The Ballad Of Handy Mackey
The Ballad Of Handy Mackey

The Ballad Of Handy Mackey easy guitar chords by Larry Jon Wilson

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  • D

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    • Intro 1


    Verse 1
    Me 
    and 
    a friend 
    on 
    Five 
    Knots 
    Road 

    in 
    51 
    rode 
    ponies 
    makin' 
    memories 

    And 
    we 
    rode up 
    to 
    an old 
    gray 
    shack 

    where 
    Handy 
    Mackie 
    lived 
    and 

    told 
    us 
    good 
    things 

    He'd 
    say 
    a bird 
    in 
    hand 

    is 
    a 
    bird 
    for the 
    pan 

    And 
    si
    lence 
    came 
    to golden 

    cause 
    I 
    never 
    learned 
    me 

    nothin' 
    from 
    no 
    quiet 
    man 

    Andy 
    said, 
    Andy 
    said 
    Andy, 

    won't 
    you tell 
    me one 
    more 
    good 
    thing 

    before 
    I 
    go back 
    to 
    the 
    city? 

    Won't 
    you 
    tell 
    me something 

    I 
    can 
    use 
    to 
    grow 
    up 
    with 

    and 
    be 
    a man 
    like 
    you? 

    And 
    he 
    said 
    a 
    penny 
    saved 

    is 
    a 
    penny 
    burned 

    You 
    bet
    ter 
    go 
    on 
    and 
    spend 
    them, 
    son 

    The 
    world 
    just 
    might 
    not 
    be 
    here 

    By 
    the 
    your 
    next one's 
    earned 

    Handy 
    said 
    Handy 
    said 
    Handy, 

    won't 
    you 
    show 
    me 
    how 
    to 
    work 
    the land 

    To 
    be my 
    own 
    man 
    someday 

    He 
    bent 
    you back 
    down 
    all 
    them 
    years 

    and 
    never 
    looked 
    an 
    old 

    man 
    be
    fore 
    you 
    paid 

    And 
    he said 
    work
    in' 
    the land 

    don't 
    make 
    an old 
    man 
    ain't 

    what 
    you need 
    to hear 

    Soar
    in' and 
    reapin' 
    and 
    layin' 
    by 

    and 
    croppin' 
    and 
    choppin' 

    maybe get 
    you by 
    for 
    one 

    more 
    year 


    The 
    old 
    gray 
    shack 
    and 
    hand 
    he burned 

    One 
    night 
    the 
    fire 
    was cold 

    before 
    they 
    found 
    him 

    A 
    funeral 
    in 
    the cold, 

    a few 
    old 
    friends 
    and 

    And family 
    preach
    er gathered 
    round 
    him 

    But 
    I've 
    re
    membered 
    all 

    the good 
    things 

    through 
    the years 

    They 
    bring 
    me joy 

    And 
    I 
    know 
    he's 
    in 
    a 
    better 
    place 

    Where 
    everybody 
    calls 
    him man, 
    not 
    boy 

    They 
    call 
    him man, 
    not 
    boy 

    And 
    I hope 
    one day 
    I 
    say 
    something 

    that 
    Andy 
    Mackie 
    would have 
    said. 

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