Billy Overcame His Size chords by Merle Haggard
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Intro 1
(C major) (G major) (C major) (G major) (C major)
Verse 1
Billy (C major) (G major) (C major) never
made the football team
'Cause Billy's size (G major) was small
But Billy's brother was a
mighty lad
And played a lot of high school ball
(C major)
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Verse 2
And Billy's daddy (G major) never
favored (C major) him
He catered to the bigger (F major) guys
But later on in a (C major) bigger way
(G major) Billy over (C major) came (G major) his size
(C major)
Verse 3
The years flew by and Billy grew
But he never got very (G major) big
We called him shorty but he never got mad
He was always good for a dig (C major)
Verse 4
And we paid (C major) no mind when he fell in line
And left with the other guys (F major)
And the Sargent laughed
at his skinny (C major) frame
But (G major) Billy overcame his size
(C major)
Verse 5
(F major) Billy overcame his size
Yeah, (C major) Billy overcame his (A minor) size
Later on in a (G major) bigger way
Bill overcame (A minor) his (C major) size
Verse 6
(C major)
Billy's brother (G major) made a football (C major) star
And the biggest man in town (G major)
And the scholarship that kept him home
Never seemed to bring him down (C major)
Verse 7
But on the (C major) other hand his brother Bill
Put pride in his daddy's eye (F major) s
When he died to save those (C major) other men
(G major) Billy overcame his size
(C major)
Verse 8
(F major) Billy overcame his size
(C major) Billy overcame (A minor) his size
When he died (C major) to save (G major) those other men
Billy overcame (A minor) his (C major) size
Outro 1
(C major)
Billy Overcame His Size
Merle Haggard
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