leonard

leonard easy guitar chords by Merle Haggard

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  • Verse 1
    D
    A
    D

    [Chorus]
    G

    When Leonard finally came
    D

    to California
    G
    D

    He was twenty-one years years old,
    A

    as I recall
    D
    G

    He loved to write a song and
    D

    pick on the guitar
    G
    A

    And he came to hang a gold
    D

    one on the wall
    Verse 2
    Bm

    The town in which he lived is
    G

    not important

    But you'll know which town I mean
    D
    A

    by the time I'm through
    Bm
    G

    He soon became a famous entertainer

    But Leonard was a name
    A

    he never used
    D
    Verse 3

    G

    He was on his way to hav
    D

    ing what he wanted
    G
    D
    A

    Just about as close as one could be
    D
    G
    D

    Hey, once he even followed Elvis Presley
    G

    And he wrote a lot of
    A

    country songs for me
    D
    Verse 4

    Bm
    G

    But he laid it all aside to follow Jesus
    D
    A

    For years he chose to let his music go
    Bm

    But preaching wasn't

    really meant for Leonard
    G
    A

    But how in the hell was Le

    onard s'posed to know
    D
    Verse 5

    G

    Well, life began to twist
    D

    it's way around him
    G

    And I wondered how he
    D
    A

    carried such a load
    D

    He came back again to try
    G
    D

    his luck in music
    G
    A

    And lost his wife and fam

    ily on the road
    D
    Verse 6
    Bm


    After that he seemed to bog
    G

    down even deeper

    And I saw what booze and pill
    D
    A

    s could really do
    Bm

    And I wondered if I'd ever
    G

    see him sober

    But I forgot about a friend
    A

    that Leonard knew
    D
    Verse 7

    G
    D

    Well, Leonard gave me lots of inspiration
    G

    He helped teach me how to
    D
    A

    write a country song
    D

    And he even brought around
    G
    D

    a bag of groceries
    G
    A

    Hey, back before

    Muskogee came along
    D

    Verse 8
    Bm

    Really, I'm not trying to
    G

    hide his show name

    Or the town in which this
    D

    episode began
    A
    Verse 9

    Bm

    Somehow I had to write
    G

    a song for old Tommy
    A

    If just to see the smilin' faces

    in the band
    D

    [Chorus]
    Outro 1
    D
    G
    D
    G
    D
    A

    D
    G
    D
    G
    A
    D


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