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Original Artist - Big Wheel Symphony (Chord)
Submitter: cowboynemo (71) on 9/14/03 2 comments
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BIG WHEEL SYMPHONY
©2003 All Rights Reserved
By: Fred Gibson
Recorded in Bm7


PLAY CAPO 2 (Am7)

All verses chorded the same


Intro: Am7


VERSE ONE            
 Am7                           G                 Am7
I was 31 years old.....when I walked out of that town.
                              G            Am7                                
Guitar in my left hand....and eyes to the ground.
   G                                             Am7
I gave my best to Nashville...but it just looked away,
           E7                                       Am7
cause, the music I'm writin'...ain't the music they play.

VERSE TWO

Thumbing down the highway...in the heat of the day

Ten miles out of Nashville...luck finally broke my way

An old man...in a big rig..said "where ya' going son"

I said " I don't care...just as long...as it's not where I've come from".

VERSE THREE

The old man kinda smiled...and said "I've been there my friend

Way back in the 50's...and the 60's once again.

Yea, I knew Willie Nelson...when he didn't have a dime,

then he sold a song to Feron Young...and one to Patsy Cline".


INSTRUMENTAL VERSE


VERSE FOUR

The old man told his tales...as he drove down the road

about the times he came so close...to sellin' songs he wrote.

and as he rambled on incessantly...my mind just turned away

Cause I had heard those stories...a million times a day 

VERSE FIVE

As he pushed on through the night...I didn't say a thing.

Those 18 wheels hummed a tune...it was like a symphony

A fiddle or a steel guitar...would sure sound good..right there

As I played the tune in my mind...and I breathed the mornin' air.

VERSE SIX

He stopped that rig in Baton Rouge...and we said our good-by's.

He said, "I can see that something...has changed in your eyes".

I said ,"I'm going down to Austin...and give it one more try.

Maybe me a Willie...can pick before I die".


INSTRUMENTAL VERSE


VERSE SEVEN

Just a few months later...at Poodie's on the the lake.

In walks Willie Nelson...was it luck or maybe fate.

I sang about those wasted years..down in Tennessee

and I finished strong...with my song ..Big Wheel Symphony. 

VERSE EIGHT

Willie came up to me....and dropped a 100 in the jar.

He said "boy ,I see you've been there...and that will take you far".

And with a smile he added,...just one more thing my friend,

He said "don't go back Nashville,... that's like pissin in the wind".

TAGG

And with a smile he added,..just one more thing my friend,

He said "don't go back Nashville,... that's like pissin in the wind".
 
 Comments (click here to add a non-facebook comment)
anyone who views this should get the mp3 and listen as it is an awsome song with one devil of a story line.
-oldcountryboy | 10/27/2003
awesome lyrics. kudos to the last 2 lines.
that "pissin in the wind" phrase really hit me.
-macg1 | 11/27/2004
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