Chords for Merle Haggard & Little Jimmy Dickens

with robert duvall or willie nelson either one uh has got a lot of ben crossby influence because
i know that we both have that you know it's a funny thing bob willis was and ben crossby were
good friends but i _ idolized wills for for his ability to read to lead a band _ and it's truly
one of the people that i idolized all my life _ and i've come to know him over the years and love him
would you make welcome little jimmy dickens _ _
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_ _ _ there was a magic night up in louisville kentucky one time there'd been a look what they call a
guitar puller and that's where people kind of pass the guitar around and they they uh play their
latest song for each other and everybody had uh passed it all the way around and _ this man here got
up ready to leave and i asked him i said why haven't you written a song here [F#] for us _ he had
his guitar in his case already and he looked at me kind of funny and he just reached down and
_ took his guitar back out of the case and he started off with this song that [G] uh went number one for me
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thank [Em] goodness _ _ thank [G] _
goodness well i wrote the last half of it he didn't have he didn't have
the whole thing you see and uh it was just a great song and i and uh i said i think i can finish it for you
[F#] _ [Em] _ [G] _ _ _
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down through [Em] the ages _ [C] men have _ died for their women [G] _
_ and done so _ so _ _ [D] many times _ _
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ [G] each time i loved one _ _ [C]
i have _ always lost [G] one seems the right one _ [D] is so _ [G] hard to find
you got it on your _ own _ shopping _ for dresses _ with [C] no _ _ one worthy
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one _ in each color _ _ one [Bm] in [C] [D] each _ [Am]
style
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_ _ _ _ _ someday [C] _
_ _ _ _ to wear them _ [G] my shopping [D] will be done for [G] a _ while _
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habit somewhere lady _ _ he's [C] shopping _ _ for dresses
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_ pairing _ vows _ and the bridge hey we got to do it over [D] i said dress it's not dresses
that's the part you wrote i [G] know it _ [G#] okay _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ [N] we got i've got to say britches
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_ [C#] i got so into the [G] dresses there that [N] uh
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shopping for dresses _ _ _
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_ shopping _ _ _ [C] _ _
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[Am] is
maybe _ [D] _ _ _ [F#] _ _ [G] _
someday _ [Em] good lord _ _
[C] will bring us _ _ together _ [G] and we'll both have a new [D]
wardrobe _ [G] where _ sing for me
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] the one where _ _ them [G] _
_ one in each color _
_ and one in [D] each style _ _ _ _ _ [G] maybe someday _ a _ _ _
_ [C] _ lady to wear _ and [G] my shop _ will [D] be done
for [G] a while _ _ _ _ _ _ _ my shopping _ [D] will be done for [C] a while
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