Chords for Vernon Oxford in Nashville - Rare Video

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[D] The neon [A] lights of Nashville attract [E] many mountain folk who aim to [A] make it big country music business _ _ _ _ _ _
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[Em] _ _ [B] The bars are full of hopefuls _
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[F] _ _ _ _ _ Vernon [Bb]
Oxford left his home in the country while still a child
He came to Nashville dreaming of stardom on the country music scene
_ _ [G] after a flood of misadventures and misfortunes
_ [E] Vernon rediscovered his [G] childhood faith in Jesus, [Bb] _ but only after [G] hitting rock bottom in the bars and [F] dives of Nashville _ _
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_ [N] _ _ If I started drinking I must have been _ _ _ 14 or so and _
_ _ _ _ _ You know drank beer and
_ Play my guitar _ _
Didn't run around.
I stayed home, you know, and just play and sang and sang the old Hank Williams stuff
_ cry _
_ _ _ Miserable _ _ _
_ Wasn't like any other teenager because uh at the time the
_ Rock-and-roll rage was on and I was considered a square cause I still
Parted my hair and kept it [G] cut and didn't have a duck's tail in the back
And have it long and I didn't go around in gangs wear motorcycle jackets and all that junk
_ _ I sang the old sad Hank Williams [N] songs and just
alone all time and crying _ _ _ _ _
It's just what a person looks for and don't realize it's what he's needing until he finds it, you know
Yeah, you can't tell a person about it
Because there's a blindness of the devil blinds everybody [G] _ and it I think this song right here Connie _ _
explains about it
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wondered so aimless life filled with sin I
[C] _ Would let my dear [G] Savior in
_ And Jesus came like a stranger in the night _
_ Where's the Lord?
[D] I saw [G] the [C] light _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ I don't ever [D] hurt anybody [E] but I could look at [N] things maybe that would have been different had I not been drinking so much
Spending so much time at the tavern
Trying to be what I thought was the image of a country entertainer from what I had seen and what I heard _ _
_ And I think it's time _
_ To let people know that all country entertainer.
They're not all
No paddocks.
They're not all drunks.
Just those that haven't met Jesus. _
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Guess it's what I had missed when I moved to the city.
We got away from from God and _ _
Took me a long time.
Yeah, you know, I felt his presence as a child
_ [G] The church and it's what I was looking for.
I think with the presence of God being with me here _ _
_ the [Dbm] first song that I'm going [E] to sing _ I'd like to use it on a lot of the
Programs I go on because maybe it might get people to thinking
_ _ Was it [Eb] kind of reminded me of what I used to be before [C] I met?
_ the Lord
_ [G] The title of the song is Lord I've tried everything but you _ I _ _ _ _ guess _ _ _ _ _
_ From [C] _ drinking to hide my wedding ring
[G] I've gambled and cheated and walked on a friend or [D] two
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[G] lived like a fool
Till I'm just plain tired [C] and I feel all dirty inside
_ [G] Lord _ I've _
[D] _ Everything [G] but you _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ And [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] they tell me you're the man
_ _ [D] To _ _ _ clean _ _ _ [G] _ my soul and ease my mind
_ [C] Help me Lord.
Oh, there's new time.
Oh
Lord I've tried [D] everything _ [G] but you _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Almost came your way
_ When I lost my family and part of my mind the _ devil's neon light
came shining [D] through
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Just [C] _ doing the same things over again [G] Lord I've [D] tried everything _ [G] but you _ _
Lord I've tried _ _ everything but you _ _ _ _ _
And they tell me that you're the man I've gotta [D] go to
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_ _ _ _ [G] clean my soul and ease my mind
_ Help me Lord.
Oh, there's new time
Lord _ I've tried [D] everything [G] but you
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