Chords for Ben Haggard | Here For The Music | Fender

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[D] I [Bb] live the kind of life _ _ [Eb] _ [Gm] that most men only dream [Bb] of. _ _ _ _ _
[C] [Bb] You know, I think being simplistic is something that people forget about.
It's just, if I feel like [Eb] there's something that I want to portray, an acoustic's going
to be [Dm] the immediate grab.
You know, I'm not going to [C] grab a telly quite yet.
From a songwriter's point of view, an acoustic guitar is just an expression of yourself.
If you can figure [F] out how to subconsciously play it while you're [Dm] worried about [Bb] singing,
you've got it made.
_ You know, if you can [E] make it sound good on an acoustic, it'll sound ten [Bb] times better
on an electric.
The best [Eb] things seem to happen in conversation.
[Bb] If you listen to great songs, they're talking to you.
You know, like Mama Tried, for instance, or Footlights.
It was about a guy that dedicated his life to music, and that's all he had to do.
And if he was [Eb] upset or if he was down, no matter what he had to do, he had to go out
there [Bb] and sing.
For those people that spent their hard-earned money to buy that ticket, he had to be Merle Haggard.
My father said, if you can figure [F] out how to make one note hit somebody in the heart,
you've got it figured out.
When he died and passed away, I [D] kind of took [Bb] on a new meaning to that, because essentially
I was up next.
You know, everybody's looking at, well, what was he going to do?
You know, so I'd step up to the mic, [Eb] and I feel like that song kind of [Cm] connects with
me in a different [Dm] way, because I've had to learn how to kick the footlights out for him,
in a sense.
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_ _ _ But on my own in [F] Stonematic brand, _ _ tonight I'll kick the [E] footlights [Bb] out again.
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