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Legends

Aaron Watson

RockMedium for beginners5 chords

How to play it

Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.

D××
Am×
C×
G
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Chords & lyrics

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Intro  D  Am   C   G
 
hide this tab    D                        Am                       C                        G 
e|-----0h2--0--0h2--------|------------------------|------------------------|------------------------| 
B|-----3-------3----------|-----0h1--0--0h1--------|------------------------|------------------------| 
G|------------------------|-----0h2-----0h2--------|----------0--0h2---0----|----------0-------------| 
D|-0----------------------|------------------------|-----0h2----------------|-----0h2-----0h2---0----| x2 
A|------------------------|-0----------------------|-3----------------------|------------------------| 
E|------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|-3----------------------| 
 
verse 1 
         D                        Am 
Willie's riding shotgun, Waylon's sleepin' in the back 
      C                                     G 
Billy Graham is preaching about Jesus Christ with the Man in Black 
         D                         Am 
Lennon's talking politics, Dylan's mumblin' on his phone 
    C                                            G 
Ol' Kristofferson says turn it up Merle that's a Tom Petty song 
 
Interlude 
D     Am  C  G 
  Yeah 
 
verse 2 
    D                             Am 
No, Elvis ain't dead, he just got tired of the velvet and the press 
             C                                      G 
He's hangin' out with Emmylou and Gram Parsons on a boat out in Key West 
    D                             Am 
And speaking of Memphis, the best blues band in town 
            C                                          G 
Plays every Tuesday night, Stevie Ray and Jimi tune it up and burn it down 
 
D                             Am 
  Just like my heroes, I'm as free as the wind 
C                            G 
Singing those old songs just like they did back then 
         D                 Am 
Some are here and some are gone 
           C                         G 
Old habits die hard and legends live on and on 
 
verse 3 
    D                        Am 
Somebody said they saw Janis Joplin and Kurt Cobain 
     C                                    G 
At a little dive thirty miles outside the east side of L.A. 
   D                           Am 
Sinatra and Sammy Davis, Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper 
        C                                   G 
Are all hangin' out at Night Hawks drinking whiskey with Eddie Hopper 
 
D                             Am 
  Just like my heroes, I'm as free as the wind 
C                            G 
Singing those old songs just like they did back then 
         D                 Am 
Some are here and some are gone 
           C                         G              D    Am 
Old habits die hard and legends live on and on and on 
             C    G 
Legends live on 
 
Bridge 
      D                                 Am 
I had dream one night, one day I was at this South Texas café 
        C                             G 
Playing 42 with Townes Van Zandt and Ernest Hemmingway 
       D                                 Am 
We had Hank on the jukebox, burning that pipe tobacco slow 
       C                                                G 
My ol' man chimed in and said, "Kids these days need to dig deeper to find their soul" 
D                     Am 
  Can I get an amen? 
                         C                        G 
Dig deeper to find your soul, better pick up that shovel and get to work 
 
D                            Am 
  Just like my heroes I'm as free as the wind 
C                            G 
Singing those old songs just like they did back then 
         D        D/C  D/B Am 
Some are here and some are gone 
           C                         G 
Old habits die hard and legends live on and on 
D                            Am 
  Just like my heroes I'm as free as the wind 
C                            G 
Singing those old songs just like they did back then 
         D                 Am 
Some are here and some are gone 
           C                         G              D 
Old habits die hard and legends live on and on and on 
             Am               C 
Legends live on, legends live on 
             G             D 
Legends live on and on and on 
             Am               C 
Legends live on, legends live on 
             G             D 
Legends live on and on and on 
    Am     C      G 
And on and on and on 
 
Outro 
D  Am  C  G  x3 
 
 
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Chord set

D · Am · C · G · B

Practice tip

Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.