In the last part of any chorus there's a chromatic line, watch out for that part, play only the power chords the bass note and the 3rd.
You can play the lead guitar part in the key of C# minor pentatonic.
I still put the root chord in the ending to resolve to the melody.
[Intro]
C#m
...........
[Verse 1]
C#m
There's an old route two-lane
Taking out past where the radio just can't
C#m
Pass a riverbed with a rope swing
And a mailbox painted all John Deere green
[Pre-Chorus]
F#
The end of a bunch of gravel driveway
Out here doing our own thing
[Chorus]
C#m
Out in the middle where the hard work meets hard living
C#m
Out in the middle where we're grown 'til we're gone, God willing
F#
Just some good old boys and good old girls
F#
Hunting red dirt dreams in a concrete world
G# F# C#m C B Bb A G# C#m
Getting by on just a little, out......... in the middle
[Interlude]
C#m
................
[Verse 2]
C#m
Come Friday, we come undone
C#m
Stay, have a little like a highlight neon
C#m
Barely hanging on like shelving a pole bar
C#m
You can hear Hank clear 'cross the next farm
[Pre-Chorus]
F#
City folks say we're crazy
But they ain't never been way
[Chorus]
C#m
Out in the middle where the hard work meets hard living
C#m
Out in the middle where we're grown 'til we're gone, God willing
F#
Just some good old boys and good old girls
F#
Hunting red dirt dreams in a concrete world
G# F#
Getting by on just a little,
[Bridge]
C#m C B Bb A G# C#m G#
........Out in the middle of nowhere, that's where I wanna be
A
And the old oak shade by the family graves
G#
With the Southern ground all day
[Instrumental]
C#m
..........
[Chorus]
C#m
Out in the middle where the hard work meets hard living
C#m
Out in the middle where we're grown 'til we're gone, God willing
F#
Just some good old boys and good old girls
F#
Hunting red dirt dreams in a concrete world
G# F# C#m C B Bb A G# G F# F C#m
Getting by on just a little, out....................in the middle....