Jerry Jeff Walker & Willie Nelson, Man with the Big Hat Chords

_ _ _ I want you to all try to sing along.
I'm the man with the big hat.
Anyway, there's a chorus to this song.
I'm sure you can pick it up as it goes by.
It happens three or four times in the song.
So why don't you [C#m] join Willie and I while we sing?
[Bm] _ _ [E] _
_ [A] _ _ [C#m] _ _ [Bm] _
_ [E] _ [A] Been a little bar in Texas
Was [C#m] on a sultry summer day
[F#] The cowboy coming off the road [E] just to pass the time away
_ [A] Pulled the stool up to the bar.
He [C#m] pushed his hat back on his head
[B] But listen to the stories told [E] the words gal bar said he [A] said I can tell you stories
about [G] the Indians on the plane
[D] Talk about Wells Fargo [B] and the coming of [E] the train.
_ _ _ [A]
I
Can talk about the slaughter [G] of the Buffalo the wrong?
_ [D] Sing you song to settle come [B] out looking for [E] a home
_ _ [A] and the man
[D] With a big [A] hat is fine _
Drink up [D] while the drink [E] is free
_ [D] Drink up to [G] the cowboys
[E] _ _ [A] Bring _
_ [E] to [Bm] my
[A] Me _ drink [E] to [Bm] my
God risen me
[C#m] _ _ [F#] _
_ _ [A] Well shirt brown faded
_ [C#m] That was white and black
[Bm] The pants at once were blue or gray.
[E] They had a pocketball on him back
_ [A] He had a finger missing [C#m] from the hand that rolled a smoke
[Bm] As he left and talked to cowboy life.
[E] He knew it were no joke.
[A] He said I
Wrote on the cattle [G] drives from here to San Antonio
[D] in days in the saddle and
[B]
weary [E] to the ball I
_ [A]
wrote from here to Wichita
[G] without a woman's smile
[D] In the campfire where I put my beans [B] was the only [E] light for my
_ [A] and the man
[D] _ _ [A] By _
_ Drink [D] up while the drink [E] is free
_ [D] Bring up [G] to a [E] cowboys
_ [A] _ _ _
[E] Bring to [Bm] my
[A] Me
_ _ [E] Drink to [B] my
_ [A] Me
[C#m] _ _ [Bm] _
_ [E] _ _ [A] Rested easy at the bar
[C#m] His foot upon the rail, [Bm] you know, he laughed and talked to times he'd had [E] while living on the trail
[A] The silence never broke him [C#m] as the words poured from his lips
[Bm] Just as quiet as the 45
[E] Carried on his hip.
He [A] said I've seen the day so hot [G] that your pony could not stand
_ [D] But if your water bag was dry, [B] don't start counting [E] on the land
_ [A] And winners I've seen winners [G] when your boots froze in snow
[D] And your only thoughts was leaving [B] but you had no [E] place to go
_ _ [A] _
_ [D] _ _ [A] _ _ _
Drink up
[D] _ _ [E] _
_ Drink [D] up [G] to a cow
[E] _ _ _ _ [A]
Drink [E] to my
_ [A] _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ [Bm] _
[A] Me
_ [C#m] _ _ [Bm] _
_ [E] _ [A] Well, they roll one more cigarette
[C#m] As he turned toward the door.
[F#] I could hear the spurs of jingling [E] as the boot heels hit the floor
_ [A] He loosened up his belt a notch [C#m] to pull his hat down on his head
[Bm] As he turned to say goodbye to me.
[E] This is what the cowboy said
[A] Now the highline states the highway [G] and the fences closed the rain
[D] And the sea of work in cowboy [B] is a sight that's mighty [E] strange
_ _ [A]
Cowboys life was lonely and [G] his lot was not
It [D] had not been for men like me [B] you would not have [E] no
_ _ _ [A] _
_ [D] _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ [D] While drinking [E] is free
_ [D] Drink up to [G] the [E] cowboys did or die _
Drink to my
[Bm] dreams [A] and me
_ _ [E] Drink to my
[Bm]
dreams [A] and [C#m] me
_ [F#] _
_ So we [A] did [C#m] all _ [F#m] night [E] long
_ [A] _
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