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n	1	4Th Of July - Shooter Jennings	n	1	A Backstage Pass - Johnny Cash
	2			2
	3	[Intro]		3	[Intro]
n	4	[C] [F] x4	n	4	"Hello I'm Johnny Cash !
	5			5	One night I had a backstage pass to the Willie Nelson Show..."
	6			6
				7	\|[Chorus]
				8	\|There were [C] wackoes and weirdoes
				9	\|And [G] dingbats and dodoes
				10	\|And [D] athletes and movie stars
				11	\|And [G] David Allan Coe
				12	\|There was [C] leather and lace
				13	\|And every [G] minority race
				14	\|With a [D] backstage pass to the Willie Nelson [G] Show
				15
	7	[Verse 1]		16	[Verse 1]
n	8	C G F	n	17	Kris[G]tofferson got an offer for a [D] movie
	9	Alone with the morning burning red on the canvas in my head		18	Promoters closed another deal or [G] two
	10	Am		19	Waylon got a call from his son [C] Shooter
	11	Painting a picture of you [G]		20	And [A] he went home the minute he was [D] through
	12	C G F		21	[G] I moved with the mob at inter[D]mission
	13	And me driving across country, in a dusty old RV		22	To the green room where you see who you can [G] see
	14	Am		23	There were has-been's and would-be's and [C] never-were's
	15	Just the road and its majesty [G]		24	[G] Paupers punks and [D] millionaires and [G] me
	16	F G		25
	17	And I’m looking at you with the world in the rear view
	18
	19
	20	\|[Chorus]
	21	\| C
	22	\|You were pretty as can be, sitting in the front seat
	23	\|G C
	24	\| Looking at me, telling me you love me, and you’re happy to be,
	25	\| F
	26	\|With me on the 4th of July
	27	\| C
	28	\|We sang Stranglehold to the stereo
	29	\| G
	30	\|Couldn’t take no more of that rock n roll
	31	\| C F
	32	\|So we put on a little George Jones and just sang along
	33
	34	Insturmental:
	35	C F C F
	36
	37
	38	[Verse 2]
	39	C G F
	40	Those white lines get drawn into the sun if you ain’t got no one
	41	Am
	42	To keep you hanging on [G]
	43	C G F
	44	And there you were like a queen in your nightgown, riding shotgun from town to town
	45	Am G
	46	Staking a claim on the world we found
	47	F G
	48	And I’m singing to you, you’re singing to me, you were out of the blue to a boy like me
	49
	50
	51	[Chorus]		26	[Chorus]
	52			27
n	53		n	28	[Verse 2]
	54			29	Hells [G] Angels blocked the traffic to the [D] building
	55	Insturmental:		30	In order for the beer truck to come [G] through
	56	C Am F G		31	And waitin' in the wings to sing with [C] Willie
				32	Were [A] hopeful stars of flickering magni[D]tude
				33	There was a [G] singer Willie knew back in the [D] fifties
				34	Who once paid him fifty dollars for a [G] song
				35	There were women who once did and some who [C] still would
				36	I [G] heard one ask "did [D] Connie come [G] along?"
	57			37
n	58	Bridge:	n
	59	F G
	60	and I’m looking for you in the silence that we share
	61
	62
	63	\|[Chorus]		38	\|[Chorus]
n	64	\|G NC	n	39	\|And there were [C] wackoes and weirdoes
	65	\| You were pretty as can be, sitting in the front seat		40	\|And [G] dingbats and dodoes
	66	\|G C		41	\|And [D] athletes and movie stars
	67	\|Looking at me, telling me you love me, and you’re happy to be,		42	\|And [G] David Allan Coe
	68	\| F		43	\|There was [C] leather and lace
	69	\|With me on the 4th of July		44	\|And every [G] minority race
	70	\| C		45	\|With a [D] backstage pass to the Willie Nelson [G] Show
	71	\|We sang Stranglehold to the stereo		46
	72	\| G
	73	\|Couldn’t take no more of that rock n roll
	74	\| C F
	75	\|So we put on a little George Jones and just sang along
	76
	77
	78	[Outro]		47	[Outro]
t	79	F Em Dm C	t	48	[G] I wish you could've been there
				49	Well maybe you [G] were !

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