Chords for Todd Snider w/ Jerry Jeff Walker, Jason Isbell, Amanda Shires - "Mr. Bojangles"

with him and the [E] thing that fascinates me the most about him is that you know
that song Bojangles he made that up in jail you know and then he came out like
when you consider the things that most people come out of jail with _ _ it's
usually not a standard you know _ _ it's usually a new crime idea or a new drug
addiction or a boyfriend but it's not _ _ so seldom a Bojangles type _ thing _ there's
an expression they say you could _ fall in a [D] rosebush and come out smelling [Em] _ huh I
_ told you to wait in the truck
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_ listen [E] no so I just gotta tell us it's gonna be sound like I'm bragging and if
I am man give it to me I've been coming around long enough I can do this just
one time maybe [G#m] you know I [D] got to go up I got to go do a show with Jerry Jeff
Walker [B] in Santa Fe and after the [D#] show we went in week and we [D] closed up a bar _
and it's and when the bar got closed we started walking back to our hotel and
there was nobody on the street and as we were walking back [Bm] to our hotel
somewhere [A] in the distance of around the corner you could hear [D] this
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[D] that's [C#m] shit Jerry you hear [F#] that _ [A] yeah let's go and see what it is we go over
there [B] there's this old guy playing a [C#m] banjo and a [Dm] harmonica nobody on the
street but [Bm] me and Jerry Jeff and this guy [D] who has no idea that Jerry [A] Jeff
even in town is singing [D] mr.
Bojangles at [C#m] 3 in the morning to nobody [Bm] _ [E] I kept
waiting for Ashton Kutcher [G] to come out or [Am] something like that it felt like I
was like oh I [Dm] thought and did somebody [C#m] dose me or something [Bm] so we [C#m] walk over to
[D] this guy and we stood there and we listened to him [B] play mr.
Bojangles and
the whole time I was thinking to myself _ should I tell this [D] guy that this is the
guy that wrote it you know and then I thought no if he wants to tell me can
tell him and he didn't tell me he just said there he listened to the song [B] and
when it got over he said that was great and [E] he threw a bunch of money _ I _ _ thought
to myself I [C#] don't know must have been something I did good [F] in a previous life
because I [F#]
didn't did something this life worth that you know like [C#m] the karma on
that [C] and I was grateful that I got [C#] to be there for that moment [E] and if you're
told me I would like to sing [D] that song
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met him in the cell in New [Bm] Orleans I was [C#] down I [G] was _ _ _ _ [A] down in hell
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[A] he looked to me to be the [D] eyes of age [G] _ _
he just spoke [A] right out _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
he talked of [F#m] his life _
_ he [Bm] talked of life _ _ [E] _ _ _
he laughed slapped [A] his leg a step
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across the [A] cell _ _ grabbed [D] _ _
[A] his pants a better [B] stance _ he [G] just floated up in the sky
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he let go [F#m] and laughed _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ [E] shook _ back his [A] clothes all around [F#m] _ he [E] laughed cause he made it
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_ Mr.
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Bojangles _ _ _ _
_ Mr.
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Bojangles
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_ _ _ [B] _ Mr.
_ Bojangles
come [C#] on [D] down
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Mr.
Bojangles
he danced with [C#m] those that missed the [Bm] shows and candy fairs
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[G] _ _ _ throughout the [A] south _ _ _ _
[D] _ spoke [A] with tears of [Bm] 15 _ years
[E] our dog and him _ _ traveled [A] about _ _ _
_ _ [G] till his dog up and [F#m] _ died
he up and died
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_ _ after 20 years he [A] still breathes _ _
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_ [D] _ he [A] said I danced at every chance in honky tonks
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drinks [A] and tips _
_ _ [D] but most of the time I [A] just spent behind [Bm] these county bars
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I drank [A] some beer _
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shook [F#m] his head
_ _ as he shook [Bm] his [B] head
I [E] _ _
heard someone [A] ask him please
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Mr.
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Bojangles
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Mr.
_ [A] Bojangles _
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Mr.
_ [B] Bojangles _
_ [D] come on down
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