[Verse]
D                      G            
Boy gets a guitar and starts writing
  D 
 songs 
Boy gets a guitar and starts writing songs 
D                            G       
Bout whiskey and women and gettin too
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 stoned 
Bout whiskey and women and gettin too stoned 
D                       G            
He got all three at the first show he
  Bm 
 played 
He got all three at the first show he played 
              D                  
Hometown says I don’t think Jesus
  G            D 
 done it that way
Hometown says I don’t think Jesus done it that way
[Verse]
D                       G            
Boy moves to city lives fast and goes
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 hard 
Boy moves to city lives fast and goes hard 
D                               
Starts chasing the devil through
  G          D 
 honky tonk bars 
Starts chasing the devil through honky tonk bars 
D                       G           
Ignoring the voices in his head that
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 say 
Ignoring the voices in his head that say 
D                   G             D 
I don’t think Jesus done it this way
[Chorus]
G                       D 
If I was him I’d say to hell with you
 
If I was him I’d say to hell with you 
 A 
Ain’t no helping you 
G                           D 
Find someone else to give Heaven to 
 A 
I’m telling you 
 Bm                A               G
I'd shame me, I'd blame me, I'd make
        D/F#   Em 
 me pay for my mistakes 
I'd shame me, I'd blame me, I'd make me pay for my mistakes 
       D                    G     
Oh but I don’t think Jesus does it
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 that way
Oh but I don’t think Jesus does it that way
[Verse]
D                      G           D 
Boy’s all alone got no one to turn to
 
Boy’s all alone got no one to turn to 
D                                 G  
He figures he’ll pray cause what else
          D 
 could he do 
He figures he’ll pray cause what else could he do 
D                                  
He says I wish you would’ve woke me
       G       Bm 
 up an easier way 
He says I wish you would’ve woke me up an easier way 
    D                    G          
But I don’t think Jesus does it that
  D 
 way
But I don’t think Jesus does it that way
[Chorus]
G                       D 
If I was him I’d say to hell with you
 
If I was him I’d say to hell with you 
 A 
Ain’t no helping you 
G                           D 
Find someone else to give Heaven to 
 A 
I’m telling you 
 Bm                A               G
I'd shame me, I'd blame me, I'd make
        D/F#   Em 
 me pay for my mistakes 
I'd shame me, I'd blame me, I'd make me pay for my mistakes 
       D                    G     
Oh but I don’t think Jesus does it
       D 
 that way
Oh but I don’t think Jesus does it that way
[Verse]
D                             G     
World likes to rear back and throw a
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 few stones 
World likes to rear back and throw a few stones 
D                             G      
So boy wants to throw a few stones of
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 his own 
So boy wants to throw a few stones of his own 
D                               G
Lord knows I ain’t perfect and it
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 ain’t my place 
Lord knows I ain’t perfect and it ain’t my place 
    D                    G          
But I don’t think Jesus done it that
  D 
 way
But I don’t think Jesus done it that way
[Outro]
    D                      G     
Are y’all sure that Jesus done it
       D 
 that way?
Are y’all sure that Jesus done it that way?