Chords for Merle Haggard and Freddie Powers
Tempo:
50.2 bpm
Chords used:
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Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Jam Along & Learn...
Nashville now and Merle Haggard and Freddy Powers are gonna strum the guitars and sing a little song for you that
Several of us have heard it like it a lot the title of which is
Yeah
Wouldn't that be something if I could show you I could spread my wings [A] and fly away
Wouldn't that be [E] something I would ask you to fly with me on some wild and windy day
[D] that be something?
[A] like you needed me
You'd probably laugh if you could see the dream I had last night
Several of us have heard it like it a lot the title of which is
Yeah
Wouldn't that be something if I could show you I could spread my wings [A] and fly away
Wouldn't that be [E] something I would ask you to fly with me on some wild and windy day
[D] that be something?
[A] like you needed me
You'd probably laugh if you could see the dream I had last night
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Nashville now and Merle Haggard and Freddy Powers are gonna strum the guitars and sing a little song for you that
Several of us have heard it like it a lot the title of which is
Wouldn't that be something I think is what you're talking about.
Wouldn't that be something?
Yeah
We we wrote this for Johnny Cash [E] and we'll do it tonight for Bonnie Owens _
Wouldn't that be something if I could show you I could spread my wings [A] and fly away
Wouldn't that be [E] something I would ask you to fly with me on some wild and windy day
Wouldn't [D] that be something?
We both fell together and you threw your arms around me [A] like you needed me
[E] Wouldn't that be something?
[A] Wouldn't that be something? _
You'd probably laugh if you could see the dream I had last night
[F#m] You and I together on [B] our maiden rocket flight
[A] We were seated there together
With your happy frightened look and you and I got a young [E] again on that a [A] rocket trip
We took wouldn't that [E] be something?
If you could look at me and see [A] somebody great again
Wouldn't that be [E] something?
We could really fly away and [A] both be young again
Wouldn't that be [D] something?
We could look inside each other's minds and always find each other [A] when we needed to
Wouldn't that [E] be something?
Wouldn't that be something?
[A] _ _ _ [N] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Wouldn't _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ that be something?
We picked him in June up we worked I think it was Detroit together or somewhere up in there
And we went out picked him up and got him in the bus and sang him those three songs
And wouldn't let him go up on stage until he had
Committed to cut him.
You hold it hold him down and force feed him
Fed [G#] him some songs.
Yeah, we've got time for another song.
What else do you feel like singing?
I could do another one that we can do for cash.
I could do I
Could do probably
The what Diana?
Oh, [D] that's Dave Kirby's song.
I don't know
Let [A] me do this little thing I got it on my mind I
Wrote this for John _
[E] Color me shiny
_ Don't color [A] me dead _
Color [E] me black, babe
_ Our color [A] me red _
Color [D] me right, babe
Don't color [A] me wrong
And don't color [E] me lonely and don't color [A] me gone _
[E] Don't color me brown cuz I love [A] to fly _
Color [B] me blue, babe
Like the blue [E] in the sky _
It's all [D] in your hands now paint the right [A] color on _
And don't color [E] me lonely
_ Don't [A] color me gone _
_ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _
Several of us have heard it like it a lot the title of which is
Wouldn't that be something I think is what you're talking about.
Wouldn't that be something?
Yeah
We we wrote this for Johnny Cash [E] and we'll do it tonight for Bonnie Owens _
Wouldn't that be something if I could show you I could spread my wings [A] and fly away
Wouldn't that be [E] something I would ask you to fly with me on some wild and windy day
Wouldn't [D] that be something?
We both fell together and you threw your arms around me [A] like you needed me
[E] Wouldn't that be something?
[A] Wouldn't that be something? _
You'd probably laugh if you could see the dream I had last night
[F#m] You and I together on [B] our maiden rocket flight
[A] We were seated there together
With your happy frightened look and you and I got a young [E] again on that a [A] rocket trip
We took wouldn't that [E] be something?
If you could look at me and see [A] somebody great again
Wouldn't that be [E] something?
We could really fly away and [A] both be young again
Wouldn't that be [D] something?
We could look inside each other's minds and always find each other [A] when we needed to
Wouldn't that [E] be something?
Wouldn't that be something?
[A] _ _ _ [N] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Wouldn't _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ that be something?
We picked him in June up we worked I think it was Detroit together or somewhere up in there
And we went out picked him up and got him in the bus and sang him those three songs
And wouldn't let him go up on stage until he had
Committed to cut him.
You hold it hold him down and force feed him
Fed [G#] him some songs.
Yeah, we've got time for another song.
What else do you feel like singing?
I could do another one that we can do for cash.
I could do I
Could do probably
The what Diana?
Oh, [D] that's Dave Kirby's song.
I don't know
Let [A] me do this little thing I got it on my mind I
Wrote this for John _
[E] Color me shiny
_ Don't color [A] me dead _
Color [E] me black, babe
_ Our color [A] me red _
Color [D] me right, babe
Don't color [A] me wrong
And don't color [E] me lonely and don't color [A] me gone _
[E] Don't color me brown cuz I love [A] to fly _
Color [B] me blue, babe
Like the blue [E] in the sky _
It's all [D] in your hands now paint the right [A] color on _
And don't color [E] me lonely
_ Don't [A] color me gone _
_ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _