Chords for Luchenbach, Texas - Guitar Lesson and Tutorial - Waylon Jennings

_ _ Lückenbach, Texas was a number one hit for country artist Waylon Jennings and was written
by Chips Momin and Bobby Emmons.
The song's in the key of G, and there's only four chords and one strum pattern to learn
on the acoustic guitar.
On the lead guitar, there's a number of interesting riffs happening all the way throughout the song. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ _
[C] The guitar's [D] too big, _ [G] _ I _ [C] don't need my name in the [G] marquee lights. _
_ [C] I got my [D] song and I got you [G] with me tonight. _
_ Maybe it's time we [D] got to the [G] basics of love.
_ Let's go to Lückenbach, Texas.
_ Waylon, Waylon, and [C] the boys. _
_ _ _ [G] We're all [C] _ poor cogs riding and [Am] we're still belted up.
[C] Maybe it's time [D] we got to the [G] basics of love.
_ _ _ _ Let's go to Lückenbach, Texas.
_ Waylon, Waylon, [C] and the boys. _
_ _ _ _ [D] This successful life we're living, gotta treat me like a [C] happy poor cog riding [A] and we're
still belted [B] up.
[G] Maybe it's time we [D] got to the basics of [G] love. _ _
_ _ Let's go to Lückenbach, Texas.
Busy keeping up with the joys [C] of poor cog riding and [Am] we're still belted up.
[C] Maybe it's time [D] we got _ to the basics of love.
Alright, we only really have four chords and one strum pattern to go over here, and then
we have to learn the chorus and the verse progression.
So let's start by learning [G] the chords.
We're going to start with a G chord.
_ It's a standard G chord.
As always, we've got chord diagrams right beneath the video player that will give you fingerings for these.
And then we [C] have a standard C chord. _
A lot of times on the site we play a C too, but we're going to play an actual C chord
for this song.
So that's third fret of A, [G] second fret of D, [C] open G.
Pointer finger goes on the first fret of B, open high E.
Then [D] we have a standard D chord _ _ [Am] and a standard A minor chord. _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] Alright, so let's start by going through the strum pattern.
The strum pattern is the same whenever we're strumming.
It looks like this. _
_ _ _ _ _ Down, up, down, up, down, up, down, down, up, down, up, down, up, down. _
But if we just did down, up, down, up, down, up, down, the same with every strum, it would
sound like this. _ _ _ _ _
_ We're not really looking for it to sound like that.
We're looking to vary how hard we're hitting the strings and where we're connecting with
the strings on our strumming.
It _ doesn't matter exactly where we're hitting it, we just want it to sound a little bit
varied.
So more like this.
Down, up, down, up, down, up, down, down, up, down, up, down, up, down. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
So let's start going through the chorus.
The first verse is just played by the electric guitar.
One, two, three, go. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ [G] Alright, we're going to walk through all the different lead guitar parts in the order that
we encounter them in the song.
So let's start with the first verse.
The first verse until the very end, we're just playing one strum per chord.
So we'll start on a G chord, standard G chord.
There's chord diagrams beneath the video player that will also apply to the lead guitar here
if you're looking to get fingerings.
So we're going to do one strum on the G chord.
The only two things in life [D] on a D chord that [G] make it worth living, back to a G.
_ _ _ And then [C] is guitars tuned good?
[D] _ [F#] We're going to call this first one a G lick because we're going to do this a lot in the
song over G chords.
And it looks like this.
[Bm] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [Em] _ [G] _ _
One [Em] and two and [G] three and four.
One and two and three and four.
So we've got our [F#] pinky finger, fourth fret of D.
[G] Open G string.
Then either the pointer finger or the middle finger can go [E] down to the second fret of D.
And then [D] open D.
_ One [G] and two and three and four.
One and two and three.
Go.
The only two [D] things in life [G] that make it worth living. _
_ [C] _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [F#] Here's the chorus.
_ One, two, three.
Let's go [G] to_ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _
Let's go to Luke, read my texts.
Waitin' and waitin' [C] at the door. _ _ _ _
This [D] successful life we're livin'.
Got us feelin' like the [G] happiest day of the quarter. _ _ _ _ _
It's true.
Take this pain down.
It's [N] very