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[Verse 1]
        D                                       D
Spending my life in a cold hard bar-room
             C                          D
Drinking that long black whisky down
        D                                       D
I play the guitar, for me it's a living
        C                                       D
Well, I know, just a hanging-around
        G                                       D
Dancing girls, oh, they drive me crazy
        G                               D
All they want is a fancy name
D                               D
Don't change my ways , I might not make it
                        C                       D
That's the fate of a fool and a guitar man

[Verse 2]
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Yeah, been down to the palace of pleasure
        C                               D
Honky-tonk, where I come from
        D                               D
Smoke's so thick I can't imagine
        C                                       D
Wine flows free by the rule of a gun
                    G                           D
One of these mornings it'll come up Sunday
                G                               D
I won't have a good time again
                D                               D
That time ain't now, it's a whole new dream
                        C                       D
That's the fate of a fool and a guitar man

[Solo]
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[Break]
                G                       D
One more night, one more dollar
                G                       D
One more song, can you do it again
D                       D
I don't know, I may not make it
                        C                       D
That's the fate of a fool and a guitar man
                G                       D
One more night, one more dollar
                G                       D
One more song, can you do it again
D                       D
I don't know, I may not make it
                        C                       D
That's the fate of a fool and a guitar man