Chords for Merle Haggard @ Charlottetown Civic Cente, May 17th

[Eb] We [G] love you.
We love you.
Thank you.
You don't have to do anything.
Just pick [B] up a fiddle.
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_ _ [F] Some people say this is a weapon.
[Eb] Well, it has to be a weapon.
_ Start a war on this thing.
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_ [C] _ [D] Make people change their minds.
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_ _ _ [B] Some years ago, [Gbm] they were kind enough [Db] down in Nashville, [B] Tennessee to put you in a studio.
[Db] They had a country music [B] hall of fame.
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_ _ _ [Eb] _ [B] Donate, that we can put on display down there, something [Db] that's close to your heart, that you don't use [B] anymore. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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I said, yeah, I've got [Db] a little [Bm] sweet vintage Martin guitar.
[A] My name on it is called Electric Eyes.
[B] _ _
[Db] We've got it [Bm] down in the [A] room with the Army Guard and everything.
_ [Eb] _ _ Some [F] more time [Db] passed and [E] I got [D] a phone call from Martin Stewart.
[Ab] He said, remember all that you got the [Bm] news on.
I said, no.
[Db] He said, well, [A] we've [B] got a flood down here.
_ He said it [Bm] wiped away [Bb] most of the hall of fame.
_ _ [Bm] That guitar here [A] is somewhere on the Cumberland River.
[B] They saw it in the [A] past tournament going through. _
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_ That's [Bm] the new thing.
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[Eb] _ [B] _ _ Anyway, we wrote a song about it.
I said, well, at least we can do it.
We wrote a song about it.
We wrote a song about working in Tennessee.
[Bb] It's about losing that guitar.
[A] _
Our guitar.
Sorry.
[Ab] Guitar, our guitar.
[Bm] _ _ _ _ _ People here are getting [A] dialed up.
_ _ [Ab] Really. _ _
_ _ [Dbm] That's why we're [Ab] here.
We're going to get [Db] most of the money back. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ _ I want to tell you about our old [F] song called We're Never Going to [E] Swim in the Cumberland River [B] Again. _
_ _ _ _ My next one is I'm Never Going to Ride that [A] Ferris _ [B] _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ [F] Wheel.
Somebody said we're going to go over [Fm] a 16-mile [Eb] bridge.
I said, I'm going to bed.
[B] _ _ _ [A] _
I was asleep when we went over [Db] that.
I almost got [A] blown away. _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [B] Anyway, this is called [Db] Working in Tennessee.
We have this out [Eb] here where they're selling [E] CDs.
It's a sky and [Db] there's an album on it.
[Bm] _ [E] _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ _ Here we go.
[E] _ _
Whoa.
_ _ There [D] it is.
[E] _
[Eb] Mom and Pop.
[G] _ _ Woo!
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_ _ [E] Well, I'm down in South. _
Wound [A] up working in off the land.
[D] Look at me, working in [G] Tennessee.
_ _ [E] I got no money.
Got a lot of clients down [A] here working with the guys.
[D] Look at me, working [G] in Tennessee.
You've heard most of this, right?
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[G] _ _ _ [E] Well, I'm with them, looking for a job.
[A] _ Looking for a day in the farm.
[D] Look at me, working in Tennessee.
[G] _ You know it?
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[A] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ [E] _ What?
Yeah. _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ [E] Well, I'm from down there. _
Wound [A] up working in off the land.
[D] Look at me, working in [G] Tennessee. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [E] Well, I'm working in the water when [A] I'm so hungry and cold at night.
Look [D] at me, working in Tennessee.
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