Capo 4th fret

Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

 He was standing in the rubble

 Of an old farmhouse outside of Birming ham

When some on-the-scene reporter

 Stuck a camera in the face of that old man

 He said, tell the folks, please mister

 What (/) are you gonna do

  Now that this twister has taken

  All that's dear to you

 The old man just smiled and said

 Boy, let me tell you something

  This ain't nothin'

  He said, I lost my daddy when I was eight years old

  That cave-in at the (/) Kincaid Mine left a big old (/) hole

  And I lost my baby brother, my best friend, and my left hand

  In no-win situ ation in a place called Viet nam

  And last year I watched my lovin' wife

  Of fifty years, waste (/) away and die

  And I held her hand as her heart of gold stopped pumpin'

  So, this ain't nothin'

He said, I learned at an early age

There's things that matter and there's things that don't

So if you're waiting here for me to cry, I hate

To disappoint you boy, but I won't

Then he reached down in the rubble

And picked up a photograph

Wiped the dirt off of it

With the hand that he still had

He put it to his lips

Said, man she was somethin'

But, this ain't nothin'

He said, I lost my daddy when I was eight years old

That cave-in at the Kincaid Mine left a big old hole

And I lost my baby brother, my best friend, and my left hand

In a no win situation in a place called Vietnam

And last year I watched my lovin' wife

Of fifty years, waste away and die

We were holding handa, as her heart of gold stopped pumpin'

So, this ain't nothin'

 He said this ain't nothin' that time won't er ase

 And this ain't nothin' money can't rep lace

 He said, Bm you sit and watch your lovin' wife

 Of fifty years, fightin' (/) for her life

 Then you hold her hand 'til that (/) heart of gold stops pumpin'

 Yeah, boy that's somethin'

 So, this ain't nothin'

No, this ain't nothin'