Chords for Johnny Lee "Cherokee Fiddle"

_ _ _ _ _ _ And thank goodness our manager at the time was cheap to buy him a hotel room.
_ He spent the night in the extra bedroom in my house at night [Abm] and he was sitting around
playing guitars all night [Gb] long.
_ He said, if you ever get a chance to make [D] any big records, he said, you might want to
do this song.
_ _ [Gm] _ _ _ And I fell in love with the tune and I changed it up.
_ [D] _ _
_ _ [Eb] I recorded it to take everybody that's been there.
[N] _ _ _ _ It's like one of our biggest records.
_ [D] _ _ _ Is it on?
_ _ _ _ A true story [Ab] about the old Cherokee [D] veteran. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ A _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [D] train, _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ crawls in [Bm] a big boat.
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [D] Upside down, _ _ lost in the [G] bottomless pit.
_ _ _ If [A] you want to be high, you got to _ [D] find some.
_ _ _ _ You [Bm] can smell _ _ [D] the smoke and the cinder.
_ _ _ _ _ [Bm] You can't get there, _ [Em] you're missing. _
_ _ [A] The great [D] Cherokee veteran, _ _ _ _ playing [G] on the whiskey.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
Never heard of him.
_ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ He was always _ there.
_ _ _ He'd be up [G] on the _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [Bm] _ ice.
_ _ [Bb] _ _ And [D] he'd go _ by.
_ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ And _ [D] he'd wait [A] until the train was running out of weather.
[D] _ _
_ _ _ _ You can _ smell _ _ the smoke and the cinder.
_ _ _ _ Sniff back his _ _ [Bm] hair.
He'd love [Em] his name.
_ [A] The great [D] Cherokee veteran, _ playing _ [G] on the whiskey.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
Never heard of him.
_ _ [D] _
There we go, Cherokee. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ Well, [A] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
well, _ well.
[G] Well, _ well, [D] well.
_ _ _ Well, well, _ _ well.
[G] Well, well, well.
[D] And now the Indians, _ _ _ dressed in the [G] black cowboys.
_ _ _ _ [A] And the cowboys, [Bb] and the Cherokee [Bm] songs.
_ _ [Bb] _ _ And [D] the music, _ _ _ sung [G] by lawyers.
Never opposed to lawyers.
_ [A] Opposed to them in the middle of the states.
[D] Never gone.
Most of them.
_ One more day, [Bm] _ _ they [D] never come to miss him.
_ _ She [Bm] looks to me _ like [Em] the ancient _ man.
[A] _ Was there [D] a king at all?
_ He's [G] gone. _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] I see the colors of my nails on the wall.
[D] _ _
_ _ _ _ You can _ [Bm] _
_ smell [D] the smoke and the cinder.
_ _ _ Sniff [Bm] back his hair.
_ _ He'd love [Em] _
his name.
_ [A] The great [D] Cherokee veteran, _ _ playing [G] on the whiskey.
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
Never [Bb] heard of him.
_ _ [Bm] _ _
_ _ _ [Bb] There _ [D] we _ _ [A] _ _ go, [D] _
Cherokee.
_ _ Well, well, [Bm] well.
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ Well, [D] well, well.
Well, [A] well, _ _ [D] _ _
well. _ _ _ _ _ _
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