The Bottom Line
By Jon Christopher Davis
Tabbed By Larry Mofle
rmofle at satx.rr.com
4/19/2006

This is one of the best songs written about the state of todays country music!
Jon Christopher Davis has said the exact way I feel about what Nashville, the
business, has done to the music!



Capo 1


D                                  A
Beautiful girl in ripped up jeans, head full of air and karaoke dreams
Bm                                    G 
Bartender says she looks so good, she oughta be in Hillbilly Hollywood
         D                                           A
Well the fat cat told her she could be a star, not because shes good, because she fits the part
    Bm                                        G
Id like to find the jerk that said sex sells, take his job away and throw his ass in jail


Chorus 1:
A                                     G
Hey man, you went too far, won't you bring back the radio star
D                                             A
You ran a good thing into the ground when you started selling sight over sound
        G                                      D                                   Bm
And the thing that saddens me the most are the things that once mattered are now a ghost
              A                                         G                                        Bm     D
Why dont you take a look at what youre leaving behind 'stead of always thinking about the bottom line."   


Well I tried to listen but all I see are cartoon characters on TV
They cant hear the difference today between saying something and having something to say
Give me Waylon, Dylan, Haggard, and Jones, give me just a little more meat on the bones
Johnny Cash come and take our hand and lead us back over to the promised land


Chorus   



Bridge:
      Bm
Its lights, camera, action
        F#m
Its as strange as Michael Jackson
            G
They spend a million dollars on a new CD
          D                            G
While the kids at home download it for free



Chorus


           Bm               D 
The bottom line, the bottom line
              Bm               D
Oh the bottom line, the bottom line
       Bm          D 
Ooooo-ooooh, ooooh-ooooh
      Bm           D
Ooooo-ooooh, ooooh-ooooh