Waylon Jennings - Littlefield guitar chord

Littlefield

written by Jennings/Murrah

from the album "A Man Called Hoss"

tabbed 8/18/05

Lyrical help would be much appreciated...most of this is before my time.

INTRO: D C G C

D C

I was born in '37, a sharecropper's son

G C

Out on the great south plains

D C

There in the suburbs of a dryland cotton patch

G C

In the middle of a west Texas rain

(SPOKEN):

D C

And for all of you folks out there in radioland who don't know what a West Texas rain is,

G C

Well that's what's commonly known as a sandstorm

D C G C

Remember that, you'll need it later

I guess times were hard but livin' was easy

We always found a way to survive

Fried chicken and gravy and an old tune off the guitar

Was enough to keep a country boy alive

(SPOKEN):

D C

And on Saturday afternoons it was Lester Pruitt's "The Picture Show"

G C D

On Saturday's nights is the Grand Ol' Uproar from Nashville Tennessee, take it away boys

D C G C

Lookin' back now and thinkin' it over

Life was like an old country song

My mama taught me the melody and daddy taught me the chords

I made the words up on my own

(SPOKEN):

D C G

And sometimes it didn't rhyme, but they always had a reason,

C

Even if it was unbeknownst to no one but myself

D C G C

I guess all that west Texas sand in my crawl, that's what make me so mean

D C

I'd bet I was the only boy ever expelled from Sunday school

G C D

Lover, fighter, wild-horse rider, and purty dern good windmill maker

C G C

Look out world, here I come