Billy Jack Willis chords by Larry Gatlin & The Gatlin Brothers
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Play, play the guitar boy,
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I wanna hear you play,
play the guitar boy, play the guitar
Hi, Steve Smith,
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I wanna hear a song.
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When I was a kid, I worked in a pawn shop
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in a one -horse west Texas town.
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Most of my clientele was on the bottom
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or on the way all the way down.
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There was something familiar
about the old -timer
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Who sort of stumbled into my place
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I said, old timer,
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what can I do for you?
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He sped up and looked
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right in my face
That's when it hit me and I said
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Didn't you used to be Billy Jack Willis
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The man they call Mr. Guitar?
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I said, didn't you used
to be Billy Jack Willis
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Didn't you used to be a superstar?
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He said, I'm just an old out
-of -work whino
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Lookin' for a job to pay my tab at the bar
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I said, you're the spittin' image
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of a Billy Jack Willis
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The man they call Mr. Guitar
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I said, you can't sweep up
the storeroom out back
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He took the broom and went out alone
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I got pretty busy at the front
of the pawn shop
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Spent a couple of hours on the phone
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That old lady came in and said that you have
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a real cheap sewing machine lying around
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I went back to the storeroom
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and I opened the door,
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I heard a familiar sound
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I said, Lord have mercy, you are
Billy Jack Willis,
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the man they call Mr. Guitar
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I said, happened to you,
Billy Jack Willis?
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Turned you into whatever you are
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He said, I got tired of being Billy Jack Willis
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I never liked being a star
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He said, so I went back to
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being just Billy Jack
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It's been years since I touched a guitar
I said, well, touch up on that one,
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Billy Jack
Cause I wanna hear it,
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it sounds just like this right
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here
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He said, I learned to play
by listening to your records
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You're my hero, you really are
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And he took another guitar
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down off the wall
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Said, kid, let's play some double guitar
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Sound like it's right here.
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Interlude 1
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Verse 2
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said Lord have mercy,
I'm playing with Billy Jack Willis
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You're my hero, you really are
There ain't no doubt about it,
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you are Billy Jack Willis
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The man they call Mr. Guitar
Verse 3
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Yoo -hoo -dee -yaw
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Well, we played some guitar.
We played for about three days.
Then we went and got some
popcorn
and Coca -Cola and M &M's
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and played three more days.
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Steve Smith on that guitar.
You want to hear that again?
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I do.
I want to hear him play it again.
Come on down here, Weeby.
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Let's do it again.
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Kick it off,
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This is a story are
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You're to all to change.
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We are all
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That oh, oh,
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oh
Outro 1
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Billy Jack Willis
Larry Gatlin & The Gatlin Brothers
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