Chords for Jerry Jeff Walker Discusses Writing Mr. Bojangles & More with Bruce Robison on The Next Waltz

[N] _ _ _ _ _ Places. _
[D] _ _ Places.
Places everyone. _
_ _ Well let me try [G] this out.
_ [B] Susan said [Ab] before we cut Redneck Mother I was a singer and a songwriter.
_ After that I became a barman [G] yayhoo. _ _ _
_ _ When everybody [F] around you is [Em] drinking and having a good time,
_ [F] how quickly it all kind of [A] catches up with you and whirls you around.
[G] _
The next thing you know, [D] _ _ _ _
[F] some bills aren't paid and you're in some kind of a fix.
[C] Then _ _ _ you have to kind of [G] pull it together and straighten out. _
Something like that.
I love that.
And come back out. _ _ _
I don't drink _ _ [D] as much as [Em] I'd like to, _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [C] but lately _ _ [D] it just ain't my [G] _ style. _ _ _ _
[Em] What is the better first line of a [G] song ever?
I'm going to put it top five.
What?
What do you think?
[Abm] What do you think?
I knew a man from Tango City. _
I mean that's [Dm] amazing.
What's it like to write a piece of American_
[C] Well what I did was I sat around and I probably [E] went_
I said I _ [C] knew a girl, she was my world_
I [Ab] was trying to fool with the [Cm] internal _ descending [B] lines.
The power of a descending [Am] line.
_ [C] _ _ [Em] _ [C] I knew a girl, [B] she was my world [Eb] and she swirled_
And I wanted to [Ab] find _ _ internal rhymes [Eb] that I'd heard about them.
_ [C] _ _ [Cm] I didn't know what they were.
[C] _ _ So I said [A] internal lines, it's got a bing, bong, boom, [Gb] bam, bam.
[C] So I knew a man from Tango City, [Ab] he danced [Am] for you.
And because I put internal rhymes in a song about a dancer,
_ it kind of double [Gb] compounded it.
_ _ [Abm] That's why [G] so many people [C] I think like_
And it was 6 8th Waltz.
[F] _ _
[A] When I got to Atlantic Records they said,
[Em] _
who the [C] hell would want a four and a half minute song
about an old [F] drunk and a dead dog and [C] 6 8 [A] times?
Right, right, apparently everyone.
_ [C] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ _ _ He [C] danced with those at [F] Minnesota _ [Am] County Fair _ _ _
[F] _ _ Two out the [G] _
South
_ _ _ [C] _ Spoke with tears [Em] of 15 [Am] years
How a [C] dog in [F] him
_ _ _ Traveled [G]
about
_ _ _ _ [F] _ _
His dog up [E] and died _ _ _
He up and [C] died
_ _ [D] _
_ 20 years he's [G] still green
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Said [E] to dance now [C] at every [Am] dance in the honky tonk
_ [C] _ _ [F] _ _
_ Drinks and [G] tips _ _
_ [F] Most of the time [C] I just stand behind these [Am] county bars
_ _ [F] _ _
Hell, I drink some [G] beer _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ He shook his [Em] head
_ [E] _ And as [A] he shook his [C] head
_ _ _ [D] _ I heard someone ask to speak
I was [G] sort of headed towards California.
_ _ _ But I drove through Austin, of course you've got to stop at Austin
[Eb] if you're going that way.
And [E] _ so I went in there and ran into the Gonzo Band
[F] which is Gary Nunn and Bob Livingston.
[C] So all of a sudden I'm in the mix of the cosmic cowboy [Eb] scene.
_ The reason I stay here is because of my wife. _
She loves, yeah, [Am] she's as happy as she can be.
She has the house she wanted in Austin.
My kids like it [Gb] too, so I'm sort of [G] there.
But I _ always thought that I might
Live out in _ California _
Where the [Gb] weather's great, [D] no allergies [G] to speak _ of _ _
I live somewhere north [C] of [G] San Francisco
_ [Gb] In the _
_ [D] redwoods where they [G] make the wine
_ _ _ I was headed that way once
_ _ _ When I stopped off in Austin
_ _ To see an old [D] friend from long [G] ago _
_ _ _ _ _ One night at a party
_ I met her and I thought that
_ _ She's the one that just might [D] lead me [G] on
_ _ _ _ Well I [Am] fell in love with [D] a girl
_ _ Born and raised in [Em] Texas
_ [A] _ _
Stole my [Cm] heart and I lost my [G] rambling ways
_ _ _ _ _ The [Am] years flew by so [D] quickly
_ _ _ Raising up the family
[Em] _ _ Where [C] you fall in love [G] is where you stay
_ I _ _ _ _ _ _ _ have a question about the [C] magic. _
_ _ _ _ I'm questioning the [G] magic.
_ _ _ _ The magic the morning [B] is bringing.
_ _ [Bb] _
Okay, [F] alright, _ thanks. _ _
_ _ [G] Alright. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ Okay. _ _ _
[Bb] Going back on stage. _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
[Bm] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
We're going.
One, [Gm] two, three, one, two. _ _ _ _
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