The Sailer

with Waylon Jennings 

Intro 

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[Verso 1]
 
       G 
I Spotted Him The First Night 
       Am 
From Behind My Fence On Stage 
        C                 D 
He Was Big And Rough But Friendly 
       C                  D 
It Was Hard To Guess His Age 
 


[Verso 2]
 
           G              G 
Until The End Of The Evening 
            Am 
He Stumbled Up And Asked My Name 
           C 
He Said I Hope You'll Be Along Boy 
  D                G 
I Like The Way You Play 

C  G  C 
 


[Verso 3]
 
         G 
When I Answered Him He Asked Me 
       Am 
If I'd Join Him For A Beer 
        C            D 
It Was Then I Saw It Hit 
C                  D 
Beneeth His ***** chair 
 


[Verso 4]
 
       G 
So I Joined Him At His Table 
     Am 
And After A Few ************ 
   C 
And As we poured them down 
      D                 G 
I was ******* the words he spoke 

He said 
 


[Refrão]
 
       Em 
These eyes have seen a lot boy 
            G 
I've been around and around the world 
               D 
I should have gave it up, long ago 
C               D 
Found myself a girl 

Em 
Now i'm old and lonely 
          G 
With no family to my name 
      D 
And i pay the price each day son 
          C               G 
And it's more than i can take 

{Solo} 
G  Am  C  D  G 
 

[Verso 5]
 
G 
Next night i searched the bar room 
        Am 
He was nowhere to be found 
     C                     D 
So i asked his friends ***** me 
        C               D 
If the sailer's come around 

{Vers 6} 
             G 
They said i guess you haven't heard yet 
          Am 
But last night he took his life 
          C 
And as a flash his words came back to me 
    D             G 
It cut me like a knife 

He said 
 

[Refrão]
 
       Em 
These eyes have seen a lot boy 
           G 
I've been around and around the world 
               D 
I should have gave it up, long ago 
C               D 
Found myself a girl 

Em 
Now i'm old and lonely 
         G 
With no family to my name 
       D 
And i pay the price each day son 
         C                G 
And it's more than i can take 
 


[Ponte]
 
A 
Two days later he found me 
That letter told **** 
     E 
No return adress, no name 
         D                  E 
Just my session was all it read 

      A 
So i opened it with tremblin hands 
Something told me there 
E 
Sure enogh it was the sound of the sailer 
D       A 
There's what it says 

I read 
 


[Refrão]
 
      F#m 
Son i know your eyes have seen alot 
A 
That you've been around 
      E 
Don't make the same mistake i did 
        D               E 
Find a girl and settle down 

      F#m 
Don't end up old and lonely 
         A 
with no family to your name 
        E 
For the price you'll pay each day son 
     D 
It's moore than you can take 
 

Outro 
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More than you can take 

More than you can take