Chords for Connie Smith and Marty Stuart, The Farmer's Blues

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_ _ _ _ _ What a day!
_ Oh, one time when we were home by ourselves and you picked up the guitar and we wrote
three songs that day.
And this is one of my favorite of all the ones you've written. _
The Farmers' Blue.
Yes.
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Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
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We're going to talk about a syndrome today.
Palisades or the home of Merle Haggard.
And he wanted me to send his congratulations to you for your residency at the Hall of Fame.
First female artist in the history of country music. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ Here's to them.
He wrote a song.
_ And he wanted me to read this on your behalf tonight.
_ _ It's called Too Much Boogie Woogie by Merle Haggard.
Published by Merle Haggard Music.
He's a BMI writer. _ _ _
_ It says, Dear Connie, _ wish my whole life was patterned after _ 1953.
_ When I could find a drive and pick myself, I'd come to Jim Blue.
_ _ Now there's people picking on their opry, and we don't know who they're with.
There's too much boogie woogie and not enough confidence.
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Second verse.
Truth about the matter, it's enough to make you cry.
_ If you don't know what I'm talking about, have your lunch and say goodbye.
Some of this mess they call country music ought to be down in the big abyss.
_ There's too much boogie woogie and not enough confidence. _ _
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Thank _ God for Marty Stewart and what he's trying to do.
_ Praise the Lord for Willie, and thanks for Haggard too. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ [B] Published by Merle Haggard [N] Music.
_ _ These words will draw a picture before we lose our greatest gift.
In my opinion, there's too much boogie woogie in the world and not enough confidence. _ _ _ _
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_ [D] recording Farmers Blues with you, and that video y'all did [G] is one of my all-time favorite videos.
Me too. _
_ _ [D] Who [Em] _ _ _ [D] _
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_ _ [G] _ _ buy my wheat?
Who [B] buy my corn?
[G] To feed their _ babies when they're born. _
Teeds and dirt, a prayerful rain that I [D] can use.
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_ [D] _ _ [E] I [G] work the land, [A] I watch [Em] the sky.
I talk [C] to _ God [G] and wonder why. _
It's the [E] _ _ [Em] only life [D] I know, [E] these _ [G] Farmers Blues. _
_ _ _ I see [D] the _ seasons come and go. _
[E] Scented [C] _ rain, fire [G] and snow.
I lack the mercy of it all.
This [D] life I choose.
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_ [Am] _ _ _ [G] Sometimes I hang [Em] my head and cry.
_ As [C] that _ evening [G] train goes by.
Wish [Ab] it would [E] take [G] me far away [D] from these [G] _ Farmers Blues. _
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_ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ The tractor's broke, [Gb] the fence is [B] down. _
[Em] Put on [C] my suit and go [G] to town.
_ Ask for a loan [A] that I [G] know well [E] they might [D] refuse.
_ [A] _ _ [D] _ _ [E] While [G] back at home, still by my side.
The one [C] I love [G] with worried _ eyes.
[Em] Waits for me to love [C] away [Am] [G] these Farmers Blues.
[C] _ [G] _ _ I see [D] the _ seasons come and go.
[C] Scented _ rain, [G] fire and snow.
I lack the mercy of it all.
This [D] life I _ [A] choose.
_ [D] _ _ _ [A] Sometimes [G] I hang my head and cry.
[C] As that _ evening [G] train goes by.
[E] Wish it would _ take me [G] far away [C] from these [G] Farmers _ Blues.
_ _ _ Oh, [C] let it [D] _
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rain.
_ _ _ _ _ [C] Let it _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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