Chords for Todd Snider ~ Stoney ~ Whispering Beard Folk Festival 2011

[D] _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ [F#m] _ [E] _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _
[A] I'm [D] gonna play an old Jerry Jeff Walker [A] song [E] for you.
_ _ [A] _ I first [F#m] ran into Stoney, _ [A] _ [D] was in a bar [E] downtown, _
_ _ [A] _ up in Richmond, [F#m] Virginia, _ [A] _ [D] _ just bumming [E] around,
_ _ [D] _ _ [F#m] suitcase [E] to suitcase.
_ [A] _ We started [F#m] in talking, _ [A] _ _ [E] finding out [F#m] about the things [E] we shared and [D] the many [E] miles that [A] we've been.
_ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
He carried this [F#m] old gray pillowcase [D] _
full of books by [E] the rail.
_ _ [A] He had this old [F#m] concertina guitar, it's [D] all beat up and played [E] like hell.
_ _ [D] _
Until [E] you got him started _ [A] _
singing them [F#m] gospel songs.
_ [A] _ He [E] could play [F#m] them all night for [E] nothing.
He'd [Bm] tell you _
[E] stories [A] till dawn. _ _ _
_ _ _ He'd say, get your bags, [F#m] boy, the sun's up, [A] _ [D] _ it's time [E] to roll.
_ _ [Am] _ Ain't no better [F#m] time than early [C#m] in the morning [E] to [D] be out walking down [E] that road.
_ [A] _ [D] _ Watching some [E] new day begin.
[A] While the fools, they're just [F#m] rushing on by.
_ [A] _ We'll be [E] like some old Mr.
[F#m]
Independence, [A] we'll [Bm] take our [E] own [A] sweet time.
_ [F#m] _ _ _ [A] _ [D] _
_ _ [A] _ [E] _ _ _ [A] _ _
So we walked [F#m] on out the highway [A] _ [D]
under a [E] clear blue sky.
_ [A] _
I was [F#m] listening to the tales that he [D] told, drinking [E] warm red wine.
[D] _
About [E] the night he rode seven, [A] about some girl who'd [F#m] done him wrong.
_ [A] _
About [E] everything that [F#m] he could think [E] of [D] _ [E] as we [A] passed along. _ _
[F#m] _ _ _ [A] _ _ [D] _ _ _
[F#m] _ [E] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
Stoney had [F#m] a magic _ [A] [D] that made him hard to [E] forget.
_ _ [A] Like the night [E] we rolled [F#] down that old Ohio [E] [D] highway in a pickup truck that [E] nearly _ _ [Am] wrecked.
[Dm] There was a [E] crazy woman driving, [A] she was drunk and she [E] was carrying [F#m] on.
_ [A] _ _
Until Stoney [F#m] finally calmed [E] her, _ [D] _
[E] singing them gospel [A] songs. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [E] We split [F#m] the road and Lord, _ _ [D] he just shook my [E]
hand.
_ [A] _ He said, I see you [F#m] someplace, cowboy, [A] but [D] you know he [E] never had.
_ _ _ [D] We were [E] all that free then, _ [A] _ just [Em] walking [F#m] down the road.
_ [A] _ We [E] didn't [F#] always used to care [C#m] so much [D] where that [E] highway [A] would go. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ [A] _ _
[D] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
A few years later we found [F#m] out old Stoney was a [E] bullshitter, there was no doubt about [D] it.
[E] _ _ _ _
[A] _ Still it was just the [F#m] way that he told you things, [D] _ made you [E] never want to doubt it. _ _
[D] _ _ He [E] kept you going _ [A] when the [F#m] going got rough. _
[A] _ _ He could get you [F#m] through a lean [A] time [D] _ [E] just by making [A] it up. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [F#m] _ _ _ _ [A] _ [D] _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
First ran [F#m] into Stoney [A] [D] was in a bar [E] downtown, _ _ [A] _ _
_ [F#m] Richmond, Virginia, _ _ [D] _
just [E] bumming around.
_ _ [A] _
You know when you're young and [F#m] you don't always tell the [Em] truth all [D] the time,
[E] your parents they tell you that you're being a [A] fibber.
_ And if [F#m] you don't get that message [A] _ [D]
and start telling [E] the truth after that,
_ [Am] _
[E] you get a little older they [F#m] call you a liar.
_ [A] _ [D] _
_ _ [E] _ If you don't get the [A] message there and you still don't tell [F#] the whole truth and nothing but [A] the truth [D] after that,
some of your [E] friends might start to call you [A] a bullshitter.
_ _ [F#m] _ _ _ [A] _ [D] _ _
_ [E] _ _ If you [A] still don't get the message _ [F#m] and move on into your [D] life telling the whole truth [E] and nothing but the truth [A] after that, _ _
and you start [F#m] to get pretty good at [A] it, [D] _ _ _
[A] _ [E] they call you a [A] folk singer and [F#m] _ _ [A] they [D] cheer for you. _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ I first [F#m] ran into Stoney [A] _ [D] was in a bar [E]
downtown, _ _ [A] _ _ Richmond, [F#m]
Virginia, [A] just [D] _ _ [A] bumming [E] around.
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [A] Suitcase [E] to suitcase, [A] _ _ _ [E] [F#m] started in talking, _ [A] _ _ finding out about [F#m] the things that we shared and [D] the many [A] minds [E] that [A]
we've been. _ _ _ _ _ _ _