Chords for Jerry Jeff Walker- "Stoney" (recorded live - 2012)

_ [A] Alright, I'm going to tell you a story about a [F#m] character.
Harry Stoneback.
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_ [A] _ The first one is Stoney. _ _
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_ _ Richard and [F#m] Virginia then, _ _
[Bm] _ they were just bumming around. _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ Suitcase [E] to suitcase, _
_ [B] started in [D] talking. _ _
[Bm] _ _ _ _ [A] Finding [F#m] out about the things we shared, [Bm] all the miles we'd been.
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Had an old gray pillowcase, _ stuffed full of books by the rift.
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Had this [F#m] old concertina, all beat [Bm] up and _ played like hell.
_ _ _ [D] _ She got [E] in started, _ _ [F#m] singing [E] us [D] gospel songs.
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_ [A] Probably drank all night for [F#m] nothing. _
Told [Bm] us [Em] stories to no one. _
_ _ _ Come [Bm] on boys, let's go back. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [B] Walked down the [F#m] highway, _ [A] _ _ [Bm] under a clear blue sky.
_ _ _ [A] I'm listening to [F#m] you, dearie, _ [Bm] [Bm] drinking warm red wine.
_ _ _ [D] By the time we drove [E] seven, _ _ [F#m] _ [E] finally girlie [D] turned on.
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_ [A] About everything we could think [C#m] of, he could think [Bm] of, while we walked [A] along. _
_ _ _ I've always [Bm] been fairly gullible.
_ _ _ While in [A] Grinch Village, we had this guy, _ Francis [Bm] Carlisle, who was an old magician.
He told us, who did magic [A] tricks for _ Martini.
_ _ _ [Bm] He was a devil bitch.
_ _ Everybody was always [F#m] trying to figure out how the trick worked.
I wanted to know how the trick [Bm] goes, I wanted to be fooled every time.
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Stoney had [F#m] a magic, [A] _ _ [Bm] she made it hard to forget.
_ _ _ _ [A] Like the night rolled down this old highway.
_ Was there an old Buick that nearly wrecked?
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Crazy [E] woman driving, _ [F#m] _ _
[B] crunked up and [D] carrying on.
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_ [A] She just wound a little tight in the Stoney counter, [Bm] _ singing the [A] gods a song.
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_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ While we split the road up by Norwood, _ _ [Bm] _ he just shook my hand.
_ _ _ [A] _ Said, I'll see you some place cowboy.
_ _ _ [Bm] No, he never did.
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[A] We [E] were then three then, [F#m] _ _ _
[E] walking [D] down the road.
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_ [A] _ _ Never [F#m] really caring, _ [Bm] that old _ highway [A] go.
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He said, I'll tell you about the time I married my second [C#] cousin in Vegas.
_ _ _ _ [Em] [Bm] He did, he did, tell it again.
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_ [Bm] _ _ _ _ [A] I found out a few [F#m] years later that old Stoney was a [Bm] bullshitter, no doubt about it.
_ _ _ _ [A] _ So just the way [F#m] he told things, _ _ [Bm] you never want to doubt him.
_ _ _ _ [D] _ He kept [E] you going _ [F#m] when [E] the road [D] got rough.
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_ [A] _ _ Brought you [F#m] through the lean times, _ [Bm] _ just by [A] making it up.
_ [F#m] _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ [D] You're younger, [G] when you make stuff up, they call you a [A] liar. _ _
_ You get older, you [Bm] do it well, they call [B] you an artiste.
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ Guaranteed.
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