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Intro: A# F C, repeated twice.
DO MIb
I was thumbin' back from Montgomery
MIb
with a guitar on my back
FA DO
When a stranger pulled up beside me in an antique Cadillac.
DO MIb
Well, he was dressed like 1950, half drunk and hallow eyed
FA DO
Its a long walk to Nashville, would you like a ride, son.
DO MIb
He sat down in the front seat, and turned on the radio
FA DO
and them sad old songs comin' outta them speakers was solid country gold.
DO MIb
Then I noticed the stranger was ghost white pale when he asked me for a light.
FA DO
And knew there was somethin' strange about this ride.
CHORUS
SIb FA DO
He said: Mister can you make folks cry when you play and sang.
DO
Can you pay your dues, can you moan the blues
SOL
Can you bend them guitar strangs.
SIb FA DO
He said: Boy, can you make folks feel what you feel inside,
SIb FA DO
Cause if your big star bound let me warn you its a long hard ride.
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Well, he cried just south of Nashville, and he turned that car around.
he said: (spoken) this is where you get off, boy
cause I'm going back to Alabam'.
I stepped out of that ole Cadillac and I said Mister, many thanks.
he said you don't have to call me mister, Mister.
The whole world calls me Hank.
repeat Chorus once or twice, depending on how you want to play it.
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