C x4 C C F C Me and Willie played in a country band F C G G Seven long years together playing those one night stands C C F C Used to say the booze and bars is going to wear him out F C G G Hold On, a song he wrote tear your heart right out C C F C We traveled the northern route and from the Greate Lakes to Monreal F C G G Hitting all the honkytonks, I bet we played them all C C F C Willie played to ease his soul and drank to ease his mind F C G G I never understood how he played it so good while drinking himseld half blind. And you.. F G Am Wouldn't think a Man so weak ... could be so F Dm Am strong.... Take a crowd of rowdy drunks and G hush them with a song And I'd C F G Am G F rather be singing my heart out in a dark and dingy bar F C G Hitting those high notes with Willie's sad guitar. And I'd C F G Am G F rather be singing a blues song singing sweet and high F C G C Willie standing right by my side playing country slide C F G Am G F C G Am G F C C C F C Me and Willie watched a lot of dreams die young. F C G G Plans we made how quick they fade, fumbling one by one. C C F C Willie never let it bother him and if he did, it didn't show. F C G G You know he had a way of letting go am king the blue times old. And you ... F G Am Wouldn't think a Man so weak ... could be so F Dm Am strong.... Take a crowd of rowdy drunks and G hush them with a song And I'd C F G Am G F rather be singing my heart out in a dark and dingy bar F C G Hitting those high notes with Willie's sad guitar. And I'd C F G Am G F rather be singing a blues song singing sweet and high F C G C Willie standing right by my side playing country slide C C F C I left Willie in a bar in Marietta F C G G Couldn't stand to watch the man I love drink himself to death. C C F C Now I'm working in Ottawa and I'm doing well I guess. F C G G You know the good life don't look so good from behind a desk And I'd C F G Am G F rather be singing my heart out in a dark and dingy bar F C G Hitting those high notes with Willie's sad guitar. And I'd C F G Am G F rather be singing a blues song singing sweet and high F C G C Willie standing right by my side playing country slide
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