Chords for Chris Janson - Let Me Tell Ya the Story

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_ _ _ I was about 15, he's about [G] 8.
Let me tell you a story about this song. _
I grew _ up in southern Missouri in the boot hill right in the middle of [D] corn fields and
combines [B] and [F] soybeans.
_ [A] _ _ I grew up country and _ _ country's what I am. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ I never _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [F#] knew anything different than country music.
[C#m] It was always the most honest [Dm] thing I could relate to.
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[D] _ _ [A] _ _ [E] _ _ I was faced with [Dm] two options when I decided to take this [D] song as a career.
Music and moving to Nashville and everything.
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_ I had a full ride [G#] scholarship to college.
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I felt like school [A] wasn't my calling and I felt like music was.
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[D] _ _ _ I decided Nashville was [Bm] probably the closest place to do that for a full time living.
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I told [Am] my parents on Thursday I was going to leave and left on [A] a Friday morning.
The [B] rest is history.
_ _ [C#] When I walk into a bar [G] downtown, the first thing I was told by the [F#] old raggedy bartender
was get the hell out of here kid.
Missouri is not a place to be from.
A million kids come through [Bm] here a day and none of them make it.
You're just a lost cause pretty [B] much.
It pissed me off.
_ The initial thing I wanted to do was _ start writing songs and write a song about it.
[F#] I did and _ [B] that's how the song Shoot Off The Locks came about.
They _ say Missouri ain't a [F#m] place to be from.
Saw [C#] the Honky Tonk bars down the street so I [F#] figured I'd try that out.
[F] I [B] walked into Tootsie's later that night and the [Bm] doorman was nice enough to let me get up
and sing [C#] [C#] a song. _
I got the gig the next morning after that.
[G#] After that I had a seven day a week gig.
[E] I'd start at 10 o'clock in the morning and go to 3 o'clock the next morning.
[G#] Four shows a day, seven days a week at four hours a piece.
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_ _ _ _ [B] _ _ It's all part of [C#m] what I do and [A#m] who I am.
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I'm a very chilled out and [G] mellow quiet [B] person off stage.
When I'm on stage it's like _ I [E] go into _
[F#] a weird alter ego or something. _ _ _
Sometimes I feel like I'm channeling a Jerry Lee Lewis kind of spirit about it.
Just kind of [F] wild crazy.
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_ _ [A#] _ _ _ It's kind of the quintessential story of somebody who moves to Nashville and tries to make it.
Starts out in bars and struggles their way to the top.
I went down [F] and _ _ started playing [G] at Tootsie's Honky [Gm] Tonk.
I started making a living out of a tip [D#] jar which is not easy but [A#] that's the struggling part of my story.
You have _ to learn songs to appease the crowd.
Whatever you make out of that tip jar pays your bills.
[F] _ I take pride in that fact.
It was a great learning experience and a good way to get [A#] my start. _ _ _ _
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[G] _ _ The biggest [A#] thing that's always been for me is [C] making sure that they felt accommodated.
_ If they paid to see the show and got their money's worth and didn't pay the show,
at least they spent their [E] time wisely and had a good time.
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[A#] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ Everything is a huge _ blessing.
I've said it before and I'll say it until I'm dead [G] and not doing music [A] anymore.
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I'm just happy to do it and hope it [A] works.
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