Williamson County chords by Gary Stewart

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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Up  (D major) the
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stairs to the back  (G major) door
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of the Wil (A major) liamson County Hotel  (D major) 
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Lives a lady who sells  (G major) her time
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I've  (A major) grown to know her quite  (D major) well
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Each Sunday, we'd find  (G major) us
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On a picnic  (A major) by the  (D major) river side
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Then we'd ride our  (G major) seven
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Down  (A major) on Carter's Creek  (D major) Pike
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This Sunday, she acts dif (G major) ferent,
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I feel  (A major) there's something strange  (D major) 
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Her lips began  (G major) to speak an
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 (A major) other man's name  (D major) 
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I think that only more months ago,  (G major) 
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I picked her  (A major) blood red  (D major) rose
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Now the same hands that catered  (G major) to her
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are  (A major) clutching at her throat  (D major)  (E flat major) 
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She struggled to find  (A flat major) strength,
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then  (B flat major) I heard her  (E flat major) scream
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You're haunted and love will  (A flat major) not  die here,
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I'll  (B flat major) return to curse your dream (E flat major) s
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So each night, in my  (A flat major) dreams,
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my mind  (B flat major) will wander  (E flat major) 
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Down to the  (A flat major) river that  (B flat major) I could run  (E flat major) to
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And I'll ride this nightmare  (A flat major) 
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all over  (B flat major) Williamson County  (E flat major) 
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The devil waits on my  (A flat major) soul for his payment
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I await  (B flat major) the hunter of my bounty