Old Timer - Jennings Waylon, ukulele chords


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Published: 2014-08-19 21:25
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I grew up in Wyoming
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In and around Jacksonʼs hole
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In the shadows of the Tetons

Where summers are hot
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And winters unbearably cold
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But the Spring and the Fall
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Are always as good as it gets
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For over 70 years now
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Iʼd watch the sun rise and set

        A
Iʼve been a cowboy
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Working the round-ups in spring
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Iʼve lived in the mountains

Hunted the grizzly
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Trapping the rivers and streams
    G
Always the loner
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Iʼve treasured my freedom the most
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And though i never married
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As a young man i might have come close

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From somewhere back east

She came to the valley
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With a man who did her no good
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He was fast with the ladies

A tin horn gambler
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And a cheat whenever he could
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She had no friends or family
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Most of the time he was gone
    A
He died in a card game
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And she found herself all alone

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Alone and afraid and left unprotected
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ʼCause he was all that she had
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Maybe i should have

But i never told her
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So she never knew he was bad
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But iʼll always remember
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Standing and watching her cry
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There was no one to help her
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But i was determined to try

     A
I mended her fences and

Fixed up her cabin
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I had everything looking good
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I laid by her food

And wood for the winter
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Helping wherever i could
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The more i was around her
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The more i wanted to be
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There was something about her
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That brought out a good side of me

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I went into town,i brought a new outfit
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I got me a haircut and shave
     G
Iʼd trek through the snow

For no good reason
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Just to go by her cabin each day
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I donʼt know about love
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But i was quite taken in by it all
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Till her brother came in the Spring
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And he took her back to St. Paul

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I donʼt go down to Jackson
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Ainʼt nothing there but motels and bars
      A
Too damn many tourists

No place to hide
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Theyʼll find you wherever you are
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They like to call me old timer
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I am getting older i guess
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But i donʼt like the changes
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ʼCause iʼve seen it all at its best

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When my life is over
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I donʼt want to be left in town
     A
But up in the mountains

There is a place
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Iʼve marked off my own piece of ground
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High in the Tetons
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Above and away from it all
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From the top of old Grand

I bet on a clear day - you can see
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All the way to St. Paul

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