Chords for Willie Nelson - The Story Of Heroes

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[Am] My son and I, Lucas, wanted to do some [G] recording together.
[F] We had an opportunity to be in [C] Nashville close to the same time,
and it just kind of [Am] fell [C] together.
We could do like [G] that one song that [C] I wrote,
Every Time He Drinks He Thinks of Her.
Every time he [G] drinks he [C] thinks of her.
_ [A] Since I really [D] wanted to do an album [G] with Lucas,
this kind of [F] made it easy.
It's easy [C] now, but it just [F] might get worse.
[C] Cause every [G] time he drinks he [C] thinks of her.
Where is [F] our hero [C] tonight?
_ _ _ I wrote this song about Billy Joe Shaver.
[G] It turned out pretty good, so I decided to put it in the album.
And we [C] had another title for the album,
but then _ as we got closer to the release date,
[F] I thought Heroes [Fm] was a little better [C] idea for a title.
Where [G] is our hero tonight?
[C] The original title was going to be Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die.
I started thinking about maybe Heroes might be a better title,
and maybe more people could relate [G] to that title a little [C] bit.
_ [G] Maybe me and Snoop got off on the other one pretty good,
but that was just us.
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Snoop and I [F] enjoy vibing [C] a little bit occasionally.
We wound up in Amsterdam.
He was touring [G] over there and I was touring over there,
so [C] I went to his show, [Gm] sang a couple of songs,
[F] he'd come to my island and sing a couple,
and [C] we kind of hit [F] it off [G] and [C] became good friends.
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_ _ _ [G] I run through it a couple of times, and then we'll_
After we get the lead [C] vocals where we want them,
we'll figure out what to do with harmony.
When me and Buddy were trying to decide what we [G] wanted to do,
I thought of a few songs, Lucas thought of a few,
[B] and [Am] it was really that [G] easy. _
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_ _ [Am] Oh, you see, [Dm] no [C] one knows this [G] more than me
[Eb] Well, the moon is [Cm] broke, _ [Ab] the sky is [Eb] cracked _
_ _ Come on [Gm] [Cm] up to the house, _ _ [Eb] the only thing you have_
I had heard the song a [Abm] couple of times,
but the more I listened to it, the more I realized
that this is reality and [Bb] this is a [Eb] great song.
We all live and we're all going to die and go somewhere,
we don't know where, but we all know there's another.
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[Eb] This ain't the end of it.
Come on up [Bb] to the [Am] house, _ _
[D] _ riding [G] along
On a horse he called Music
[D] With [Bm] a song on his lips and [A] a tear in his eye
Everything just fell into [D] place,
and if you know what you are going to do or want to do
before you get to the studio, [G] it makes it a lot easier.
[D] _ Buddy put together a great band,
and that was really all we needed.
Marking the place [G] where a horse he called [D]
Music
_ [Bm] Lays with a cowboy in the [A] sweet by [D] and by _
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