Hank Williams' Guitar chords by Freddie Hart

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Verse 1
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I walked into country
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music's Hall of Fame
An old guitar hung on the wall that
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wore Hank Williams' name
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As I stood and wondered
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what a sight to see
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I'll swear I heard Hank's old
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guitar start to talk to me
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Verse 2
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My friend you're looking
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at old lonely soul
While these mem'ries locked inside of me
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that's worth much more than gold
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Oh we were closer than friends
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could ever be
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Everything we did we did together
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in perfect harmony
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I would remember one night
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up in a hotel room
To look upon his face you'd thing
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that his whole world was doom
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But as I stood there in the
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corner I could see
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That a song would soon be born tonight
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oh he reached his hand for me
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Verse 3

And he held me like a man would hold his girl

I was a closest thing to him in his lonely world

I could fill a story begging of release

That night we wrote Your Cheatin'

Heart another masterpiece

Verse 4
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Yeah we wrote so  many
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songs just like this
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And we're proud to know that we  gave to world
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just a little more happiness
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Hank told me just before he went away
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Oh buddy I'd like to take you with me
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but this time you will have to stay

Verse 5
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I walked out of country
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music's Hall of Fame
Still I can hear Hank's old
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guitar crying all in vain
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Like a child has lost I
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heard its mournful cry
Hank I'm so lonesome
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I could die
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