B
        I don't look the way the average cowboy singer looks
             E
        I'll admit i've taken things i never should of took
                 F#
        You can read a different story in a lot of different books
            E
        But even then you won't really know
                F#               B
        How it was a long time ago


Verse 2:
         B
        Women have been my trouble since i found out they weren't men
             E
        In spite of that i stopped and took a wife now and then
              F#
        They built their fences high but they couldn't hold me in
               E
        I was born with a fire down below
               F#                          B
        And i learned to fly a long time ago


Verse 3:
         B
        Don't ask me about the years i spent out in the rain
           E
        About the ones i spent in love or the ones i spent insane
              F#
        Don't ask me who i gave my seat to on that plane
            E
        I think you already know
           F#                         B
        I told you that a long time ago


Verse 4:(a tone higher)
         C#
        Me and ol' Willie,lordy we've been sold and bought
            F#
        I guess you all heard about some kind of system that we fought
            G#
        We ain't the only outlaws just the only ones they caught
               F#
        They tried to run us off but Willie's slow
            G#                       C#
        I quit running a long time ago