Gift chords by Jerry Jeff Walker
Verse 1
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Jerry Jeff Walker
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In a boarding house, I'd lay upstairs,
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And dream of how I'd live
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someday
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Downstairs there sat, a man who had
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A guitar he never learned to play
Verse 2
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For my thirteenth birthday,
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grandma bought the guitar
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Told me I should learn how to play
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And the gift she gave me
changed me
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'Cause the music is the main thing,
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That got me to this point
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here today
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Chorus: And I was lucky, 'cause I
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Verse 3
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used her gift
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To get in touch with how to live
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And looking back I now realize,
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music changed my life
Interlude 1
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Verse 4
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Just out of school, I had no clue
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Of what it was I'd like to do
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I only know, the open road
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Was the way I chose to pass on through
Verse 5
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I took that guitar with me,
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down the lonesome highway
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And I began my search
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for a song
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And somewhere in the distance,
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the music and the mystery
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Of how I would live come along
Verse 6
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That
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music saved my life,
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music became my life
Interlude 2
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Verse 7
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As time went by, I found that I
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Could climb up on the stage and sing
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But when I sang, the songs I wrote
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It became a very special thing
Verse 8
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But songs to me were personal
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And the business side just killed me
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And I withdrew inside my shell
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With the contracts and the lawsuits
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I started heavy drinking,
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'Til I finally lost touch with myself
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Interlude 3
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Bridge: I guess playing
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music for
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money brought problems
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That I didn't face very well
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Being self- taught gave me
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nothing to lean on
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I had to look in myself
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Verse 10
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I took a year off
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and did some fasting
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Just to clean the cobwebs out
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And I went back to Grandma's guitar
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Just to hear a simple sound
Verse 11
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When I look around me,
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I saw my loving family
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And a home we had built on a hill
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I discovered the music had led
me to the one place
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Where my heart and soul are re- filled
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Interlude 4
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Chorus: Music saved
Verse 12
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my life, yeah,
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music really saved my life
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Yes, music really saved my life
Gift
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