Me And Willie Chords by Emmylou Harris

[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Me and Willie _ _
[G] [Dm] played [G] in a [C] country band _
[F] _ _ Seven [C] long years [G]
together played in those one-night stands _
_ [C] Used to say the blues [G] and the [F] bars were gonna [G] wear him out _
[F] _ Oh [G] Lord, the songs he wrote _ tear your heart right out _
_ [C] _ _ _ Traveled the [G] northern route from the [F] Great Lakes to [C] Montreal
_ [G]
[F] Hitting _ _ [G] all the [C] honky [G]
-tonks, bet we played them _ all
_ [C] _ Willie played to [G] ease his soul [F] and drank to [C] ease his [G] mind
[F] I never understood [G] how he [C] played so good [G] while drinking himself out blind
And [F] you wouldn't think [G] the man so [Am] weak could be so [F] _ strong
_ [Dm] _ David cried [A] while he drunk, _ [G] _ hush him with a song
And _ [C] _ I'd rather [F] be singing my heart [G] out in a [Am] dark and [G] deadened G [F]-bar
Hitting [C] those high [G] notes, Willie said, guitar or [C] not
_ I'd rather [F] be singing a blues [G] _ song, [Am] singing [G] sweet and [F] loud
_ _ _ Willie stand [C] right by my [G] side, playing [C] country slide _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Me and Willie, _
[G] [F] oh, we watched a lot of dreams [C] die young
_ [F] _ Plans we made [C] all quickly fell _ [G] from the moon one by one
_ [C] _ Willie never let it bother him, and [F] if he did, well, it [C] didn't show _
_ [F] Though he had a way [C] of letting go, [G] _ letting blue times go
And [F] you wouldn't think [G] the man so [Am] weak [G] could be [F] so strong
_ [Dm] Take the blues [Am] right out of you, [G] _ put them in a song _
[C] And I'd rather [F] be singing my heart [G] out in a [Am] dark and [G]
deadened G [F]-bar
Hitting [C] those high notes, [G] Willie said, guitar or not
_ [C] _ I'd rather [F] be singing a [G] blues song, [Am] singing [G] sweet and loud
[F] _ _ _ _ Willie stand [C] right by my [G] side, playing [C] country _ slide _ _ _
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_ [G] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ [G] _
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_ [C] _ _ I [G] _ _ _
_ [Am] _ _ [G] _ _ [F] _ _ _
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let Willie _ eat in a [F] bar on _ [C] Marriott
_ _ [F] Couldn't stand to watch [C] the man I love [G] drink himself to death
Now [C] I'm working not a while, and [F] I'm doing well [C] I guess
You [F] know the good life _ [C] looks so good [G] from behind the _ desk
And _ [C] I'd _ rather [F] be singing my [G] heart out in a [Am] dark and [G] deadened G [F]-bar
Hitting those [C] high notes, [G] Willie said, guitar or not
[C] I'd rather be [F] singing a [G] blues song, [Am] singing [G] sweet and [F] loud _ _ _
_ Willie stand [C] right by my [G] side, playing [C] country slide _ _
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