How To Be A Country Star chords by The Statler Brothers

Verse 1
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There’s questions we’re always
hearing every where we go
Like how do I cut a record or
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get on a country show
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Well, it takes more than just ambition and
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three chords on an old guitar
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There’s a few more things you ought
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to learn to be a country star
Verse 2
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You got to learn to sing like
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Waylon or pick like Jerry Reed
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Yodel like Jeannie Shepard,
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write songs like Tom T
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Put a cry in your voice like Haggard,
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learn Spanish like Johnny R
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Whisper like Bill Anderson and
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you’ll be a country star
Verse 3
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Play piano like Ronnie Mil sap
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or Gilly or Jerry Lee
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Yo- yo like Roy Acuff or talk
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plain like Ralph Emery
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Growl like Conway Twitty, get a red,
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white and blue guitar
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Build a swimming pool like Webb did
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and you’ll be a country star
Verse 4
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Be tall like Sonny James is,
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tell jokes like Minnie Pearl
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Or be short like Jimmy Dickens
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or play five- string like Earl
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Get a hip band like Willie,
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learn to stutter like M- Mel
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Get a cap like Roy Clark wore or
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a voice like Barbara Mandrel
Verse 5
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Be rich like Eddy Arnold,
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say you’re makin' more than you are
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Get a gimmick like Charley Pride got
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and you’ll be a country star
Verse 6
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But if you have no talent
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and you’re not a male
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If you’re built somewhat like Dolly
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or have a face like Crystal Gayle
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Come back stage and ask for Harold,
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Phil, Don or Lou
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And we’ll see you get auditioned for
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