Merle Haggard - The Brothers Chords

[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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Several years ago
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He gave up everything that mattered
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And rambled off to Nashville Tennessee
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With a pocket full of country songs
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And his old guitar
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He thought that's where he was supposed to be
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But the family stood here waiting and his songs
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Are getting faded
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There's probably not a nickel in his jeans
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But if he don't get good enough
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To sing his way back home
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He knows that he can always count on me
 
 
[Chorus]
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Momma is Joe still driving
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Them old nails out in Colorado
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Lord I always thought a-lot of him
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You know maybe someday
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Me and this old guitar
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Just might happen to get lucky
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And I'll get a chance to go back and visit my old friends
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Did Sonny get that ranch he always wanted
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Out by Boulder
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Lord, I used to want to be a cowboy too
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But I'm still stuck here in Nashville writing songs and getting older
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And mostly I always think about you
 
 
[Verse 2]
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I wonder where he'd be right now
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If he was not a dreamer
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And if he was just
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A little more like me
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He wouldn't be in Nashville
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Reaching for the stars
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And wishing things were like they used to be
 
 
[Chorus]
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Mom is Joe still driving
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Them old nails in Colorado
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I always thought a lot of him
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Maybe someday
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Me and this old guitar
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Is gonna happen to get lucky
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And I'll come back and visit my old friends
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Mom did Sonny get that ranch that he always wanted
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Out by Boulder
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I used to want to be a cowboy too
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Mam I'm stuck here in Nashville writing songs and getting older
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But mostly I been thinking about you
 
 
[Outro]
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