Chords for (Waylon Jennings Tribute)... Travis Tritt @ Newton Theatre 2015

And that meant a lot to me because I was part of a group of new artists that came out all
at the same time, basically, same year.
We became, to be honest, the Class of 89.
Class of 89 was basically five people.
It was Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, Clint [B] Black, Vince Gill, and me.
_ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
And let me tell you something, out of that group of people that I just described for
you, I stuck out like a sore thumb.
Because they were all clean cut, you know. _
Me, around that same time, I had hair down about by a year.
I wore a lot of leather. _
_ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ And people thought that I was, [Em] because I was riding horses in Harley Davidson's for years
before I came to [E] Nashville, and I had all that other stuff going on, they thought that
I was trying [E] to be an outlaw.
_ That wasn't my intention.
I was just a product of all the Bible bars and [Em] fool halls that I had played in for all those years. _
[E] _ _ And even though I was doing country music just like the rest of them, they immediately
kind of separated me out from the bunch. _ _
And being an outlaw is tough, especially if you're just trying to get started.
But it would have been a whole lot tougher if it hadn't been for guys that came before me.
Guys like Johnny Cash, _ _ Willie Nelson, _ David _ _ _ Alpaco, Hank Latham Jr. _
_ And the guy that I met in the early 90s, a guy by the name of Waylon Jenkins. _
_ _ _ _ [Em] _ The time that Waylon and I met in the early 90s, until he passed away some 12 years later, _ _
we had the best friendship you could imagine.
He was almost like a second father to me. _ _
We talked on [B] the phone two, three, four times a week, every single week.
[A]
We did a lot of shows together.
I had a chance to _ literally sit [E] and learn at his feet.
_ _ And he taught me so much.
And I'll be honest with you, ladies and gentlemen, there's not a day that goes by [B] that I'll miss
three people that [E] really were [B] my three fathers.
_ One, of [A] course, being my natural father who passed away in 2009.
The other one was a guy by the name of Johnny Cash who [Em] also was like a father to me.
[E] _ _
_ _ And the other one was Waylon Jenkins.
And because he was such an influence on me and because I loved him [B] so much, _ [B] if you'll
just indulge me, [A] _ I'd like to do a little bit of a tribute.
[B] _ _
[E] _ _ [A] _ _ [E] _ _ [A] _ _
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[Em] Once a slender, [A] you were like a baseball.
[E] You were a bloody tail [A] in my hair.
[E] I told you, [A] if you could shout out a [E] call, it would feel the [A] same way again.
[E] But we were chained.
[A] _ _ [E] _ _ [A] _
[E] Somebody told [A] me that I came to [E] Nashville to start a fire [A] with him.
[E] Oh, they made it [A] here.
They lost me to you.
[E] Nothing can get [A] this way.
Oh, nothing can get this way.
_ [E] _ _ [A] _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ [Em] All I see is love, a [A] five-piece band.
[Em] Staring at the night sky [A] with you.
[B] Sing it one more [A] time just so I understand.
[B] Wishful, nightly sleep.
No [E] pain in the street. _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Cowboys [Em] ain't easy to turn [A] on. _ _ _
[B] Hey brother, I'll give you a song.
A [E] thousand more. _
Wait.
I'm stompin' purple on a tiny [A] lima.
You stop and feel my feel.
If you don't understand [B] that I'm a good old guy,
you're probably just [E] right away.
_ _ Mama, don't let your babies grow up to be [A] cowboys.
_ Don't let our big guns [B] on the ground.
Let off me, doctor, till [E] I get some. _ _ _
Mama, don't let your cowboys grow up to [A] be babies. _
Lock down and stay home.
[B] They're always alone.
Even when someone gets [E] hurt.
One more time with me.
Lock [B] down and stay [E] home.
They're [B] always alone.
Even when [E] someone gets hurt.
[A] _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ Just to know that I'm home.
I'm home [A] in my little home.
And be strong and [B] not so much over my watch as [Em] I've been before.
_ [E] Stay in my crib. _
[A] Flyin' over here.
_ _ Someday the [B] mountain might get a little heavier.
[Em] _ Make it a little [F#] easy on [B] a little high.
_ Yeah, that's just a little cold [E] in the warm little sky. _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [B] _ _ Make it a little easy on a little high.
_ Yeah, that's just a little cold in the warm little sky.
[E] Just to know that I'm home.
[A] I'm home in this little crib.
_ [E] If I [B] sit down to my little crib.
_ [Em] _ Then I'll lie down on my little crib. _