C      C      F                   C
Me and Willie played in a country band
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Seven long years together playing those one night stands
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Used to say the booze and bars is going to wear him out
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Hold On, a song he wrote tear your heart right out

[Verse 2]
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We traveled the northern route and from the Greate Lakes to Monreal
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Hitting all the honkytonks, I bet we played them all
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Willie played to ease his soul and drank to ease his mind
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I never understood how he played it so good while drinking himseld half blind. And you..

[Chorus]
F                G            Am
Wouldn't think a Man so weak ...    could be so 
F        Dm                Am
strong.... Take a crowd of rowdy drunks and 
G
hush them with a song And I'd 
C        F            G                      Am | G  F 
rather be singing my heart out in a dark and din|gy  bar
F             C               G
Hitting those high notes with Willie's sad guitar. And I'd 
C          F              G             Am   | G   F       
rather be singing a blues song singing  sweet and  high 
F                     C          G                C
Willie standing right by my side  playing country slide

[Solo]
C        F            G                      Am | G
F        C            G                      Am | G
F        C            

[Verse 3]
C      C      F                   C
Me and Willie watched a lot of dreams die young. 
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Plans we made how quick they fade, fumbling one by one.
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Willie never let it bother him and if he did, it didn't show.
F          C             G               G
You know he had a way of letting go am king the blue times old. And you ...

[Chorus]
F                G            Am
Wouldn't think a Man so weak ...    could be so 
F        Dm                Am
strong.... Take a crowd of rowdy drunks and 
G
hush them with a song And I'd 
C        F            G                      Am | G  F 
rather be singing my heart out in a dark and din|gy  bar
F             C               G
Hitting those high notes with Willie's sad guitar. And I'd 
C          F              G             Am   | G   F       
rather be singing a blues song singing  sweet and  high 
F                     C          G                C
Willie standing right by my side  playing country slide

[Verse 4]
C      C      F                   C
I left Willie in a bar in Marietta
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Couldn't stand to watch the man I love drink himself to death. 
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Now I'm working in Ottawa and I'm doing well I guess.
F          C             G               G
You know the good life don't look so good from behind a desk  And I'd 
C        F            G                      Am | G  F 
rather be singing my heart out in a dark and din|gy  bar
F             C               G
Hitting those high notes with Willie's sad guitar. And I'd 
C          F              G             Am   | G   F       
rather be singing a blues song singing  sweet and  high 
F                     C          G                C
Willie standing right by my side  playing country slide