Original Artist - Big Wheel Symphony guitar chord
BIG WHEEL SYMPHONY
©2003 All Rights Reserved
By: Fred Gibson
Recorded in Bm7
PLAY CAPO 2 (Am7)
All verses chorded the same
Intro: Am7
VERSE ONE
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I was 31 years old.....when I walked out of that town.
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Guitar in my left hand....and eyes to the ground.
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I gave my best to Nashville...but it just looked away,
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cause, the music I'm writin'...ain't the music they play.
VERSE TWO
Thumbing down the highway...in the heat of the day
Ten miles out of Nashville...luck finally broke my way
An old man...in a big rig..said "where ya' going son"
I said " I don't care...just as long...as it's not where I've come from".
VERSE THREE
The old man kinda smiled...and said "I've been there my friend
Way back in the 50's...and the 60's once again.
Yea, I knew Willie Nelson...when he didn't have a dime,
then he sold a song to Feron Young...and one to Patsy Cline".
INSTRUMENTAL VERSE
VERSE FOUR
The old man told his tales...as he drove down the road
about the times he came so close...to sellin' songs he wrote.
and as he rambled on incessantly...my mind just turned away
Cause I had heard those stories...a million times a day
VERSE FIVE
As he pushed on through the night...I didn't say a thing.
Those 18 wheels hummed a tune...it was like a symphony
A fiddle or a steel guitar...would sure sound good..right there
As I played the tune in my mind...and I breathed the mornin' air.
VERSE SIX
He stopped that rig in Baton Rouge...and we said our good-by's.
He said, "I can see that something...has changed in your eyes".
I said ,"I'm going down to Austin...and give it one more try.
Maybe me a Willie...can pick before I die".
INSTRUMENTAL VERSE
VERSE SEVEN
Just a few months later...at Poodie's on the the lake.
In walks Willie Nelson...was it luck or maybe fate.
I sang about those wasted years..down in Tennessee
and I finished strong...with my song ..Big Wheel Symphony.
VERSE EIGHT
Willie came up to me....and dropped a 100 in the jar.
He said "boy ,I see you've been there...and that will take you far".
And with a smile he added,...just one more thing my friend,
He said "don't go back Nashville,... that's like pissin in the wind".
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And with a smile he added,..just one more thing my friend,
He said "don't go back Nashville,... that's like pissin in the wind".
