Tom T. Hall – Hat Full Of Feathers (Guitar)

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Track 9 of 10 on the album "Places I've Done Time" (1978) [Intro] D G A7 D [Verse 1]
      D                                                            D7         G
I was almost full grown, getting wide in the shoulders, rubbing my horns on a tree

       A7                                                                  D
When I noticed that ladies had big eyes for cowboys, they weren't noticing me

                                                               D7          G
I bought me a Stetson and all of the trappings, hung out where cowboys all gathered

                                 D                  A7                                 D
I copied their style and their slow way of talking, walked like I was chafed by the leather

                                                         D7              G
I tasted the smiles of the rodeo queens and I lied about rides that I'd made

       A7                                                                           D
Then a honker from Jasper I'd been lusting after said, "I'll be out to watch you today"

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Oh, the rigging was borrowed but the fear was my own, it was me and all hell tied together

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Too damn scared to fall, boys, I won it all, and that's how I got my first feather
[Chorus]
  G                  D
A feather for every event that I've won

       A7                D    D7
I will be a contender forever

   G                    D
An all-around cowboy, I outrode 'em all

A7                           D
And I got me a hat full of feathers
[Interlude] G D A7 D [Verse 2]
        D                                                                  D7           G
Well, I feathered my hat through a lot of hard miles, swapped bruises in a lot of good towns

      A7                                                                           D
Lord, how many cowboys and ladies and broncs have left me laid out on the ground, I don't know

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I've had every bone broken and son, I ain't joking, it's painful to be wired together

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I ain't quite so proud as I was a while ago, but I got me a hat full of feathers
[Chorus]
  G                  D
A feather for every event that I've won

       A7                D    D7
I will be a contender forever

   G                    D
An all-around cowboy, I outrode 'em all

      A7                   D        D7
And I got me a hat full of feathers

  G                  D
A feather for every event that I've won

    A7                       D         D7
And all of the storms I have weathered

   G                   D
An all-around cowboy, holding my own

       A7                     D
With a shabby ol' hat full of feathers
[Outro] G D A7 D