leonard chords by
Merle Haggard

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Key: D major

Verse 1
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A A 
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[Chorus]
G G 
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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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A A 
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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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A A 
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by the time I'm through
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G G 
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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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A A 
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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
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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]

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