What Would Willie Do chords by Bruce Robison

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Verse 1
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I was lost in trouble and strife
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I heard a voice that had changed my life
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Now it's a brand new day
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and I ain't afraid to say
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You're not alone
when you're down and out
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And I think you know who
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I'm talkin' about
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And  I don't know how I'll get through
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I ask myself,
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what would Willie do?
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What would Willie do?
Will he travel so far
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With nothing but a song
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and his old guitar
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And a tour bus and some semi -trucks
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30 crewmen and a little bit of luck
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He loves all the people
The ugly and the randy
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If you don't believe me
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Take a look at the family
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and they'll tell you that it's true
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When skies are gray what would
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Willie do?
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Long ago he came unto us
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His words were simple
but they went right through us
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And the whole world sang along
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But then they didn't want
to hear his songs
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He was gone
And we thought we'd lost him
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But he grew his hair
And he moved to Austin
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And all of the people smiled
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We came to hear him sing from miles
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Like a miracle,
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all those rednecks and hippies
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From New York City down
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to Mississippi
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Stood together and raised their bread
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When it's all gone wrong
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What would Willie
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do?
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You know sometimes I wonder
when I ain't getting nowhere
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What would old Willie do
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when it all gets too much to bear?
And I can see him on his
lonely old tour bus
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He's got his problems
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just like any of us
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Well, he'd just take a deep breath,
and then he'd let it all go
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And he'd take another deep breath,
and he'd let it all go
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And he'd take another deep breath,
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and he'd hold it
Oh, and I bet he'd feel hungry
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In a way that seems strange,
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yeah, hungry
For all the things that he just
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can't change.
Like the time he passed out
in his own bedroom
and his wife sewed him up in the sheets
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and beat him with the broom
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and he forgave her.
You think that's rough?
Well then the IRS came
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and they took away all of his stuff.
They took his golf course
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and his recording studio
and well he just went out
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and didn't show.
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So when it's all coming down on you,
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you better ask yourself,
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what would Willie do?
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What would Willie do?
Will he take a little time
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and talk to old Rooster
As you drive on down the line
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There's millions down that road
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With a word he's gonna lighten their load
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He loves all the people
No matter their races
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Hell, he even had a hit country song
With Julio Iglesias
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And that ain't easy to do
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So when it's all too much
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What would Willie
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when the game gets tough
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What would Willie
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when they call your bluff
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What would Willie do you