{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1788545,"song":"A Long Time Ago","artist":"Waylon Jennings","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/1788545-a-long-time-ago-chords-by-waylon-jennings/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1788545?type=chord","rating":5,"votes":58,"content":"[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]\r\nI don't look the way the average cowboy singer looks [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nI'll admit I've taken things I never should'a took[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nYou can read a different story in a lot of different books[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut even then you won't really know[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]A7[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nHow it was a long time ago[/tab]\r\n \r\n[Verse] \r\n[tab] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWomen have been my trouble since I found out they weren't men[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIn spite of that I stopped and took a wife now and then [/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nThey built their fences high but they couldn't hold me in[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI was born with a fire down below[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]A7[/ch]                         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd I learned to fly a long time ago[/tab]\r\n \r\n[Verse] \r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch] \r\nDon't ask me about the years I spent out in the rain[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nAbout the ones I spent in love or the ones I spent insane[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nDon't ask me who I gave my seat to on that plane[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI think you already know[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]A7[/ch]                        [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI told you that a long time ago[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch] \r\nMe and ol' Willie Lordy we've been sold and bought[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]A[/ch]\r\nI guess y'all heard about some kind of system that we fought[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]B7[/ch]\r\nWe ain't the only outlaws just the only ones they caught[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThey tried to run us off but Willie's slow[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]B7[/ch]                       [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI quit running a long time ago[/tab]","plain_text":"[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n \n[Verse] \n\n\n\n\n\n \n[Verse] \n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]","chords":["D","G","A7","E","A","B7"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"A7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,0,2,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,0,2,0]},"B7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,1,3,0,4],"frets":[-1,2,1,2,0,2]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}