Chords for Guy Clark. The Guitar

[E] _ _ _ _ Well, we're going to do you one more new song.
This is a song Verlin and I wrote.
_ [N] We wrote it, I guess, about four years ago and forgot it immediately. _
I mean, forgot all about it.
Just, you [F#] know.
[Bm] Well, there's one.
And [G] [F#m] not [N]
too long ago, somebody sent us the lyrics. _ _ _ _
And _ wanted to know what the melody was,
so Verlin just sat down and wrote a melody right quick.
_ _ And all of a sudden we had a new song.
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[G] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [Em] _
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[F#] _ _ _ [F#m] [Bm] Well, I was passing by a pawn shop [G] in an older part of town.
_ [A] Something caught my [Em] eye and I [F#] stopped and turned around.
[Bm] Stepped inside and there I [G] spied in the middle of it all
[A] was a beat-up old guitar [C#] hanging on [F#] the wall.
_ [Bm] Well, what do you want for that piece of junk?
[G] I asked the old man.
[D] [A] He just smiled and took [Em] it down [F#] and he put it in my hand.
[Bm] He said, you tell me what it's worth.
[G] You're the one who wants it.
_ [A] Turn it up, play a song, and [F#] let's just see what haunts it.
[B] _ _ _ _ [Bm] _
_ [G] _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ So I hit a couple of chords in my old [G] country way of strumming.
[Bm] _
[A] Then my fingers turned to light and [A#] man, I never heard it coming.
[Bm] It was like I always knew it, [G] just don't know where I learned it.
[A] It wasn't nothing but the truth, [F#] so I just reared back and [C#m] burned.
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Well, I lost all [G] track of time.
There was nothing I couldn't [D] pick.
[A] Up and down the neck, man, I [F#] never missed a lick.
The [Bm] guitar almost played itself and [G] there was nothing I could do. _
[A] It was getting hard to [F#] tell just who was playing who. _ _
[Bm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Well, when I finally put it down, [G] I couldn't catch my breath. _
[A] My hands were shaking [F#] and I was scared to death. _
[Bm] And the old man finally got up and said, [G] where in the hell you been?
He said, [A] I've been waiting all these years for you [C#m] to stumble [F#] in. _
[Bm] Then he took down an old dusty case [G] and said, go on, pack it up. _
[A] You don't owe me nothing.
[F#] And then he said, good luck.
[C#m]
[B] There was something [Bm] spooky in his voice [G] and something strange on his face.
And [A] when he shut the lid, I saw [F#] my name was on the case.
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_ _ [N] _ Thank y'all. _ _ _