Chords for What Do You Think Waylon? Prime Time Country 1999

_ You know every now and then we have an artist on the show that has led such a rich and diverse
life we feel that you could benefit from their advice.
Don't laugh until I'm done.
It's like having a doctor and [G#m] a bartender and Dear Abby all rolled up into one.
It's a little something we like to call, What Do You Think Waylon?
[N] Oh boy. _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ This [D#] is always fun.
You never know what's coming.
That's it.
From them or you.
So that's what we do.
[Bm] Who do we have here Nan?
We have a nice lady from Eugene, Oregon.
What's your name ma'am? Diana Barnes.
You want to ask Waylon a [B] question?
_ Have you ever considered running for public office?
Wow.
Oh boy.
I've had some people ask me to do [G] that.
You really don't want me to run for office.
[N] You know I don't even want to walk anymore.
I've had a hard enough time with that.
Now [Am] I don't know [B] any of the answers.
I'm one of them guys that sits back at home and gripes.
Yeah.
[F#] I'm good at that.
That's good.
Everybody's got to do that. Yeah.
We got, you know, the things we got going now.
Some of them people.
_ Old Billy boy.
But we get to gripe and laugh now.
Isn't that good?
We get it all.
Gotta have a sense of humor.
You know.
If things got to be funnier, you're in trouble.
Yeah.
Big trouble.
[B] Who do we have here Nan?
Hi there.
What's your name?
Joni Shive.
Where are you from Joni?
Pennsylvania.
Tresco, Pennsylvania.
Where?
Tresco, Pennsylvania.
Tresco.
Northeast [Bm] Pennsylvania.
Okay. Thank you.
Okay.
My question is, _ country [B] music today, how is it different than 20 or 30 years ago?
_ _ You know what?
It changes.
20 or 30 years ago.
Yeah.
I'll tell you what. _
There's some great artists out there.
There's just a lot more of them, you know.
[D#] So there's some of them that are not really up to par.
But people like Andy Griggs, [F#] Leroy Parnell, Travis Tritt, I mean them guys are here forever. _
_ _ [A#] _ _ _ [F#] Mostly the women.
I'm really impressed with them.
Trisha Yearwood just kills me.
She's a great singer.
But being an artist anymore is not, [B] _ you know, anything I say might sound like sour [F] grape.
See I have my opinion, because I'm looking at it just like you do.
[F#] Because I don't understand some of it, you know. _
And the image thing, they've got image consultants.
I've heard.
Yeah, can you imagine [B] me and Willie Nelson in _ [D#] a room?
No, I can't.
In a room with an image consultant.
He'd come out with that one.
I've blown every image I ever had.
I'm wondering how long it would take you to beat up the image consultant.
Not that long.
It's a thorough thing.
You know, [F#] and they sent me a thing the other day.
Somebody sent me a thing that says that they wanted me to come back and that I was a pro
writer and they wanted to tell me what kind of songs to write because they wanted me to
write songs that the record company [E] wanted.
Who cares what the record company wants?
I never knew, you know, I never knew that mattered a whole lot.
They're supposed to sell what you do.
[Bm] But that's the_
she left.
_ She was frightened.
My question was too damn long for [N] my answer.
Anyway, yeah. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Yes, _ _ _
_ [B] _ sir.
How you doing, buddy?
Let me recover here.
This is Bruce.
[F#] Where are you from, Bruce?
I'm from Apple [B] Valley, California.
And my question is_
Rollington Rogers, yeah.
Yes, sir.
[A#] My question is, with the rash [F#] of shooting in our schools, what do you feel needs to be done?
[B] _
Wait a minute.
The shootings.
All the shootings in the various [Bm] high schools.
All right, you know what?
That's a [F#] serious question and I do have a serious answer.
It's not the guns.
You know, because those boys were not supposed to_
those kids are not supposed to have
those guns to start with.
That's against the law.
So you can make all the laws you want to forever, you know, and that's not going to_
Anybody that's going to shoot somebody, don't worry about the laws.
I'll tell you who's at blame.
And it's, you know, when you can get your picture on the front page of Time magazine
and when the television shows your face and tells them what your name is.
England stopped that one time.
England did not do that.
I don't know if they still don't do it or not.
But if you don't give them that 15 minutes of glory, and that's [B] exactly what they're looking for,
there'll be a lot less of it.
Yes.
[N] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ He said, you're asking me that.
I've been wanting to say [F#] that to somebody for a long time.
Well, that's great.
I believe that, you know, we just got to quit giving them people publicity.
Yes, indeed.
Here's a happy fella.
There he is.
My name is Jim Yarbrough.
I'm from Leveland, Texas.
Ain't nobody from Leveland, Texas.
You know, I used to work there.
I used to work at KLBT.
It's appropriately named, though, isn't it?
Leveland, [D#] I believe.
Yeah, well, Littlefield is right up the street.
And that's where I'm from.
And then Lubbock, I mean, you know, your dog can run off back there, and you can watch him go for three days. _ _ _
Settle down over there.
The only place in the world you can stand up to your butt in mud and have dust blow in your face.
Exactly.
I've seen that happen.
I have a serious question.
I have all of your albums.
Okay.
That's serious right there.
I ain't got none of them.
How about that?
[F#] I wouldn't have that junk in my_
One of my very favorites is Old Wayland Sings Old Hank.
What I'd love to see is an album of you doing nothing but Buddy Holly songs, Old Wayland Sings Old [D#] Buddy.
What do you think?
[G#] Oh, wow.
You know what?
You ought to do that.
You know, [D#] we got a picture, the picture of you brothers, of you and Buddy Holly.
Could you put that up, Clay?
Look at that.
Yeah.
Oh, my goodness.
Yeah.
Man, you were both pretty, wasn't you?
You were both gorgeous, yeah.
Well, you know where that was at?
That was in Grand Central [F#] Station.
Can you imagine me, 19 years old, sitting in, you know, in that little old booth where you take those pictures?
And there's me and Buddy trying to_
I think I was having to wait for something that wasn't there yet, so we had a lot of times to kill.
There's one of those pictures that had Buddy signaling someone somehow, wasn't there?
Well, he was giving somebody a finger in [F] front of my face.
Okay, yeah, yeah.
That's what it was, yeah.
We'll have that one.
But [F#] we had a, you know, I mean, I just, I was like this, you know, looking up.
I was downtown looking for the Empire State Building three days in a row.
And nobody would tell me where's that, and I'm standing right under it.
I didn't know [D] buildings did that.
[B] _ Sunburned the roof of your mouth [F#] looking all the time.
Exactly, you know.
You should do that record.
That'd be great.
You know what?
I've looked at some of his songs and everything, and I'd have a lot of fun doing it.
I might do that, you know.
The Crickets are real good friends of mine, and they're working [N] on some things now with McCartney.
And I'm supposed to do one of the tracks for that.
Good, good.
Thank you, sir.
Thank you very much.
Thank you, Will.
He's going to sing another one right after this,