Chords for Waylon's House

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_ _ _ _ Down to the sea you become _ such a habit _ _ [A] America, _ _ _ _ America
If [D] anyone has earned the right to be known as a rebel with a [Ebm] cause, it's Waylon Jennings.
Now he soared to some pretty incredible heights as one of America's leading country and western [Gb] singers and songwriters.
But along that journey, he plunged [Cm] to some despairing [Fm] lows.
On the day the music [C] died, Waylon gave up his seat aboard Rock and Roll's tragic air [Ab] crash that killed Buddy Holly.
He [Eb] was just a backup [Abm] musician in Buddy's group, The Crickets, and turned over his ticket to the Big Bopper.
He claims that his career was [Gb] marred by a 20-year drug dependency that left him absolutely penniless and with three broken marriages.
But he's always fought like a tiger for [F] his musical stardom.
_ Waylon says that he gives all the credit [C] for his turnabout [Bb] to wife number four, country singer Jessie Coulter.
[F] During the bad times, she made the difference between her man going down and [C] going out.
She coped with it and _ _ in the end helped me get off of drugs.
But [B] she never gave up faith in me or never gave up hope that I would get [Gb] off of them.
Someday she always believed that I'd get off of them, and I did finally.
It seems like the last few years have just been a _ rebirth and [D] reawakening of everything in a forest.
And _ I just kind of feel like we're a couple of kids [Bb] _ in the world, [G] our playground in a way, [F] you know.
He's won more awards, gold and platinum [C] albums than he can remember, [Bb] and all for singing his songs straight from the heart.
[F] But you don't [C]
understand, they keep a show in my hands, and [F] my faith don't reveal.
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Even with [C] record [Bb] sales of over 15 million, [F] Waylon's proudest possession is a [C] Grammy for this hit [A] song.
_ _ _ _ [Bm] I [A] was a dam builder, _ _ [G] across the river deep [Bm] and wide.
_ _ Home is [A]
Nashville, near Chris [D] Christopherson and [A] Johnny Cash, his [C] best buddies.
Waylon [G] lives in a thoroughly modern secluded estate with Jessie and their [Cm] young son, Shooter, for whom the tour bus is named.
[G] The Jennings home is elegant, yet almost understated by [Am] rhinestone and glitz standards.
Waylon says comfort comes first, and his prized gold Cadillac is one of his rare [D] gestures for conspicuous consumption.
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_ [Bm] Waylon's a very casual person.
[F] We're very [G] casual in our [D] lifestyle.
_ Waylon [G] loves [Bm] his den, and I love being with [F] him as much as I can in the house, [Gm] so we kind of [C] center to the den a lot.
The kitchen is possibly the [G] most favorite place in the house, _ because [Bb] we're definitely food oriented around here. _
_ [Gm] And this room is [Dm] just a lovely room to come into when I just want to feel, [Gm] I don't know, real [A] private.
I come in here, _ [Gm] sit, or you watch the snow fall, and the light hits it perfectly out here.
_ I think more than anything my house is comfortable.
I have lovely things, but I'm not one of these people _ who cares to [C] remind anybody to take care [D] of it.
I grew up a dreamin' of being _ a cowboy, [G] _
lovin' the cowboys.
[D] His is a lifetime fascination with the [A] Old West.
I think [D] everybody, you know, secretly wants to be a cowboy, or wanted to be a [E] cowboy from time in their life.
That's the true American hero, [B] you know.
I went down [D] to Texas and [A] did a [D] _ _ documentary about cowboys. _
_ And I spent two weeks on a _ _ _ roundup, _ _ and I found out what I wasn't.
_ I'm not a cowboy.
[Em] I'm a cowboy singer.
[A] _ So, where'd he get those cowboy ways, Jessie?
_ [D] He's from Texas, _ and I don't know, Texans [E] just kind of feel like the way they say it is it.
Anybody else is off a little, you know.
_ _ So, in fact, I wrote a song once called, Just Because I'm Not From Texas Doesn't Mean I'm From Overseas,
because they [Ebm] basically treat you like you're a foreigner.
But [Gm] Jessie's no stranger to the gentle outlaw who survived his last [C] bad roundup.
You've got to be able to laugh at [Ebm] yourself and laugh at each other, you know.
And _ I'm pretty funny.
Jessie's had a lot of good [Bb] laughs.
_ _ [Eb] You'd better [C] believe Waylon gets a few chuckles [F] when Jessie throws a party
and [Bb] miraculously turns their home into an art [C] gallery featuring his [Bb] favorite cowboy art
and for a fashion show with [Eb] furs and dresses by her favorite [F] designer. _ _
[Bb] _ The guest list included the [Gm] Grand Ole [D] Opry's finest friends,
Roseanne [Bb] Cash, Chet [D] Atkins, [Gm] Crystal Gale, [F] and Emmy Lou Harris.
[C] [Gm] I just moved to Nashville a couple of years ago, and so [B] now I see them more.
_ And we sort of live down on the same [G] road.
_ Everybody in [E] Nashville is close to everybody [A] else.
And everyone in Nashville feels a special [D] bond with their friend,
the country superstar who turned his life around and in doing so discovered peace of mind. _ _
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[A] Waylon Jennings, still an outlaw, but