Chords for Buddy Miller Showman's Life

[D] The hard _ _ _ _ thing about this boat _ is [Dm] there's so much good stuff going on.
I mean, there's so many of my [Gm] heroes and folks, my favorite music on here.
[F] And it's _ _ so great to get to see old friends I haven't seen and _ make new ones.
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[F] Jeff Steele's playing _ right now.
[C] _ [F] _
And we used to play together a long time ago. _ _
I haven't seen him play in a long time, [Cm] I feel like we should all [Fm] just throw him in.
_ _ _ _ [Cm] But he's playing tomorrow night, too.
[F] _ _ _ We used to play a lot of really [Bb] _ crummy [F] gigs together when I lived in California for a while.
[C] _ We were talking about [F] last night, one of them was this _ _ state [Bb] fair we [F] were booked in
_ to play on [Cm] a little stage _ right across from [C] Smokey Robinson.
[Gm] _ At the same time Smokey Robinson [F] was playing, we were [C] supposed to play [Bb] our songs
and it was just the most, it felt like the most wrong thing to do.
As a matter of fact, I [Gm] couldn't play when I was [F] hearing Smokey's voice. _ _
_ But we all really needed the money, _ so we played in between when we couldn't hear him.
[C] We were hoping [Dm] we could try to play quiet.
_ But [F] _ _ _ _
_ _ this is a song called Showman's Life. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [F] Showman's life _ _ is a [C] smoky bar _ _ _ and a fever [Dm] chase _ _ of a tiny [Bb] star. _ _
It's a hotel [Dm] _ room _ _ and a lonely [Bb] wife. _ _ _
From what I've [F] seen _ of _ a [C] showman's life, nobody told [F] me about this part. _
_ _ _ [Bb] _ They told me all about [F] the pretty girls _ and the wife _ _ _ _ [C] and the money _ _ and the good [F] _ times. _
_ _ [Bb] No _ engine up, _ all the way up there _ [F] on [Dm] that _ _ _
[C] smoky talker's [Bbm] heart.
[F] _ _
[Bb] _ _ Well, [F] _ _ I'm not [D] going, _ [C] but _ _ nobody told me [F] about this part. _
_ A _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ [F] poor old dream, _ _ _ and his [C] children knew. _ _
_ From a gray [Dm] white lake _ _ until the [Bb] dream comes true. _
_ Then a phony [Dm] smile _ in a [Bb] colored light. _ _
Well, that's all [F] it is.
From _ what I've seen of a _ [C] showman's life, _ nobody told me [F] about this part.
_ _ _ _ [Bb] _ They told me all [F] about the pretty _ girls _ _ and the wife _ _ _ _ [C] and the _ money _ _ and the [F] good _ _ _ times.
_ [Bb] No _ engine up, _ all the _ way up there _ [Dm] on that _ smoky [F] _ _ _ _ [Bb] talker's [F] heart.
[Gm] _ _ _ [F] Well, _ _ I'm not going, [C] but _ _ nobody told me [F] about this part.
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_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ Nobody [F] told me about this _ part.
_ _ _ [Bb] _ They told me _ all [F] about the pretty _ girls _ and the wife _ _ _ _ [C] and the money _ _ and the [F] good _ _ times.
_ _ _ [Bb] _ No engine up, _ all the way up there _ _ on [Dm] that smoky [C] _
_ _ _ [Bb] talker's [Dm] heart. _
_ _ _ [F] Well, _ I'm not going, _ [C] but _ nobody told me [F] about this part.
They _ [Bb] told me _ _ _ all _ [F] _ _ _ _ about the pretty girls and the wife and the money and [C] _ the good times.
Nobody told [F] me about _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ this _ _ part.
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _