Chords for Kris Kristofferson
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Eb
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Ab
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Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[Eb] Type 2's all close-ups.
He's got his sense of [B] humor back.
Yeah.
First thing that comes to your mind, just one word on the following.
Whalen.
France.
Willie.
[N] Golf.
Johnny.
Humor.
[Gbm]
[N] Interesting choices.
France for Whalen, huh?
Whalen hates France.
Oh.
Hey, he hates a lot of things.
And I love France.
He came back and told me how much he hated going to the Southeast Asia thing with the high women.
He couldn't stand it.
Yeah, yeah.
He couldn't wait to get home.
He kissed the ground when he got home.
Yeah, yeah.
Do you even remember when your first days were in Nashville when you were there doing the broom on 16th Avenue?
I remember [D] those days better than I remember anything since.
That was some of the best time of my life.
You know, there's some urban legend about you.
Did you really land a helicopter on Johnny's lawn?
Yes, I did.
You really did that, didn't you?
That's kind of turned into an urban legend.
You don't [Eb] know if it's true or not.
Yeah, well, it's true.
I had known John for about a year and a half before that because I had been emptying his ashtrays over at Columbia for a long time and pitching him every song I ever wrote.
But I was trying to make an impression.
So you did.
I landed on an old [Em] National Guard helicopter.
[N] Yeah, that's what we heard.
That's been a long time.
Can you believe that there's a country music artist that's actually going to be 95 million records sold by New Year's Day at Guard Brooks?
It's come a long way since the days of 16th Avenue.
Since those days.
Well, we, those of the people who were like my peers in those days and who were trying, who were worshipping at the idol of John and Willie Nelson and Waylon were hoping that we'd spread the respect of country music.
Guys like Mickey Newberry, you know, and people like that.
And it happened.
We never thought it'd [Gb] happen like that.
That's amazing.
[F] Even Jackie Chan, I interviewed him and he sang [E] me, I said, what's your favorite country song?
He sang, Always [N] on my Mind.
He went through the whole thing.
To hear Jackie Chan do that was really kind of odd.
This guy here, I don't sense.
That's one of the first signs of the apocalypse.
I think it is.
[Ebm] I wrote it down.
This guy you play in this movie, I don't think he's that far away from you, is he?
Was that a big stretch?
No, it was probably the closest, closest to anybody that I.
[N] Even your speech patterns and probably your salty language occasionally.
Well, what's funny is it's the way I [Eb] talk in my house and it was the way James Jones talked in his.
And so when I would come up with lines of my own, James Iverson, it was just [Ab] like James Jones and his daughter told me the same thing.
What do you consider yourself these days?
Writer, singer, actor, janitor, [B] military veteran?
[Ab] I'd be a writer probably on my passport until I die.
And father comes in pretty heavy these days because I've got eight kids, five young ones, and I spend more time at home than I used to.
Do you buy the theory that you can't write really [N] big hit songs after you've made some money?
Because you've written Bobby McGee or Sunday Morning Coming Down, Today.
You know, you live in a little softer.
I think I've written, I think in the last album I did, which was a thing Don was produced, I got three of probably the best love songs I ever wrote in there.
Because you know by love.
They don't have, they didn't get the attention that For the Good Times and Help Me Make It Through the Night got because they weren't marketed the same way.
And they, you know, somebody else didn't cut them.
But they still could.
So I don't think it's not possible to write it.
I think it might be when there are different things to get people's attention, it might be harder to get their attention.
Back in those days I used to pitch my own songs and go out and pitch them to people.
With a helicopter or whatever.
And I hadn't done that since I went on the road really.
And so after a certain, [E] oh God, a certain length of time after I was outside of Nashville, they just weren't getting pitched.
And so I don't think that you can't write them.
I think you might have a harder time getting other people to hear them.
Good seeing you, Chris.
Good to see you too.
Did you hear the story about this New York Post guy that interviewed Willie last week? No.
[N]
He's got his sense of [B] humor back.
Yeah.
First thing that comes to your mind, just one word on the following.
Whalen.
France.
Willie.
[N] Golf.
Johnny.
Humor.
[Gbm]
[N] Interesting choices.
France for Whalen, huh?
Whalen hates France.
Oh.
Hey, he hates a lot of things.
And I love France.
He came back and told me how much he hated going to the Southeast Asia thing with the high women.
He couldn't stand it.
Yeah, yeah.
He couldn't wait to get home.
He kissed the ground when he got home.
Yeah, yeah.
Do you even remember when your first days were in Nashville when you were there doing the broom on 16th Avenue?
I remember [D] those days better than I remember anything since.
That was some of the best time of my life.
You know, there's some urban legend about you.
Did you really land a helicopter on Johnny's lawn?
Yes, I did.
You really did that, didn't you?
That's kind of turned into an urban legend.
You don't [Eb] know if it's true or not.
Yeah, well, it's true.
I had known John for about a year and a half before that because I had been emptying his ashtrays over at Columbia for a long time and pitching him every song I ever wrote.
But I was trying to make an impression.
So you did.
I landed on an old [Em] National Guard helicopter.
[N] Yeah, that's what we heard.
That's been a long time.
Can you believe that there's a country music artist that's actually going to be 95 million records sold by New Year's Day at Guard Brooks?
It's come a long way since the days of 16th Avenue.
Since those days.
Well, we, those of the people who were like my peers in those days and who were trying, who were worshipping at the idol of John and Willie Nelson and Waylon were hoping that we'd spread the respect of country music.
Guys like Mickey Newberry, you know, and people like that.
And it happened.
We never thought it'd [Gb] happen like that.
That's amazing.
[F] Even Jackie Chan, I interviewed him and he sang [E] me, I said, what's your favorite country song?
He sang, Always [N] on my Mind.
He went through the whole thing.
To hear Jackie Chan do that was really kind of odd.
This guy here, I don't sense.
That's one of the first signs of the apocalypse.
I think it is.
[Ebm] I wrote it down.
This guy you play in this movie, I don't think he's that far away from you, is he?
Was that a big stretch?
No, it was probably the closest, closest to anybody that I.
[N] Even your speech patterns and probably your salty language occasionally.
Well, what's funny is it's the way I [Eb] talk in my house and it was the way James Jones talked in his.
And so when I would come up with lines of my own, James Iverson, it was just [Ab] like James Jones and his daughter told me the same thing.
What do you consider yourself these days?
Writer, singer, actor, janitor, [B] military veteran?
[Ab] I'd be a writer probably on my passport until I die.
And father comes in pretty heavy these days because I've got eight kids, five young ones, and I spend more time at home than I used to.
Do you buy the theory that you can't write really [N] big hit songs after you've made some money?
Because you've written Bobby McGee or Sunday Morning Coming Down, Today.
You know, you live in a little softer.
I think I've written, I think in the last album I did, which was a thing Don was produced, I got three of probably the best love songs I ever wrote in there.
Because you know by love.
They don't have, they didn't get the attention that For the Good Times and Help Me Make It Through the Night got because they weren't marketed the same way.
And they, you know, somebody else didn't cut them.
But they still could.
So I don't think it's not possible to write it.
I think it might be when there are different things to get people's attention, it might be harder to get their attention.
Back in those days I used to pitch my own songs and go out and pitch them to people.
With a helicopter or whatever.
And I hadn't done that since I went on the road really.
And so after a certain, [E] oh God, a certain length of time after I was outside of Nashville, they just weren't getting pitched.
And so I don't think that you can't write them.
I think you might have a harder time getting other people to hear them.
Good seeing you, Chris.
Good to see you too.
Did you hear the story about this New York Post guy that interviewed Willie last week? No.
[N]
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[Eb] Type 2's all close-ups.
_ _ He's got his sense of [B] humor back.
Yeah.
First thing that comes to your mind, just one word on the following.
Whalen.
_ _ _ _ France.
Willie.
_ _ _ _ _ [N] Golf.
_ _ _ Johnny. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Humor.
[Gbm] _
[N] Interesting choices.
France for Whalen, huh?
Whalen hates France.
Oh.
Hey, he hates a lot of things.
And I love France.
He came back and told me how much he hated going to the Southeast Asia thing with the high women.
He couldn't stand it.
Yeah, yeah.
He couldn't wait to get home.
He kissed the ground when he got home.
Yeah, yeah.
Do you even remember when your first days were in Nashville when you were there doing the broom on 16th Avenue?
I remember [D] those days better than I remember anything since.
That was some of the best time of my life.
You know, there's some urban legend about you.
Did you really land a helicopter on Johnny's lawn?
Yes, I did.
You really did that, didn't you?
That's kind of turned into an urban legend.
You don't [Eb] know if it's true or not.
Yeah, well, it's true.
I had known John for about a year and a half before that because I had been emptying his ashtrays over at Columbia for a long time and pitching him every song I ever wrote. _
But I was trying to make an impression.
So you did.
I landed on an old _ _ [Em] National Guard helicopter.
[N] Yeah, that's what we heard.
That's been a long time.
Can you believe that there's a country music artist that's actually going to be 95 million records sold by New Year's Day at Guard Brooks?
It's come a long way since the days of 16th Avenue.
Since those days.
Well, we, _ those of the people who were like my peers in those days and who were trying, who were worshipping at the idol of John and Willie Nelson and Waylon were hoping that we'd spread the respect of country music.
Guys like Mickey Newberry, you know, and people like that.
And it happened.
We never thought it'd [Gb] happen like that.
That's amazing.
[F] Even Jackie Chan, I interviewed him and he sang [E] me, I said, what's your favorite country song?
He sang, Always [N] on my Mind.
He went through the whole thing.
To hear Jackie Chan do that was really kind of odd.
This guy here, I don't sense.
That's one of the first signs of the apocalypse.
I think it is.
[Ebm] I wrote it down.
This guy you play in this movie, I don't think he's that far away from you, is he?
Was that a big stretch?
No, it was probably the closest, closest to anybody that I.
[N] Even your speech patterns and probably your salty language occasionally.
Well, what's funny is it's the way I [Eb] talk in my house and it was the way James Jones talked in his.
And so when I would come up with lines of my own, _ James Iverson, it was just [Ab] like James Jones and his daughter told me the same thing.
What do you consider yourself these days?
Writer, singer, actor, janitor, [B] military veteran?
[Ab] I'd be a writer probably on my passport until I die.
_ _ And father comes in pretty heavy these days because I've got eight kids, five young ones, and _ I spend more time at home than I used to.
Do you buy the theory that you can't write really [N] big hit songs after you've made some money? _
Because you've written Bobby McGee or Sunday Morning Coming Down, Today.
You know, you live in a little softer.
I think I've written, I think in the last album I did, which was a thing Don was produced, I got three of probably the best love songs I ever wrote in there.
Because you know by love.
They don't have, they didn't get the attention that For the Good Times and Help Me Make It Through the Night got because they weren't marketed the same way.
And they, you know, somebody else didn't cut them.
But they still could.
_ _ So I don't think it's not possible to write it.
I think it might be when there are different things to get people's attention, it might be harder to get their attention.
Back in those days I used to pitch my own songs and go out and pitch them to people.
With a helicopter or whatever.
And I hadn't done that since I went on the road really.
And so after a certain, [E] oh God, a certain length of time after I was outside of Nashville, _ they just weren't getting pitched.
And so I don't think that you can't write them.
I think you might have a harder time getting other people to hear them.
Good seeing you, Chris.
Good to see you too.
Did you hear the story about this New York Post guy that interviewed Willie last week? No.
[N] _
_ _ He's got his sense of [B] humor back.
Yeah.
First thing that comes to your mind, just one word on the following.
Whalen.
_ _ _ _ France.
Willie.
_ _ _ _ _ [N] Golf.
_ _ _ Johnny. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Humor.
[Gbm] _
[N] Interesting choices.
France for Whalen, huh?
Whalen hates France.
Oh.
Hey, he hates a lot of things.
And I love France.
He came back and told me how much he hated going to the Southeast Asia thing with the high women.
He couldn't stand it.
Yeah, yeah.
He couldn't wait to get home.
He kissed the ground when he got home.
Yeah, yeah.
Do you even remember when your first days were in Nashville when you were there doing the broom on 16th Avenue?
I remember [D] those days better than I remember anything since.
That was some of the best time of my life.
You know, there's some urban legend about you.
Did you really land a helicopter on Johnny's lawn?
Yes, I did.
You really did that, didn't you?
That's kind of turned into an urban legend.
You don't [Eb] know if it's true or not.
Yeah, well, it's true.
I had known John for about a year and a half before that because I had been emptying his ashtrays over at Columbia for a long time and pitching him every song I ever wrote. _
But I was trying to make an impression.
So you did.
I landed on an old _ _ [Em] National Guard helicopter.
[N] Yeah, that's what we heard.
That's been a long time.
Can you believe that there's a country music artist that's actually going to be 95 million records sold by New Year's Day at Guard Brooks?
It's come a long way since the days of 16th Avenue.
Since those days.
Well, we, _ those of the people who were like my peers in those days and who were trying, who were worshipping at the idol of John and Willie Nelson and Waylon were hoping that we'd spread the respect of country music.
Guys like Mickey Newberry, you know, and people like that.
And it happened.
We never thought it'd [Gb] happen like that.
That's amazing.
[F] Even Jackie Chan, I interviewed him and he sang [E] me, I said, what's your favorite country song?
He sang, Always [N] on my Mind.
He went through the whole thing.
To hear Jackie Chan do that was really kind of odd.
This guy here, I don't sense.
That's one of the first signs of the apocalypse.
I think it is.
[Ebm] I wrote it down.
This guy you play in this movie, I don't think he's that far away from you, is he?
Was that a big stretch?
No, it was probably the closest, closest to anybody that I.
[N] Even your speech patterns and probably your salty language occasionally.
Well, what's funny is it's the way I [Eb] talk in my house and it was the way James Jones talked in his.
And so when I would come up with lines of my own, _ James Iverson, it was just [Ab] like James Jones and his daughter told me the same thing.
What do you consider yourself these days?
Writer, singer, actor, janitor, [B] military veteran?
[Ab] I'd be a writer probably on my passport until I die.
_ _ And father comes in pretty heavy these days because I've got eight kids, five young ones, and _ I spend more time at home than I used to.
Do you buy the theory that you can't write really [N] big hit songs after you've made some money? _
Because you've written Bobby McGee or Sunday Morning Coming Down, Today.
You know, you live in a little softer.
I think I've written, I think in the last album I did, which was a thing Don was produced, I got three of probably the best love songs I ever wrote in there.
Because you know by love.
They don't have, they didn't get the attention that For the Good Times and Help Me Make It Through the Night got because they weren't marketed the same way.
And they, you know, somebody else didn't cut them.
But they still could.
_ _ So I don't think it's not possible to write it.
I think it might be when there are different things to get people's attention, it might be harder to get their attention.
Back in those days I used to pitch my own songs and go out and pitch them to people.
With a helicopter or whatever.
And I hadn't done that since I went on the road really.
And so after a certain, [E] oh God, a certain length of time after I was outside of Nashville, _ they just weren't getting pitched.
And so I don't think that you can't write them.
I think you might have a harder time getting other people to hear them.
Good seeing you, Chris.
Good to see you too.
Did you hear the story about this New York Post guy that interviewed Willie last week? No.
[N] _