Chords for Slaid Cleaves - Horses and Divorces @ Pine Ridge House Concerts

_ _ _ _ _ Come on up for O'Connor and Darren [N] Adubato.
Yeah!
_ _ _ _ [A] _ [Em] _ _
_ _ [F] Well, let's see.
We're going to go southeast just a little bit.
We're going to relax [C#] now.
We're going to stay in the state of Maine.
And that's where my parents [N] live.
Where they have this neighbor who's named Willie Jr.
[F#] And Willie Jr.
is going to be 62 this [C#] year.
He just got married.
He's a high school [B] sweetheart.
_ He's just [D] born in marriage. _
_ [E] And, let's see, what else?
Willie is, [N] he has a little farm.
He has some animals.
But to make a living, of course he doesn't make any money on the farm,
but to make a living he's a refrigeration repairman.
[A#] And it says on his truck, if it ain't chilly, [E] call Willie.
Laughter
[Em] _
_ _ _ And [D] he's a character.
He's a tough guy.
When you [G] get the cold, he garbles [N] kerosene.
And this is what he does to impress people.
He, at his 60th birthday a couple summers ago,
he had a party at his house there in Brown County.
And he brought all his friends out of the house into the road
at one point in the party.
He got down on the double yellow line.
He did a headstand in the middle of the road.
It's not a very busy road.
It's about like this.
Then, this is where the story, I have a few versions of the story.
My neighbor said it was tequila in the back, that it was wild turkey.
Somebody handed Willie a shot while in the headstand.
He did the shot.
I've never seen him do that, but I've heard a lot of people say,
a lot of witnesses say that's what Willie did.
And everyone said, OK Willie, you're a bad ass to me.
Laughter
_ Nobody wants to challenge Willie.
So years ago I thought if I sat down with Willie,
with a little perk, we'd [D#] get some song material.
It was the easiest song I've ever [A#] written.
Laughter
It's called [E] Horses. Laughter _
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_ _ _ _ Music
I met Willie by the still.
He [B] was brewing a batch.
He had a short cigar.
One [Em] last match.
He was telling me about [E] his latest troubles with the [B] buggy man.
_ [Em] He had child support, now he's [A] lonely.
He was looking depressed and [Em] kind of alone.
He was trying [B] to figure out where all his [E] hard earned money went.
_ Well I'll be going [A] to hell, he said.
I [C#m] got nothing but foreign farm [D#m] to [A] lay.
If I weren't for horses and horses, [B] I'd be a lot [E] better off today.
_ That's when I got my notebook.
Laughter
_ Well [B] I said, Willie, that sounds like a song.
[Am] He said, son, [A] you know you may not be [Em] all wrong.
Could you give me a little piece of the pie?
[B] If you take it at a hand.
Laughter
[E] I got a 51 Ford, I'd [A] like to fix up.
I got two sick ponies and one sick pup.
[E] And my third wife's coming today [F#] to take my TV set. _
[A] Well I'll be going to hell, he said.
I got nothing but a Ford [B] and a barn to lay.
[A] If I weren't for horses and horses, I'd be a lot [B] better off today.
[E] All in the low [B] ponies, _ [E] _ _
[A] all in the low [Cm] ponies, [C#m] he said, he'd go fill [E] his own ponies.
[B] All in the low ponies, all in the low ponies, he said, [E] he'd go fill his own ponies.
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_ Laughter
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_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [B] Applause
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ People love Michael's guitar playing wherever we go, but I played a show in Oregon, Sisters
Oregon a few months ago, and they just went nuts for Michael.
They were clapping after every guitar song.
And after the show, a guy approached Michael as we were tearing down [C#m] on stage and said,
Mr.
O'Connor, what kind of strings you got on that guitar to make it sound like that?
Michael [E] just shook his head and looked at him and said, it ain't the strings.
[N] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ Well, God bless the poor old Willie [A] McCann, who knows I was in the good heart of working man.
He bought [E] me a beer last night, got lost [B] and found.
_ _ Said, horses and women are fine, sure enough, but if [A] you don't do them right, things are
going to get rough for me.
I [D#] got these four-year [E] marriages to dial around.
[A] But hallelujah, well, he said, I got nothing but a four [B] and a bar and a [A] leg.
Yeah, but working for horses [E] and divorces, I got a lot [B] more money.
That's great, Howard.
I might even be a millionaire.
But working [E] for horses and [B] divorces, I'd be a lot better off [E] today.
Oh, the Lord will lead me.
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_ _ Those sad songs are for our proper fun still. _