

What does it take to get a handout? A sucker to trust you without a doubt.

But they need me and I need them, we’re all red-blooded working men.

Good or bad, where do I stand? Between the devil and a dollar is a confidence man.

CHORUS

D Em C D

It’s a confidence game, I’m a confidence man. Sure as I win, sure as I stand.

Em C D Em

Tell you what I am, honest I ain’t. Stab you in the back, smiling like a saint.

C D Em C

Confidence man in a confidence game, I’ll leave you with nothing but your shame.

D Em C D

Your mama warned about a confidence game, she’s been taken in just the same – by a

D Em C D

confidence man.

VERSE 3

When the market dies like it always does everybody’s pockets are lighter than they was.

Evrybody’s mad everybody’s pissed They can’t believe that they were taken by a scam like this

Still they can’t even understand, how they got swindled by an ordinary man

They pay the price, that’s why I came, to make ‘em all losers in a confidence game.

CHORUS

SLIDE LICKS IN G

D Em C (5 Times) end on D

The guitar solo is done on a dobro/resonator guitar, tuned to open G.