Whiskey Myers: Behind the Scenes of "Early Morning Shakes" Chords

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_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [E] I've been out praying for sunshine, all I see is [G] pouring rain.
I've been out praying for good times, and all I [A] get is more [E] pain.
There's a monkey on my back, it got some habits that I [G] can't quit.
[E] So I'm out standing in the sunrise with a [A] case of the early [E] morning shakes.
_ _ _ _ [G] Early morning shakes.
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_ _ _ _ [G] I think [Em] how we grew up and where we're from has a lot to do with our music.
Probably everything to [A] do with our music.
[G] I love Merle [E] Haggard, Waylon Jennings, Hank Williams Jr.
So all that kind of meshes to get [G] that, I [E] guess what we sound like now
had to be from the stuff we were listening to for years, kind of imprinted on our mind.
We're all from pretty much the same area.
[Abm] Me and John are from Palestine, [G] everybody else is from [E]
probably a 15 mile radius of Palestine.
So [G] we've all known each other for a long time.
I mean [A] every place is different, but you [F] take things, what you can, [Em] out of wherever you're at.
I think a lot of those things, [E] small town living and stuff, you can have that anywhere in [A] the world.
A lot of times, if you're more direct writing your music, it's something that is [Bm] true within you.
And I think a lot of people [E] have kind of similar ideas and similar past experiences.
[A] [Em] If you're more true, then you're able to [E] get further in depth into your topic.
And it just makes more sense than [G] just being kind of [E] skim of the surface.
I guess it just comes natural to us, you know, and that [A] seems to be [G] what we want to talk about all the time.
I guess being away so much, you start to miss where you came from.
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_ _ _ _ _ [Db] _ [E] You _ _ know, first album we were 18, 19 years old when we were writing those songs.
And now, you know, we're not completely grown up, but in the interest of songwriting and creativity levels.
And yeah, we've [Eb] grown and matured quite a bit, I think, in those days.
You got to write for yourself and just be honest in what you're feeling at that time.
If you think too much, you [A] know, what somebody would think about a certain song,
then [Gm] it kind of ruins the artistic side of [A] songwriting.
[Em] It's good just to create it and not have a [G] reason to do it, a motive [Em] behind the song.
Then you got a bunch of [C] really shitty [E] songs about fucking tractors or something.
You want me to be [Em] honest.
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_ _ [G] Yes, you wouldn't [D] recognize me.
[Em] _ My soul been torn [C] and twisted _ _ [G]
like an oak [D]-jumbled tree.
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Talk about [C] forever, _ [G] that was a million miles [D] ago.
_ [Em] So, I'll see [C] if I see you _ [D] back where the talk was [Em] found. _ _
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_ [A] I think when you're creating music, you're not necessarily trying to make somebody think a certain thing
or make somebody feel the way you feel.
[Bb] You just want them to feel something.
You don't want them to listen to it and [A] just go, whatever, and then change the station
or, you know, put a different CD in or something.
You just want them to feel something and relate to it in one way or another.
Their past experience will kind of [Ab] define how they interpret your music.
We did it one way and then [G] I've heard three or four people say they took this from it.
This is what they saw happening.
I thought it was pretty cool to just hear [Eb] different people's opinions on what you're doing
because you might not have even thought about that, but then you can see how they drew that conclusion.
The stuff I write about now is a lot different than the stuff I wrote about when I was 18 years old.
I [Bb] think that's just because you change as a person and your life changes
and the things you see change and your priorities and stuff.
You don't want to write those same type of songs.
You want to evolve as an artist.
_ Some of that stuff you really don't care to write about anymore.
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Why does a lady suffer?
I _ _ _ know.
[D] There's a place [G] where she gives me more than I can take.
_ [F] I've got to [G] get away when I'm low.
I can take it back on home. _
_ _ _ Back _ _ home.
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