Footlights chords by Merle Haggard
Intro 1
G
Cm
G
Cm
Verse 1
Cm
G
I live the kinda
C
G
life most men only dream of
D
I make my livin' writin' songs
G
D
G
and singin' them
But I'm forty-one years years old and I
C
ain't got no place to go
G
D
G
When it's over
Gm
G
So I hide my age and make the stage and
D
Try to kick the footlights out again
G
Verse 2
Cm
G
C
I throw my old guitar across the stage and
Then my bassman takes
G
the ball
D
And the crowd goes nearly wild to see
G
My guitar nearly fall
After twenty years of pickin'
C
we're still alive
And kickin' and kickin' down
G
the wall
Tonight we'll kick the footlights out
D
G
And walk away without a curtain call
Verse 3
G
C
Tonight we'll kick the
footlights out again
And try to hide the mood
G
we're really in
Might not put on our old
D
Instamaticgrin
Tonight we'll kick the footlights
Interlude 1
out again
G
C
G
D
G
Cm
Verse 4
G
C
I live the kinda life most men
G
D
G
D
only dream of
G
D
And I make my livin' writin'
G
songs and singin' them
D
G
But I'm fortysome years old and I
C
ain't got no place to go
G
D
G
When it's over
So I hide my age and make the stage and
D
Try to kick the footlights out again
Outro 1
G
Cm
Footlights
Merle Haggard
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