Jerry Jeff Walker – That Old Beat Up Guitar (Guitar)

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Well I found her in a pawnshop

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Somewhere up in Ohio

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Where I guess some rounder came up short

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And he had to let her go

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Cost me ninety dollars

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But she's worth much more by far

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Cause I never had a better friend

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Than that old beat up guitar

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She didn't look like too much

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Just a Roy Smeck Stage Deluxe

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But a lady has never faired as well

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Who'd traveled through so much

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She picked up the name of Angel

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In an old New Orleans bar

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Where a drunken poet drew one

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On the top of that guitar

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Old Dave Stovall he marked her

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Scratched the song right out of his heart

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Seems everyone who used her 

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Scarred that old beat up guitar

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She didn't look like too much

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Just a Roy Smeck Stage Deluxe

     F                 C
But a lady has never faired as well

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Who'd traveled through so much

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She traveled with me always 

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Through the alleys and bars

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Songs I sang and friends I knew

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Were part of that guitar

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At nights it was my pillow 

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Sleeping underneath the stars

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Day and night I stayed alive

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With that old beat up guitar

     F                    G
She didn't look like too much

        C                 F
Just a Roy Smeck Stage Deluxe

     F                 C
But a lady has never faired as well

        G                  C
Who'd traveled through so much

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Yeah a ramblin man he has his troubles

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Hanging on to all that he owns

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After many years of travelin'

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That guitar fell by the road

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Then one night in New Mexico

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I stumbled into this bar

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Angel laid there smilin'

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On that old beat up guitar

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Well I took her from the wall

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Ran my hands across the scars

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Played again the old songs

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That were written on that guitar

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Friends I've loved and lost

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Many nights inside of a bar

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Came back so clearly singing with

      G             C
That old beat up guitar

     F                    G
She didn't look like too much

        C                 F
Just a Roy Smeck Stage Deluxe

     F                 C
But a lady has never faired as well

        G                  C
Who'd traveled through so much

 C
Now she travels with me always 

             F          C
Through the alleys and bars

 C
Songs I sing and friends I know

            G
They are a part of that guitar

    C
At nights it is my pillow 

          F               C
Sleeping underneath the stars

         C
Day and night I stayed alive

           G              C
With that old beat up guitar

     F                    G
She didn't look like too much

        C                 F
Just a Roy Smeck Stage Deluxe

     F                 C
But a lady has never faired as well

        G                  C
Who'd traveled through so much