Silver Hair and Silver Wings
Chris Wall
El Western Motel 2012

https://youtu.be/FDvN7o2A66M

God Bless Chris Wall, Little John, Boone and the Three Teardrops Tavern

Capo 1

       A                    D     A  
So Joe why they called this happy hour 
                 E          A
Well I feel like crying out loud
A                                        D          A
‘Cause if we called it cheap drinks for losers, Joe said
                 E         A
We wouldn't have much of a crowd

A                               D      E      A 
On a barstool sits a man with a guitar in his hand
         A             A   
And he's mixing up the blues
    B             E   
Sad metaphors and booze
        A                       D      E      A  
And his version of the truth is barely eighty proof
          D                 A                 E                 A           
He's just trying to raise a rent (?) where he used to raise the roof.


A
And the places that he plays these days
    D           E     A
Are filled with empty chairs
        D                         A  
And the stations that once played his songs
    B                 E  
Are long gone off the air
A                             E              A
Stacks of unsold A Tracks sit on his trailer floor
        D              A
And the places that he used to pack
     E                     A   
Have closed their swinging doors

A      D                               A                    
Silver hair and silver wings, hear the sad ol' cowboy sing 
D              G         D               A      E 
Footlights and Would you catch a falling star?
       A     D       A 
Long ago the one big hit
                  D          A                 D   
Now it's strictly drinks and tips for which he sings
                E      A  
Silver hair and silver wings

A      F#m              D            A       
And he dreams that he's back at that Three Teardrops Tavern
         A                             E 
And he's laughing with Little John and Boone
F#m           D            A        D   
Adored by the best looking women in Dallas
    A                        E
Who knew every word to every tune
        A                                D               A 
But the whiskey stained his portrait and graveled up his mind
        D                       A             B         E 
But his voice still sounds like glasspacks on sweet ol' 59
A  
Some folks think he's stubborn
     D           E     A 
Some say he just can't say
    D                  A            E                  A  
The difference between quittin' and knowin when you're beat.


A      D                               A                    
Silver hair and silver wings, hear the sad ol' cowboy sing 
D              G         D               A      E 
Footlights and Would you catch a falling star?
       A     D       A 
Long ago the one big hit
                  D          A                 D   
Now it's strictly drinks and tips for which he sings
                E      A  
Silver hair and silver wings

D A D A E A D A D A D E D 

             F#m          D             A             D 
And he cries three little teardrops for some damn ol' bar room
           A           E
That closed 15 years ago
         F#m           D
And he's heartsick and lonesome
         A             D
And he's stuck on that road son
    A                         E
And years are beginning to show

        A
In this man there's a heart
        D   E         A  
In this man there's a head
D                      A
One ain't all that smart
    B                 E  
The other's half near dead
      A        D  
As he sings he chokes down
               A
The tears of a clown
       D               A             E     A 
And he feels like that joke has been going around

(Chorus)
A      D                               A                    
Silver hair and silver wings, hear the sad ol' cowboy sing 
D              G         D               A      E 
Footlights and Would you catch a falling star?
       A     D       A 
Long ago the one big hit
                  D          A                 D   
Now it's strictly drinks and tips for which he sings
                E      A  
Silver hair and silver wings
       D                 A    
Silver hair and silver wings