Chords for Toby Keith Tribute to Merle Haggard At ACC Awards 2016

[D] the [A] upcoming film Free State of [E] Jones, Academy [F#m] Award winning [D] actor Matthew [A] McConaughey.
_ _ [E] _ _ [A] _
_ [D] _ _ [N] _ Thank you. _
_ Good evening. _ _ _
Thank you.
_ _ _ All right. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ So this year, the passing of some of our greatest
musical legends has reminded us just [Fm] how much [A] music means in our [N] lives.
Each loss has hit us
hard like a death in the family.
On April 6th, on his 79th birthday, country music lost a towering
figure, the late and great Merle Haggard. _ _ _ _
_ _ As a singer, _ songwriter and band leader, Merle forever
changed the course of country music.
Along with Buck Owens, Merle and his consistently excellent
band, The Strangers, gave us the Bakersfield sound with a strong Telecaster twang and a plain
spoken eloquence all its own.
_ You see, Merle's an outlaw before the outlaws and the hero to all
countries finest. _
None more than our final performer of the evening.
We are honored tonight
to be joined by Merle's wife, Teresa, and other members of the Haggard family, including his
youngest son, Ben, _ _ _ _ _ who you're about to also hear play.
Here to salute his friend, Merle Haggard,
joined by the legendary Strangers.
Let's give it up for Toby Keith.
[D] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ First thing I [G] remember knowing
[D] was a lonesome [G] whistle blowing in a [D] young stream of growing [A] up to ride _ [D] on a freight train [Gm] leaving town
[D] not knowing [G] where I'm bound [D] could change [A] my mind but mama [D] tried _ I turned 21 in prison
doing [G] a [D] life that broke.
[Bm] Mama _ [A] tried, [Bm] [Cm] mama [A] tried, [D] mama tried to raise me better [G] but her pleading [D] I
and these only [A] mean a blame just [D] mama tried. _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Today I _ [C] started loving you [G] _ again _ _ _
_ now I'm right back [C] where I really _ [G] always been _ I _ _ got old just not [C] enough _ _ _ [G] heartache, man
then today I [D] started loving [G] you
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ hey _ _ _ _ [A] y _ _ 'all don't care about what I [E] think _ _ I think I'll just [A] stay here and drink
_ _ hey listen close [D] and you can hear
_ that loud jukebox [A] playing in my head _ _ ain't no woman gonna [E] change the way I think
guess what I think I'll just [A] stay here and drink.
Here come them strangers,
[D] desperate [A] _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ [A] _ _
job just getting out of line, getting in the way, _ not many working plans, nothing here all my
life but I keep on [D] working, _ _ longest _ [A] 1950 years.
_ _ _ _ [E] I drank my beer in the tavern, [D] sang a little bit of these working [A] men blues
_ _ _ _ _ said hey hey working man, working man [D] like me I [A] ain't never been on welfare and that's one place I won't be
I'll be [D] working _ come on
_ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ I'll [E] take a little bit of that evening, [D] [A] have a little bit of these working man blues
it's _ songs for the working man. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ [A] _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Silver _ _ wings _ shining in the sunlight, _ _ _ [F#m] rolling in town
_ _ there's somewhere [B] in flight _ they're _ taking [E] you _ _ away
_ leaving me lonely, _ _ _ silver [F#m] _ wings _ [B] slowly fading [E] out the side
_ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ [E] _ all right let's sing along _ _ _ hey we don't smoke marijuana in the skuggy
_ we _ _ don't take our trips on [B] LSD _ _ we _ _ don't burn our draft cards down on main street
_ _ we like living right [E] being free everybody
_ I'm proud to be an Opie from _ Muskogee, _ _ place where English squares can have [B] it all
_ _ yeah we still wave on glory down in the courthouse in Black Goblin
no I like this
_ _ [E] down _
_ _ _ [A#] [B] in Muskogee, Oklahoma he [E] would say
oh yeah _ _ _ all _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _
right all right all right everybody let's give it up for Toby