When The Big Time Was Over chords by Steve Grisaffe

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Verse 1
C 
I don't know if I should record
this song
or not.
I don't want to get
nobody in trouble
or hurt nobody's feelings.
We were a little band, playing a little bar.
F 
Then someone came down from Nashville.
C 
He said we were going to be stars,
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C 
so we toured in a bus
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C 
It cost us more than the gig paid
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Top 40 singles
C 
Seemed to be good enough
D 
I  was traveling down the road
Doing what I love
Until it stops
C 
And then she left me
F 
when the big time was over
C 
The record label quit pickin' up the bill
Am 
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No more limousines,
C 
no more vacations to Nashville
F 
She'd come to live a life
C 
that she couldn't do without
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I can't believe she left me,
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C 
when the big time was over.
G 
I don't know, I don't know,
C 
Am 
I don't know.
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C 
Ra dio shows were free,
but we played them wholeheartedly.
F 
And everyone was saying
C 
that this was meant to be
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Please play the record,
F 
cause we'll do whatever it takes
G 
Check the charts on Monday,
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C 
hey we're up to 38 until it stopped.
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C 
And then she left me
F 
when the big time was over.
C 
The record label's in bankruptcy.
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No more private planes.
C 
No more commission to the agency.
F 
She'd come to live a life
C 
that she couldn't do without
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I can't believe she left me
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F 
When the big time was over
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It was a living, country song
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When the big time was over