Chords for LEONA WILIAMS TELLS STORIES ABOUT HER LIFE AND CAREER -1/3/2014

_ Jodie Miller, a whole bunch of different girls.
Anyway, one night there was a guy at our show
and sitting on the front row and through our whole show
he didn't smile at all.
I got kind of worried about him.
June Shepherd, you know, she's always laughing and carried on.
Anyway, we was having a big time and he didn't smile at all.
And I went out there and I said,
sir, I've been watching you and I,
you haven't smiled at all.
You act like you don't feel good or something's wrong.
And I wanted to tell you, I hope you get better.
He said, I hope you do too. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ I'm from Missouri and I grew up in this little town in Vienna, Missouri.
[G]
I grew up there and I have seven brothers and four sisters.
That's a lot of kids.
That's a lot of grown up and not having too much. _
We had fun growing up.
My dad, he played fiddle and mom, she played,
she played banjo or whatever also.
Some of my brothers came along playing fiddle and guitar.
Somebody asked my dad one time,
I said, Carla, you got 12 kids and they all know how to play the guitar,
the fiddle or something.
How'd you get them kids to do that anyhow?
My dad, he's an old country boy.
He said, I'll tell you how I've done that.
He said, I tuned all them guitars and fiddles up and I laid them [E] over there on the bed.
And I said, now you kids leave them alone.
_ We couldn't help ourselves.
_ [Em] But anyway, we had some fun growing up.
Some of my brothers were really characters too.
Here a while back, one of them went to church and back on,
he always sat kind of in the back.
And when the preacher was preaching and he was really proud of himself,
Miss Jones had got saved that week before
and a bunch of these different people had joined the church.
And he was real proud of that.
He saved Mr.
Johnson, whatever.
And so my brother stood up back there and he said,
hey preacher, he said, you save bad girls?
And the preacher said, well, I sure do.
He said, well, save me [A#] one for next Saturday night.
[F] _
_ _ [G] _ _ _
I have some brother stories I'll show you.
Growing up with seven of them, you're bound to hear a lot of funny stuff.
_ [D] _ _
One of them was driving down the road the other day.
Him and his wife were driving down the road anyway.
And [N] I would throw a sock and he said, sir, I'm going to have to give you a ticket.
He said, because you wasn't wearing your [G] seatbelt.
My brother kind of got irritated about that.
He said, yes, I was wearing my seatbelt.
He said, if you don't believe me, you ask my wife.
So the highway patrol said, ma'am, was your husband wearing his seatbelt?
She thought about it for a minute.
She said, sir, you should never argue with my husband when he's been [N] drinking. _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _
You never know what they're going to tell, or what they're going to do. _
Sure are a lot of fun.
We sure had great parents.
A lot of fun [G] growing up.
But back there in the country, I was trying to write songs back when I was a [D] little kid.
And I got really lucky.
And through the years, [B] I've had my songs recorded by [Am] lots of great singers.
Merle [G] Haggard had a number one record of his song, actually, than did my version [D] of it.
I've recorded it and several other people also.
It goes like this. _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ [F#m] _ [D] My _ legs [A] and my feet [D] have walked as a camp [F#] [D] hardly [G]
moved from trying [D] to please you.
_ _ And my back [A] is sore [D] from bending over backwards [E] just like the world that [A] goes by.
And _ _ [D]
I'm trying [A] hard [D] to keep a smile on sad [E] face [D] [G] while deep down it's breaking _ [D] my bones.
_ _ And [G] as sure as [Gm] the sun shines, [D] _
I'll [G] be a man _ [D] not lonely.
_ [A] I'm [D] not my _ _ _ _ [Bm] [A] fear is _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ [F#m] _ _ [B] _ [A] _
_ _ breaking.
And [D] _
as sure _ _ as the sun shines, _ [G]
I'll be [C] alive.
[D] I'm knowing [A] that I've got [D] my heart.
_ _ _ [A] _ [D] _
_ _ [F#] _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ [A] _ [Bm] _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ [Bm] _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ And as sure as the sun shines, [G]
I'll be a man not lonely.
[C] I'm not my _ [D] _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ fear _ _ [A] is breaking.
[G] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [Em] _
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