Rockin' Chair chords by Jerry Jeff Walker
Verse 1
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There's an old rocking chair
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Spreading memories everywhere
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On that old home porch
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across from Tipple's store
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You can see where the wood is worn
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Where my granddaddy rested his arm
As he rocked me in the rocking chair
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Well, don't rock no more
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Verse 2
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Well, I was born in a broken home
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I was
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Verse 3
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blinded by things gone wrong
Verse 4
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Had no vision
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of what the future held in store
Verse 5
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Just a baby, barely three
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When my
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granddaddy came for me
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Rock me in the rocking chair
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that don't rock no more
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But if that old rocking
chair could read
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Thoughts from people's minds
Oh, the stories it could
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tell time after time
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Stories others never hear
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Of the thoughts one holds so dear
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Oh, how I wish I could've read
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my grandpa's mind
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Everybody lightly clap. electric solo
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Interlude 1
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Verse 7
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Granddaddy
lived the Christian way
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The truth and goodness he portrayed
He loved to gather his thoughts
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As he rocked on the hardwood floor
Verse 8
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And while he'd sit and rock
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He paid no mind to the time on the clock
As they rocked me in the rocking chair
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They don't rock no more
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But if that rocking chair could read
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Thoughts from people's minds
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Old stories they could tell time after time
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Stories others never hear Ž
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Other thoughts one holds so dear Ž
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Oh how I wish I coulda read
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my grandpa's mind
Ž Ž Ž
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But if that old rocking chair
could read Ž
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Thoughts from people's minds Ž
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Oh stories they could tell time after time
Verse 9
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Stories of the never here
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Of the thoughts one holds so dear
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How I wish I could have read
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my grandpa's mind
As he rocked me in the rocking chair
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That don't rock no more
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Don't rock no more
Mr. Rick Cardwell,
he's right over there in the corner.
There's some producers up in Nashville
that says,
boy, can't you stop writing anything
but lizards and sage songs,
can't you write something
with contemporary
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relationships in them?
Don't you know the
way you're doing it,
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you're just pissing in the wind.
Now see, there's a contemporary relationship,
me and that producer.
Rockin' Chair
Jerry Jeff Walker
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