Chords for The First Time I Met Waylon...

_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ Darling, let's turn back the years
_ And go back to [D] yesterday
_ _ _ _ Let's pretend that time has stopped
You didn't go [Gm] away
_ _ [G] _ _ The first time I met Waylon, I was about 20 years old.
He didn't know much about me [D] really, except that I could sing.
Barney and I were [A] rehearsing with his wife, Jessie [D] Colter, at Capitol Records there in Hollywood.
Getting ready for her big debut at the Santa [G] Monica Civic. _
Her producer, Ken Mansfield, had turned us on to the gig.
She had a huge hit with I'm Not Lisa.
[D] It was breaking all kinds of records and crossing over where no [G] country artist had ever gone [D] before.
_ [A] Whenever she was in [D] town, whether it was to record or perform
[G] or film the midnight specials for television, we got the call.
It was a very exciting time.
_ [D] Just to make life a little more [D] exciting, Waylon decided to shake Nashville up a bit
and [G] do an album out [D] in L.A.
_ Now you've got to understand, back then that was considered [G] country music treason. _
He called Barney and I to record with him at Sound Lab Studios.
It was the Are You Ready for the Country [Gm] album.
_ [D] I remember I was sitting there watching him one night while he [Am] was in the ISO booth
putting on his [D] vocals.
He asked me to come out and sing with him for the very first time. _
[G] _ Oh man, my knees were knocking and I was [Gm] suddenly seven years [G] old.
The booth was small. _
Old Waylon, well, [D] _ he'd been up for a while.
The way he was squirreling around made me wonder how the engineer, John Mills,
was ever going to [Am] be able to get a clean vocal.
[Gm] I [Em] looked into the control [G] room and there were musicians, _ celebrities, [D] movers and [G] shakers.
_ [Em] Waylon liked to throw you in.
[D] He figured you'd either sink or swim and that's pretty much up to you.
You [G] planned on running with him, you better be able to make some mighty quick turns.
_ He looked down at me and he said,
So, you want to do it? _
_ _ Well, if I was going home, it wasn't going to be because I choked.
_ No, sir.
Not this time.
I stepped up to the mic and I simply sang, _ _
[C] Are you ready for the country?
[Bb] Are you ready [G] for me?
_ _ Are _ [C] you ready for the country?
[Bb] Ain't I a sight [G] to see? _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ [Dm] Sing it for me, [G] baby. _
_ [C] Slipping and sliding, [Bb] playing _ [G] dominoes _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] Left a man a-riding
[Bb] It ain't a crime, [G] you know _ _ _ _ _
[D] Oh, well, I gotta tell the [C] story
[Bb] Before it's [G] time to go _ _ _ _ _
[C] Are you ready for the country?
[Bb] Are you ready [G] for me?
_ [Dm] _ _ _ [G] _
[C] Are you ready for the country?
[Bb] Ain't I a sight [G] to see? _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [Bb] _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _
[C] I was talking to a preacher, said [Bb] God was [G] on the side _ _ _ _ _
[C] I was running with the pusher
They [Bb] both were sailing [G] high _ _ _ _ _
[D] Oh, I'm gonna tell the story, boys
[Bb] And you know the [G] reason why _ _ _ _ _
Are you [Gm] ready for the country?
[C] Are [Bb] you ready [G] for me? _ _ _ _
Are [C] you ready for the country?
Ain't [Bb] I a sight [G] to see? _ _ _ _
Are you [Gm] ready for the country?
[Bb] Are you ready [G] for me? _ _ _ _
Ready, [C] get ready for the country
Ain't [Bb] I a sight [G] to see?
Ain't I _ a sight to see?
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