Chords for Suzy Bogguss and Jerry Jeff Walker - Night Rider's Lament (live)

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Now here is Suzy Boggess with Jerry Jeff [D] Walker.
_ _ _ Thank you.
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Well, let's get started.
Where did you first start playing music?
I started playing music in college.
_ _ I grew up in a real small town and did not even _ recognize the fact that you could be an entertainer as a profession until I got into college.
And I saw some other folks that were playing in local coffee houses and little _ nightclubs out around.
And so I started watching them and decided that I wanted to do that to just sort of make some extra money on the side.
And it goes back to that folk boom again.
We were talking about some of the other shows that [F] it was nice that little people [E] playing two or three guitars could get up and [Gb] sing.
And the songs are [F] the most important part of it.
[Ebm] And it seemed like _ the songs were very important to the whole process.
So it looked good to [Ab] you.
Enjoyed doing it.
You start playing for yourself and _ _ _ trying it out.
Did you go sit into some of those places to play?
_ Actually, I didn't really sit in any place.
My first thing I did was went in and got a job and I worked for seven dollars and all the beer and pizza I could hold.
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Which was a bad deal for that guy.
He turned out to find out later. _ _ _
Yeah, they took all the beer I could drink right off my rider.
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[Gb] Well, when you realize you're not getting paid very much, you better get into [Ebm] it.
That's exactly right.
I used to take the pizza home with me and everything for my roommates, everybody.
I noticed you drifted out west.
You were out through Colorado and that part of the country.
And the music becomes more of a way of life there than it maybe did in the beginning.
You see people like to have their life sung about and played about.
Yeah.
[Ab] Every place that I've been, I've learned something more about people's attitudes towards music.
And after I graduated from college, I took a drive with a friend of mine out to Boulder, Colorado.
And I saw people.
All right, Boulder.
And I saw these people playing out on the streets for tips and _ _ learning things from each other.
Sitting around and playing guitars and sort of teaching songs to each other.
And _ it just that really appealed to me.
This kind of brotherhood or fellowship that was there with the music there.
And so I started going back there a lot and kind of worked out little circuits that I could play in.
So how did you discover Ian's music?
_ I know that's where Someday Soon came from.
Yeah, well, I guess through the different people that I met along the lines.
In _ _ fact, that's how I got turned on to your music.
Actually, I heard your songs when I [E] was out in Wyoming.
Well, we do share a song.
Yes.
And I found that out today.
You've been doing Knight Riders of the Man.
Right.
And this was during that trip.
I didn't have enough gas money to get back to Illinois.
So I took a job on a Saturday night with about seven local ranchers that did this gig.
And they told me that the only prerequisite was that I learned 15 Hank Williams songs. _ _ _
[B] So I bought this book and I sang every Hank Williams song that you could ever imagine in the whole wide world.
But they sang this [A] song.
And [Ab] so I stopped at the nearest truck stop and bought _ Riding High and learned [A] how to yodel on my way home.
OK, great. _ _
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_ _ And I might have said by the time I got back to Illinois, I had no voice.
I [Bb] sounded like a frog.
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So will you join me?
Yep, I'll try.
OK.
_ I kind of had to adapt it a little bit.
So.
Oh, yeah, we were going to talk about that.
You made it into a first person for a girl.
[Ab] Well, kind of.
[Bm] I don't really know what person I made it into.
It still doesn't make much sense, but.
But you liked it.
You sang it.
Let's hear how [A] you do.
_ It's really _ not really from a girl standpoint still, but you're supposed to be able to do that in folk music, aren't you?
_ I guess so. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ When [A] you never come back.
_ She's the [E] perfect _ professional.
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And _ _ _ _ _ _ she asked me, why [E] does he ride [A] for his money? _ _ _ _
Why [E] does he roll [A] short?
_ _ _ _ He ain't getting _ [E] nowhere.
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He's losing [D] his.
She. _ _
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_ [E] Oh, he must have gone crazy [A] out there. _
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[Gbm] But then [D] they never _ [E]
see [A] the _ northern lights [D] and never [E] see it.
_ _ [A] Oh, we _ _ _ [D] never _ [E] seen a spring.
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[D] _ Divide. _ _ _
[Bm] _ _ _ _ No, I [A] never heard.
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I'll sing it.
Cookie. _ _ _ _
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Well, I read the last of [D] the letter _ _ _ _ and tore off the stamp.
Black [E] Jim. _ _
[A] [D] Then Billy wrote [A] to leave me. _ _
He [E] just looked at the letter [A] and. _ _ _
[Bm] And he _ said, why _ do they [E] ride for their money? _ _
And why do they roll the short? _ _
[Ab] They _ [D] ain't getting [E] nowhere.
_ _ [A] _ And [D] they're saying, _ _ _
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[E] oh, they all must be crazy [A] out there. _ _ _
_ _ _ But then [D] they never _ [E] see _
[A] the northern lights.
[D] Never see [E] a hawk.
[A] Oh, we _ _ never _ [D] _ seen [E] a spring.
[A] The.
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_ _ _ No, I [E] never heard.
Oh, can you _ sing? _ _ _ _
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_ Thank you. _ _
We're glad to [Ab] have you as a guest in Texas and come back anytime [B] and say _ _
[Db] we're glad to have you as a guest in Texas and come back anytime and say thank you so much.
I had a wonderful time.
[Ab] OK, let's play some more music. _
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