A Long Time Ago Chords by Waylon Jennings

[Start]

[Verse]
D                                                     
■ I don't look the way the average cowboy singer looks
G                                                  
I'll admit I've taken things I never should of took
        A                                                 
You can read a different story in a lot of different books
G                                  
But even then you won't really know
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■   How it was a long time ago
                                   D7                        
Women have been my trouble since I found out they weren't men
   G                                                   
In spite of that I stopped and took a wife now and then
A                                                        
They built their fences high but they couldn't hold me in
      G                          
I was born with a fire down below
      A                          D  
And I learned to fly a long time ago


[Inst]
G A7 G A A7 D
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[Verse]
                               D7                   
Don't ask me about the years I spent out in the rain
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About the ones I spent in love or the ones I spent insane
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Don't ask me who I gave my seat to on that plane
G                         
■ I think you already know
A                           D  
I told you that a long time ago


[Chorus]
E                                                 
Me and ol' Willie lordy we've been sold and bought
A                                                             
I guess you all heard about some kind of system that we fought
   B                                                    
We ain't the only outlaws just the only ones they caught
A                                     Gbm7
They tried to run us off but Willie's slow
       B7                     
I quit running a long time ago


[Outro]
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[End]