leonard chords by
Merle Haggard

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Key: D major•

Verse 1

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[Chorus]

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When Leonard finally came

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to California

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He was twenty-one years years old,

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as I recall

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He loved to write a song and

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pick on the guitar

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And he came to hang a gold

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one on the wall

Verse 2

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The town in which he lived is

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not important

But you'll know which town I mean

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by the time I'm through

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He soon became a famous entertainer

But Leonard was a name

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he never used

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Verse 3

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He was on his way to hav

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ing what he wanted

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Just about as close as one could be

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Hey, once he even followed Elvis Presley

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And he wrote a lot of

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country songs for me

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Verse 4

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But he laid it all aside to follow Jesus

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For years he chose to let his music go

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But preaching wasn't

really meant for Leonard

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But how in the hell was Le

onard s'posed to know

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Verse 5

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Well, life began to twist

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it's way around him

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And I wondered how he

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carried such a load

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He came back again to try

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his luck in music

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And lost his wife and fam

ily on the road

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Verse 6

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After that he seemed to bog

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down even deeper

And I saw what booze and pill

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s could really do

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And I wondered if I'd ever

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see him sober

But I forgot about a friend

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that Leonard knew

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Verse 7

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Well, Leonard gave me lots of inspiration

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He helped teach me how to

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write a country song

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And he even brought around

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a bag of groceries

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Hey, back before

Muskogee came along

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Verse 8

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Really, I'm not trying to

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hide his show name

Or the town in which this

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episode began

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Verse 9

Bm

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Somehow I had to write

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a song for old Tommy

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If just to see the smilin' faces

in the band

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[Chorus]

Outro 1

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