Chords for Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard - (If Not For) Django and Jimmie (Official Video)
Tempo:
131.9 bpm
Chords used:
D
G
A
Em
E
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[D] On the rhythm [C] guitar went, ba-ba-ba-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee,
[A] you can get the old Jimmy Rogers.
[D]
Alright, let it go boys.
One, two, three.
[A] [D] [Em]
[D] [Em]
[D] I'm a kid with a guitar,
[E] [G] trying to play new [A] art.
[B] When they [D] ask,
[G]
[D] [G] where does [A#] your style [D] come from?
[B]
[A] [D] I know what you [E] mean,
[G] cause I'm
Me and Merle got a new record coming out called Django and Jimmy,
about Django Reinhardt and Jimmy Rogers,
which both of those guys were very influential in both our careers.
Django [G#] is Willie's hero,
Jimmy Rogers was Merle's hero.
When I was introduced to Jimmy Rogers in the mid-50s,
my mother heard somebody singing a song,
and I said, that's so-and-so singing,
and she said, no, that's Jimmy Rogers.
Well, he was like nobody else.
I'm a bandit [D#] liner,
sweetie like [G#] a dirty dog.
You're a little lady.
[N] I started studying Django,
and I got books and things,
and found out all about him,
how he was a traveling gypsy.
He was in a fire when he was like 16 or 17,
he burned his hands,
and these two fingers were all that he had to work with,
and his thumb.
[C#]
[G#]
[C#]
[G] He was incredible,
and I learned all I could.
I even got a guitar that
I thought sounded a little bit like Django's guitar.
[D] Trigger's got that same kind of sound to it.
Django was a star,
[G] he burned up a [D] guitar,
[E]
[F#] [G] with just [A] two good fingers [D] to use.
[A] [Bm] You can't turn back time.
He came to America, and he was so good,
that he didn't even bring a guitar.
[Em] He stepped off the boat, and they said,
where's your guitar?
And he said, well, don't you guys have some over here?
Just [A] the two of them sing about,
where did you get your influences?
And they're [G] just talking about where they came from.
They're both great country singers,
but they've come from two different worlds,
and how they can end up as a sum
of these [F#m] two different sources is pretty [G] interesting.
Might not [D] have been [F#] a Merle
[G] Hartwellie,
[F#m] if [Em] not for [A] Django and Jimmy.
[D] [Em]
Oh, [D] thank [Em]
[G] [D] you.
Thank you, Mr.
Haggerty.
That's awful good.
That might be a Grammy for what's right there.
[A] you can get the old Jimmy Rogers.
[D]
Alright, let it go boys.
One, two, three.
[A] [D] [Em]
[D] [Em]
[D] I'm a kid with a guitar,
[E] [G] trying to play new [A] art.
[B] When they [D] ask,
[G]
[D] [G] where does [A#] your style [D] come from?
[B]
[A] [D] I know what you [E] mean,
[G] cause I'm
Me and Merle got a new record coming out called Django and Jimmy,
about Django Reinhardt and Jimmy Rogers,
which both of those guys were very influential in both our careers.
Django [G#] is Willie's hero,
Jimmy Rogers was Merle's hero.
When I was introduced to Jimmy Rogers in the mid-50s,
my mother heard somebody singing a song,
and I said, that's so-and-so singing,
and she said, no, that's Jimmy Rogers.
Well, he was like nobody else.
I'm a bandit [D#] liner,
sweetie like [G#] a dirty dog.
You're a little lady.
[N] I started studying Django,
and I got books and things,
and found out all about him,
how he was a traveling gypsy.
He was in a fire when he was like 16 or 17,
he burned his hands,
and these two fingers were all that he had to work with,
and his thumb.
[C#]
[G#]
[C#]
[G] He was incredible,
and I learned all I could.
I even got a guitar that
I thought sounded a little bit like Django's guitar.
[D] Trigger's got that same kind of sound to it.
Django was a star,
[G] he burned up a [D] guitar,
[E]
[F#] [G] with just [A] two good fingers [D] to use.
[A] [Bm] You can't turn back time.
He came to America, and he was so good,
that he didn't even bring a guitar.
[Em] He stepped off the boat, and they said,
where's your guitar?
And he said, well, don't you guys have some over here?
Just [A] the two of them sing about,
where did you get your influences?
And they're [G] just talking about where they came from.
They're both great country singers,
but they've come from two different worlds,
and how they can end up as a sum
of these [F#m] two different sources is pretty [G] interesting.
Might not [D] have been [F#] a Merle
[G] Hartwellie,
[F#m] if [Em] not for [A] Django and Jimmy.
[D] [Em]
Oh, [D] thank [Em]
[G] [D] you.
Thank you, Mr.
Haggerty.
That's awful good.
That might be a Grammy for what's right there.
Key:
D
G
A
Em
E
D
G
A
[D] On the rhythm [C] guitar went, ba-ba-ba-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee,
[A] you can get the old Jimmy Rogers.
[D] _
_ _ Alright, let it go boys.
One, two, three. _
[A] _ [D] _ _ _ [Em] _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ [Em] _ _
[D] I'm a kid with a guitar, _
[E] [G] trying to play new [A] art.
[B] When they [D] ask,
_ _ [G] _
[D] _ [G] _ where does [A#] your style [D] come from?
_ _ [B] _
[A] _ [D] I know what you [E] mean,
[G] cause I'm_
Me and Merle got a new record coming out called Django and Jimmy,
about Django Reinhardt and Jimmy Rogers,
which both of those guys were very influential in both our careers.
Django [G#] is Willie's hero,
Jimmy Rogers was Merle's hero.
When I was introduced to Jimmy Rogers in the mid-50s,
my mother heard somebody singing a song,
and I said, that's so-and-so singing,
and she said, no, that's Jimmy Rogers.
Well, he was like nobody else.
I'm a bandit [D#] liner,
_ _ sweetie like [G#] a dirty _ dog. _
_ You're a little _ _ lady. _ _ _ _
[N] _ _ I started studying Django,
and I got books and things,
and found out all about him,
how he was a traveling gypsy.
He was in a fire when he was like 16 or 17,
he burned his hands,
and these two fingers were all that he had to work with,
and his thumb.
[C#] _ _ _ _ _
[G#] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [C#] _ _
_ _ [G] He was incredible,
and I learned all I could.
I even got a guitar that
I thought sounded a little bit like Django's guitar.
[D] Trigger's got that same kind of sound to it.
Django was a star,
[G] he burned up a [D] guitar,
_ _ _ [E] _
[F#] _ [G] with just [A] two good fingers [D] to use. _ _
[A] _ [Bm] You can't turn back time.
He came to America, and he was so good,
that he didn't even bring a guitar.
[Em] He stepped off the boat, and they said,
where's your guitar?
And he said, well, don't you guys have some over here?
_ _ Just [A] the two of them sing about,
where did you get your influences?
And they're [G] just talking about where they came from.
They're both great country singers,
but they've come from two different worlds,
and how they can end up as a sum
of these [F#m] two different sources is pretty [G] interesting.
Might not [D] have been [F#] a Merle _
[G] _ _ Hartwellie, _
[F#m] if _ [Em] not for [A] _ _ Django _ and _ Jimmy. _ _
[D] _ _ _ [Em] _ _
Oh, [D] thank _ [Em] _ _ _
[G] [D] you.
Thank you, Mr.
Haggerty.
That's awful good.
That might be a Grammy for what's right there. _ _
[A] you can get the old Jimmy Rogers.
[D] _
_ _ Alright, let it go boys.
One, two, three. _
[A] _ [D] _ _ _ [Em] _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ [Em] _ _
[D] I'm a kid with a guitar, _
[E] [G] trying to play new [A] art.
[B] When they [D] ask,
_ _ [G] _
[D] _ [G] _ where does [A#] your style [D] come from?
_ _ [B] _
[A] _ [D] I know what you [E] mean,
[G] cause I'm_
Me and Merle got a new record coming out called Django and Jimmy,
about Django Reinhardt and Jimmy Rogers,
which both of those guys were very influential in both our careers.
Django [G#] is Willie's hero,
Jimmy Rogers was Merle's hero.
When I was introduced to Jimmy Rogers in the mid-50s,
my mother heard somebody singing a song,
and I said, that's so-and-so singing,
and she said, no, that's Jimmy Rogers.
Well, he was like nobody else.
I'm a bandit [D#] liner,
_ _ sweetie like [G#] a dirty _ dog. _
_ You're a little _ _ lady. _ _ _ _
[N] _ _ I started studying Django,
and I got books and things,
and found out all about him,
how he was a traveling gypsy.
He was in a fire when he was like 16 or 17,
he burned his hands,
and these two fingers were all that he had to work with,
and his thumb.
[C#] _ _ _ _ _
[G#] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [C#] _ _
_ _ [G] He was incredible,
and I learned all I could.
I even got a guitar that
I thought sounded a little bit like Django's guitar.
[D] Trigger's got that same kind of sound to it.
Django was a star,
[G] he burned up a [D] guitar,
_ _ _ [E] _
[F#] _ [G] with just [A] two good fingers [D] to use. _ _
[A] _ [Bm] You can't turn back time.
He came to America, and he was so good,
that he didn't even bring a guitar.
[Em] He stepped off the boat, and they said,
where's your guitar?
And he said, well, don't you guys have some over here?
_ _ Just [A] the two of them sing about,
where did you get your influences?
And they're [G] just talking about where they came from.
They're both great country singers,
but they've come from two different worlds,
and how they can end up as a sum
of these [F#m] two different sources is pretty [G] interesting.
Might not [D] have been [F#] a Merle _
[G] _ _ Hartwellie, _
[F#m] if _ [Em] not for [A] _ _ Django _ and _ Jimmy. _ _
[D] _ _ _ [Em] _ _
Oh, [D] thank _ [Em] _ _ _
[G] [D] you.
Thank you, Mr.
Haggerty.
That's awful good.
That might be a Grammy for what's right there. _ _