Chords for Hank Williams Jr. - You Think You Know Country?
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In August 1975, Hank Williams Jr.
fell off a mountain in Montana, but that may not be
the closest he's come to death.
Did you know what, or who, almost killed him?
[B] [G#] [A] Hank Jr.
agrees that he did die on [B] that mountain, or at least [E] the part of him that was troubled
and unsure of his future [A] died.
Born was [B] the outlaw we call [D#] Bocephus.
So here's the [A] Cribnotes version of Hank's childhood.
Born, [B] famous daddy [E] nicknames him after a ventriloquist dummy.
[A] Famous daddy dies when he's three.
[B] A few years pass.
[E] Kind of famous mommy [A] starts grooming him to be the child version of famous [B] daddy.
Fans love it.
[E] Their pank accounts love it.
Albums [A] are sold.
Movies are made.
By the time [B] he's a teenager, he's touring [G#] with Johnny Cash and [A] Jerry Lee Lewis singing dad's hits.
A few of [B] daddy's friends start [E] offering him drinks when he's way too young to be drinking.
[C#] Young man Hank starts to want more, so he [A] begins to cleave himself from mom and dad's
music [C#] in subtle and not so subtle ways.
He thinks [B] about quitting because dad's fans are being unreasonable [C#m] jerks.
Then in the mid 70's he's depressed, bitter, and resentful so he tries to kill [G#] himself.
Yeah, People reports that six months [B] before he fell 500 feet off [A] Ajax Peak, he swallowed
a bunch [B] of Darva, a pain [D#] medication.
Fortunately [A] his manager found him and got him to the hospital.
[B] Phew.
[C#] Randall Hank Williams was born to Hank [A] Williams Sr.
and singer Audrey [Bm] Shepard.
He was trained to be [C#m] like his father and almost [A] ended up like him save a fast acting manager
[B] and then a rancher.
Dick Willy found him missing a nose, an eye, [A] his jaw, and part of his [B] skull and rushed
for help on [C#m] that Montana mountainside.
[A] Hank literally landed face first on a boulder, [Bm] his brain was playing [E] peekaboo.
Six hours later he finally got to the [A] hospital and doctors began the [F#] two year process of
[G#] piecing him back together like Humpty [A] Dumpty.
Then an odd thing happened.
He was a [B] changed man.
Every [E] album he released from 1979 to about [A] 1992 went [F#] gold or platinum.
He [G#] picked up two Entertainer of the [A] Year awards, revolutionized the country music [B] video, and
became the most [E] famous man in the country.
The momentum actually [C#m] began with 1975's Hank Williams Jr.
and Friends, but albums like
Family Tradition and The Pressure is On catapulted him to stardom.
In [F#] the span of a few years his live fee [C#m] tripled to a startling [F#] $7,500.
[E] Hey this is the late 70s.
That'll pretty much buy you Rhode Island in 2015 right?
It's difficult [Bm] to quantify his success [G#] because numbers weren't tracked [A] like they are today,
but Hank was certainly as [B] big as Kenny Chesney was [E] during his peak.
And he cranked out new music like Hershey cranks out squirts.
[C#m] One, maybe two [A] albums a year for a decade, plus [C#m] hits albums and the occasional side [C#] project.
Did you know one of Hank's [B] first successes was on the big screen?
He starred in the poorly reviewed A [C#m] Time to Sing with Shelley [A] Favre.
So now you know Hank Williams [C#] Jr.
But there's so much more to know.
[C] Ok rapid fire, Hank once [D] said I used to use women [Am] like bathrooms.
[Am] Gross.
He agrees with the guy who said country music ain't nothing but white people's blues.
He [Em] has a cabin in Montana that overlooks the mountain he nearly died on.
He's an avid hunter, like Ted Nugent looks like Elmer Fudd avid.
He wears the glasses and hat to cover scars from the fall, but [E] keeps a beard because he likes [A#] beards.
Time out for a side note, Hank has [D#] had more facial hairdos [F] than Faith Hill has makeovers.
Clean [Cm] shaven, chops, the chin [A#] strap, the Vincent Price, the [Cm] boogie nights, the Obama hater.
[C#] Hehe, just [B] a little joke there, we're not getting political.
[A#] You can, by giving a [G#] big thumbs up if you agree with Hank's thoughts on [A#] politics.
Ok time in.
[B] One last Hank [G#] fact, he has an alter ego.
[A] When Hank is playing blues music he calls [B] himself Thunderhead Hawkins.
He [F#] introduced this character on his [G#] 2002 album, [C#m] Almeria Club, a project [A] filled with racy blues songs.
Be sure to subscribe to our YouTube [C#m] channel and check us out on [B] Twitter and Facebook.
And be sure to check back
fell off a mountain in Montana, but that may not be
the closest he's come to death.
Did you know what, or who, almost killed him?
[B] [G#] [A] Hank Jr.
agrees that he did die on [B] that mountain, or at least [E] the part of him that was troubled
and unsure of his future [A] died.
Born was [B] the outlaw we call [D#] Bocephus.
So here's the [A] Cribnotes version of Hank's childhood.
Born, [B] famous daddy [E] nicknames him after a ventriloquist dummy.
[A] Famous daddy dies when he's three.
[B] A few years pass.
[E] Kind of famous mommy [A] starts grooming him to be the child version of famous [B] daddy.
Fans love it.
[E] Their pank accounts love it.
Albums [A] are sold.
Movies are made.
By the time [B] he's a teenager, he's touring [G#] with Johnny Cash and [A] Jerry Lee Lewis singing dad's hits.
A few of [B] daddy's friends start [E] offering him drinks when he's way too young to be drinking.
[C#] Young man Hank starts to want more, so he [A] begins to cleave himself from mom and dad's
music [C#] in subtle and not so subtle ways.
He thinks [B] about quitting because dad's fans are being unreasonable [C#m] jerks.
Then in the mid 70's he's depressed, bitter, and resentful so he tries to kill [G#] himself.
Yeah, People reports that six months [B] before he fell 500 feet off [A] Ajax Peak, he swallowed
a bunch [B] of Darva, a pain [D#] medication.
Fortunately [A] his manager found him and got him to the hospital.
[B] Phew.
[C#] Randall Hank Williams was born to Hank [A] Williams Sr.
and singer Audrey [Bm] Shepard.
He was trained to be [C#m] like his father and almost [A] ended up like him save a fast acting manager
[B] and then a rancher.
Dick Willy found him missing a nose, an eye, [A] his jaw, and part of his [B] skull and rushed
for help on [C#m] that Montana mountainside.
[A] Hank literally landed face first on a boulder, [Bm] his brain was playing [E] peekaboo.
Six hours later he finally got to the [A] hospital and doctors began the [F#] two year process of
[G#] piecing him back together like Humpty [A] Dumpty.
Then an odd thing happened.
He was a [B] changed man.
Every [E] album he released from 1979 to about [A] 1992 went [F#] gold or platinum.
He [G#] picked up two Entertainer of the [A] Year awards, revolutionized the country music [B] video, and
became the most [E] famous man in the country.
The momentum actually [C#m] began with 1975's Hank Williams Jr.
and Friends, but albums like
Family Tradition and The Pressure is On catapulted him to stardom.
In [F#] the span of a few years his live fee [C#m] tripled to a startling [F#] $7,500.
[E] Hey this is the late 70s.
That'll pretty much buy you Rhode Island in 2015 right?
It's difficult [Bm] to quantify his success [G#] because numbers weren't tracked [A] like they are today,
but Hank was certainly as [B] big as Kenny Chesney was [E] during his peak.
And he cranked out new music like Hershey cranks out squirts.
[C#m] One, maybe two [A] albums a year for a decade, plus [C#m] hits albums and the occasional side [C#] project.
Did you know one of Hank's [B] first successes was on the big screen?
He starred in the poorly reviewed A [C#m] Time to Sing with Shelley [A] Favre.
So now you know Hank Williams [C#] Jr.
But there's so much more to know.
[C] Ok rapid fire, Hank once [D] said I used to use women [Am] like bathrooms.
[Am] Gross.
He agrees with the guy who said country music ain't nothing but white people's blues.
He [Em] has a cabin in Montana that overlooks the mountain he nearly died on.
He's an avid hunter, like Ted Nugent looks like Elmer Fudd avid.
He wears the glasses and hat to cover scars from the fall, but [E] keeps a beard because he likes [A#] beards.
Time out for a side note, Hank has [D#] had more facial hairdos [F] than Faith Hill has makeovers.
Clean [Cm] shaven, chops, the chin [A#] strap, the Vincent Price, the [Cm] boogie nights, the Obama hater.
[C#] Hehe, just [B] a little joke there, we're not getting political.
[A#] You can, by giving a [G#] big thumbs up if you agree with Hank's thoughts on [A#] politics.
Ok time in.
[B] One last Hank [G#] fact, he has an alter ego.
[A] When Hank is playing blues music he calls [B] himself Thunderhead Hawkins.
He [F#] introduced this character on his [G#] 2002 album, [C#m] Almeria Club, a project [A] filled with racy blues songs.
Be sure to subscribe to our YouTube [C#m] channel and check us out on [B] Twitter and Facebook.
And be sure to check back
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In August 1975, Hank Williams Jr.
fell off a mountain in Montana, but that may not be
the closest he's come to death.
Did you know what, or who, almost killed him?
_ [B] _ _ [G#] _ _ [A] Hank Jr.
agrees that he did die on [B] that mountain, or at least [E] the part of him that was troubled
and unsure of his future [A] died.
Born was [B] the outlaw we call [D#] Bocephus.
So here's the [A] Cribnotes version of Hank's childhood.
Born, [B] famous daddy [E] nicknames him after a ventriloquist dummy.
[A] Famous daddy dies when he's three.
[B] A few years pass.
[E] Kind of famous mommy [A] starts grooming him to be the child version of famous [B] daddy.
Fans love it.
[E] Their pank accounts love it.
Albums [A] are sold.
Movies are made.
By the time [B] he's a teenager, he's touring [G#] with Johnny Cash and [A] Jerry Lee Lewis singing dad's hits.
A few of [B] daddy's friends start [E] offering him drinks when he's way too young to be drinking.
[C#] Young man Hank starts to want more, so he [A] begins to cleave himself from mom and dad's
music [C#] in subtle and not so subtle ways.
He thinks [B] about quitting because dad's fans are being unreasonable [C#m] jerks.
Then in the mid 70's he's depressed, bitter, and resentful so he tries to kill [G#] himself.
Yeah, People reports that six months [B] before he fell 500 feet off [A] Ajax Peak, he swallowed
a bunch [B] of Darva, a pain [D#] medication.
Fortunately [A] his manager found him and got him to the hospital.
[B] Phew.
[C#] Randall Hank Williams was born to Hank [A] Williams Sr.
and singer Audrey [Bm] Shepard.
He was trained to be [C#m] like his father and almost [A] ended up like him save a fast acting manager
[B] and then a rancher.
Dick Willy found him missing a nose, an eye, [A] his jaw, and part of his [B] skull and rushed
for help on [C#m] that Montana mountainside.
[A] Hank literally landed face first on a boulder, [Bm] his brain was playing [E] peekaboo.
Six hours later he finally got to the [A] hospital and doctors began the [F#] two year process of
[G#] piecing him back together like Humpty [A] Dumpty.
Then an odd thing happened.
He was a [B] changed man.
Every [E] album he released from 1979 to about [A] 1992 went [F#] gold or platinum.
He [G#] picked up two Entertainer of the [A] Year awards, revolutionized the country music [B] video, and
became the most [E] famous man in the country.
The momentum actually [C#m] began with 1975's Hank Williams Jr.
and Friends, but albums like
Family Tradition and The Pressure is On catapulted him to stardom.
In [F#] the span of a few years his live fee [C#m] tripled to a startling [F#] $7,500.
[E] _ Hey this is the late 70s.
That'll pretty much buy you Rhode Island in 2015 right?
It's difficult [Bm] to quantify his success [G#] because numbers weren't tracked [A] like they are today,
but Hank was certainly as [B] big as Kenny Chesney was [E] during his peak.
And he cranked out new music like Hershey cranks out squirts.
[C#m] One, maybe two [A] albums a year for a decade, plus [C#m] hits albums and the occasional side [C#] project.
Did you know one of Hank's [B] first successes was on the big screen?
He starred in the poorly reviewed A [C#m] Time to Sing with Shelley [A] Favre.
So now you know Hank Williams [C#] Jr.
But there's so much more to know.
[C] Ok rapid fire, Hank once [D] said I used to use women [Am] like bathrooms.
[Am] Gross.
He agrees with the guy who said country music ain't nothing but white people's blues.
He [Em] has a cabin in Montana that overlooks the mountain he nearly died on.
He's an avid hunter, like Ted Nugent looks like Elmer Fudd avid.
He wears the glasses and hat to cover scars from the fall, but [E] keeps a beard because he likes [A#] beards.
Time out for a side note, Hank has [D#] had more facial hairdos [F] than Faith Hill has makeovers.
Clean [Cm] shaven, chops, the chin [A#] strap, the Vincent Price, the [Cm] boogie nights, the Obama hater.
[C#] Hehe, just [B] a little joke there, we're not getting political.
[A#] You can, by giving a [G#] big thumbs up if you agree with Hank's thoughts on [A#] politics.
Ok time in.
[B] One last Hank [G#] fact, he has an alter ego.
[A] When Hank is playing blues music he calls [B] himself Thunderhead Hawkins.
He [F#] introduced this character on his [G#] 2002 album, [C#m] Almeria Club, a project [A] filled with racy blues songs.
Be sure to subscribe to our YouTube [C#m] channel and check us out on [B] Twitter and Facebook.
And be sure to check back
fell off a mountain in Montana, but that may not be
the closest he's come to death.
Did you know what, or who, almost killed him?
_ [B] _ _ [G#] _ _ [A] Hank Jr.
agrees that he did die on [B] that mountain, or at least [E] the part of him that was troubled
and unsure of his future [A] died.
Born was [B] the outlaw we call [D#] Bocephus.
So here's the [A] Cribnotes version of Hank's childhood.
Born, [B] famous daddy [E] nicknames him after a ventriloquist dummy.
[A] Famous daddy dies when he's three.
[B] A few years pass.
[E] Kind of famous mommy [A] starts grooming him to be the child version of famous [B] daddy.
Fans love it.
[E] Their pank accounts love it.
Albums [A] are sold.
Movies are made.
By the time [B] he's a teenager, he's touring [G#] with Johnny Cash and [A] Jerry Lee Lewis singing dad's hits.
A few of [B] daddy's friends start [E] offering him drinks when he's way too young to be drinking.
[C#] Young man Hank starts to want more, so he [A] begins to cleave himself from mom and dad's
music [C#] in subtle and not so subtle ways.
He thinks [B] about quitting because dad's fans are being unreasonable [C#m] jerks.
Then in the mid 70's he's depressed, bitter, and resentful so he tries to kill [G#] himself.
Yeah, People reports that six months [B] before he fell 500 feet off [A] Ajax Peak, he swallowed
a bunch [B] of Darva, a pain [D#] medication.
Fortunately [A] his manager found him and got him to the hospital.
[B] Phew.
[C#] Randall Hank Williams was born to Hank [A] Williams Sr.
and singer Audrey [Bm] Shepard.
He was trained to be [C#m] like his father and almost [A] ended up like him save a fast acting manager
[B] and then a rancher.
Dick Willy found him missing a nose, an eye, [A] his jaw, and part of his [B] skull and rushed
for help on [C#m] that Montana mountainside.
[A] Hank literally landed face first on a boulder, [Bm] his brain was playing [E] peekaboo.
Six hours later he finally got to the [A] hospital and doctors began the [F#] two year process of
[G#] piecing him back together like Humpty [A] Dumpty.
Then an odd thing happened.
He was a [B] changed man.
Every [E] album he released from 1979 to about [A] 1992 went [F#] gold or platinum.
He [G#] picked up two Entertainer of the [A] Year awards, revolutionized the country music [B] video, and
became the most [E] famous man in the country.
The momentum actually [C#m] began with 1975's Hank Williams Jr.
and Friends, but albums like
Family Tradition and The Pressure is On catapulted him to stardom.
In [F#] the span of a few years his live fee [C#m] tripled to a startling [F#] $7,500.
[E] _ Hey this is the late 70s.
That'll pretty much buy you Rhode Island in 2015 right?
It's difficult [Bm] to quantify his success [G#] because numbers weren't tracked [A] like they are today,
but Hank was certainly as [B] big as Kenny Chesney was [E] during his peak.
And he cranked out new music like Hershey cranks out squirts.
[C#m] One, maybe two [A] albums a year for a decade, plus [C#m] hits albums and the occasional side [C#] project.
Did you know one of Hank's [B] first successes was on the big screen?
He starred in the poorly reviewed A [C#m] Time to Sing with Shelley [A] Favre.
So now you know Hank Williams [C#] Jr.
But there's so much more to know.
[C] Ok rapid fire, Hank once [D] said I used to use women [Am] like bathrooms.
[Am] Gross.
He agrees with the guy who said country music ain't nothing but white people's blues.
He [Em] has a cabin in Montana that overlooks the mountain he nearly died on.
He's an avid hunter, like Ted Nugent looks like Elmer Fudd avid.
He wears the glasses and hat to cover scars from the fall, but [E] keeps a beard because he likes [A#] beards.
Time out for a side note, Hank has [D#] had more facial hairdos [F] than Faith Hill has makeovers.
Clean [Cm] shaven, chops, the chin [A#] strap, the Vincent Price, the [Cm] boogie nights, the Obama hater.
[C#] Hehe, just [B] a little joke there, we're not getting political.
[A#] You can, by giving a [G#] big thumbs up if you agree with Hank's thoughts on [A#] politics.
Ok time in.
[B] One last Hank [G#] fact, he has an alter ego.
[A] When Hank is playing blues music he calls [B] himself Thunderhead Hawkins.
He [F#] introduced this character on his [G#] 2002 album, [C#m] Almeria Club, a project [A] filled with racy blues songs.
Be sure to subscribe to our YouTube [C#m] channel and check us out on [B] Twitter and Facebook.
And be sure to check back