A Song Was Born

Capo: 3rd fret

[Intro]
D G D  D  D  D
 
 
[Verse]
              D                        D
Haggard on a houseboat, trying not to sink
                 G                                        D
Wonderin' if he oughta float back, or just stay here and drink
            A                                 G7
He found a guitar 'fore he found that Shasta shore
            D
A song was born
 
 
[Verse]
              D                         D
Willie on an airplane, brown bag and a pen
        G                                       D
Flying high thinking 'bout being on the road again
           A                               G
Tried her out on a crowd down at John T. Floore's
            D
A song was born
 
 
[Chorus]
       G
Outta real life, outta real love
     A
The best ones you can't make up
    Bm                   A                   G
It just means more when you've been there before
 
       G
Outta hard times, outta heartbreaks
         A
Hitch a good rhyme to a mistake
          Bm                  A              G
Then you pour those feelings out over three chords
            D   D   D
A song was born
 
 
[Verse]
      D                         D                    D
I've wrote 'em in the Carolina mountains, on a Cabo beach
      G                                  D
In a thousand rooms in Nashville, Tennessee
      A                              G
On a Bitterroot River, Montana back porch
            D
A song was born
 
 
[Chorus]
       G
Outta real life, outta real love
     A
The best ones you can't make up
    Bm                   A                   G
It just means more when you've been there before
 
       G
Outta hard times, outta heartbreaks
         A
Hitch a good rhyme to a mistake
          Bm                  A              G
Then you pour those feelings out over three chords
            D    D
A song was born
 
 
[Instrumental/Solo}
G     G  F
 
 
[Chorus]
       G
Outta real life, outta real love
     A
The best ones you can't make up
    Bm                   A                   G
It just means more when you've been there before
 
       G
Outta hard times, outta heartbreaks
         A
Hitch a good rhyme to a mistake
 
          Bm                  A              G
Then you pour those feelings out over three chords
 
          Bm                  A              G
Then you pour those feelings out over three chords
 
 
[Outro]
            D  D  D  D
A song was born
 
            D  D  D  D
A song was born