Chords for Billy Joe Shaver & Dale Watson

_ _ _ _ [Ebm] _ _ [G] _
I got in some trouble here while [Em] barking, I just got out [Db] of it today.
_ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ [N]
Praise the Lord.
_ _ _ _ Praise the Lord and thank you.
Thank you so much for your prayers.
_ And you people that were putting curses and things on people you can lift them down. _
_ _ The voodoo doll who sold them for five bucks a week.
_ _ [F] _ I bought three of [Eb] them.
_ _ _ [N] _ _ Wait, wait, wait.
Is there any Lone Star Beer in this house?
_ Who loves Lone Star Beer?
I'm sorry. _ _ _ _ _
I _ paid for that.
_ [Eb]
It's secure.
_ Where do you want it?
[B] Where do you want it?
_ You can do anything for [N] money, I'm sure.
You're a whore.
No, _ [Dbm] _ _
he wrote a song about something I've done.
[N] I never have listened to it.
You have to listen to it or not.
I have never listened to it.
You gotta listen to it or not.
I will.
I will.
[B] _ _ He [Eb] is a gentleman's animal.
_ God bless [Db] you. _
[Ebm] _ [D] Alright. Alright.
[Cm] I'm going for a drink.
_ [Ab] _ _
_ There's something I [N] can't drink.
No, I can't drink.
[Eb] I can't open the bottle. _ _ _ _ _
_ [N] _ Okay. _ _ _
Alright.
Go ahead.
_ _ _ Alright. _
_ I gotta listen to it.
Alright. _
_ _ _ _ Give me a break.
What do you want?
_ _ _ [A] Yeah, what do you want?
[Ab]
I'm calling up Billy.
_ [D] Anyhow, he _ _ calls me [N] up.
Billy and I, after all this happened.
And he says, Billy, do you mind if I write a song about what I have been doing?
_ _ _ _ Yeah, we've been friends a long time.
I said, I _ really wish you wouldn't. _
Why are you doing it? _ _ _ _ _
He said, do you want to hear the [Eb] title?
I said, no.
He said, well, here it is. _
[N] _ And he tells me, he says, what do _ _ _ you want? _
[Ebm] _ [Bb] I didn't say [Ab] that.
I told him then I didn't say that.
I never did say that.
I told him then.
That's what [B] he said.
Everybody in [Ab] Waco, Erie, thinks I said that.
And I'm beginning [N] to think I said it too. _ _ _
It's beating into my head.
Everybody keeps saying the title.
I've never listened to the song.
_ But I [Abm] told him, I said, I'd rather you did it because you're a very good [Db] writer.
I'd rather you [C] did it than anybody [Eb] else.
So go ahead and do it.
Well, let me [N] expound.
He said, he said, he said, well, we're taking it to Vegas.
He said, sometimes, you know, songs are like your children.
_ And it's a plain fact, some people's children [G] are ugly.
_ _ [N] But you love them anyway.
You love them anyway.
He said, you got to show them [G] anyway.
Be proud of it.
And so here you go.
You got an ugly youngin'. All right.
You got to show it.
[Db] Show it.
[B] [G] Give me a G, boys.
Give me a half time.
One, _ two, three, four.
Blocking down. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Oh, yeah. _ _
_ _ How's the weather going?
_ Had a place called Papa Joe's.
I heard the [C] same song.
_ Oh, man, Billy Joe.
Got [G] a nice angle.
Oh, what a nice Billy.
What is good?
But can [A] I hear this?
[G] Billy asked him some questions. _ _ _
_ _ _ He said, I [C] don't know your daughter.
_ Give [D] me my best day.
[G] _ _
_ _ _ Leave me alone.
[C] I'll ask you, where [Cm] do you want it?
_ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ What?
[D] Billy's _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [B] _
_ [G] _ _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] reputation.
This kind of guy wouldn't hurt a fly but with provocation.
And you know Billy's wife, her [B] son, Billy,
[G] had some nerve.
And that old boy just jumped right on it.
So Billy asked him, hey, where do you want it?
Oh, oh, oh.
_ All right.
Wait a [C] second.
_ _ _ [Bm] [Cm] Give me my [G] best day. What? _ _ _ _
Leave me alone.
_ [C] _ _ [Eb] Where [G] do you want it?
_ Where do you want it?
_ I'm going to worry about you.
It's a bad sign.
[C] Go away.
[D] _
Give me my best day.
[G] _ _ _ _
_ _ Leave me alone.
I'll [D] ask you, where [G] do you want it?
Billy asked him, where do you want it? _ _ _
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_ _ _ We used to have the [N] best songwriter Texas ever had, Billy Joe Silverhand. _ _
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