Songwriter's Lament chords by Buck Owens

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Verse 1
G 
Am 
G 
C 
 (G major)  (A minor)  (G major)  (C major) My big plans
were a -soaring,
yesterday would be the day
F 
The morning  (F major) I pulled into Music City,
C 
USA  (C major) 
F 
The  (F major) folks back home in Tulsa
C 
said I had just what it takes  (C major) 
D 
G 
But it won't  (D major) be long and I'll be on my way  (G major) 
C 
I said  (C major) good morning gentlemen
and picked up my guitar
F 
Ex (F major) pecting them to say
C 
that I would soon be going far  (C major) 
F 
The  (F major) only rise I noticed
was the smoke from his cigar
C 
G 
C 
 (C major) He turned to me and  (G major) this he had to  (C major) say
F 
Mister, we've got ten thousand pickers  (F major) 
G 
C 
A songwriter  (G major) under every rock (C major) 
G 
C 
We've  (G major) got  (C major) singers a -singin'
F 
And  (F major) guitars a -twangin'
G 
C 
And heaven  (G major) only knows where it'll stop  (C major) 
Am 
G 
C 
 (A minor) I     (G major) knocked  (C major) on every door
I found on 16th Avenue
F 
I  (F major) dropped in every name
C 
I'd ever read in the who's  (C major) who I said
F 
 (F major) I know big Harlem, old Hank,
and there's Tom T
C 
D 
 (C major) But  (D major) nothing changed the
G 
way they looked at me  (G major) 
C 
Last night  (C major) I dreamed I passed away
And heaven was my fate
F 
And  (F major) there was old St. Peter
I could see him plain as day
C 
F 
 (C major) He said,  (F major) leave your name and number
With the girl out at the gate
C 
 (C major) As he turned away,
G 
C 
these words  (G major) I heard him  (C major) say
G 
C 
Mis (G major) ter,  (C major) we've got
F 
ten thousand pickers  (F major) 
G 
C 
G 
A songwriter  (G major) under every rock (C major)  (G major) 
C 
We've got  (C major) singers a -singin'
F 
And guitars  (F major) a -twangin'
G 
And heav (G major) en only knows where it will stop
C 
 (C major) 