Biography:
Jerry Jeff Walker (born Ronald Clyde Crosby in Oneonta, New York, on 16 March 1942; died 23 October 2020) was an American country music singer and songwriter. He is best known for writing the 1968 song "Mr. Bojangles".
During the late 1950s, Crosby was a member of a local Oneonta teen band called The Tones. The band traveled to Philadelphia to audition for Dick Clark's "American Bandstand", but were turned down. Members of the band found Dick Clark's
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Hill Country Rain
By Jerry Jeff Walker
TAB'd by Marty LeTendre
[email protected]
C
Sometimes I just wake up hummin'
F C
Feelin' like the world is right
F C
Want to jump right up and take a walk outside
Am
And take in the morning light
F G
Feel the music running through me
F
makes me want to dance
C
Clap my hands & dance
C
Sometimes it just takes my lady
F C
To smile and make my day complete
F
And when she's touching me
C
I feel free and easy to be me
Am F G
Lucky to be alive Feelin' al-right
F F C
Take a walk outside Feelin' al-right
BRIDGE
C Am F G C
People they tell me Im liv-ing too fast
C Am F G C
Slow down now Jerry boy Take it easy let some of life pass
F G C G G C
But I don t know no other way Got to live it day to day
F G C Bb F C
But if I die before my time *When I leave I m leaving nothing be-hind (X2*)
CHORUS
F C F C
Cause I got a feel-ing Its a Feeling that I can t explain
F C Bb F C
It s like dancing naked In that high hill country rain
G F C
I ain't worried 'bout tomorrow I'll get by best I can
D F G
Lovin' is my will to live It makes me laugh , Want to sing and dance
F C
Clap my hands, yeah! Take a chance, Come on and dance
C
Do do do do do do do do (repeat 2x)
Bb C
Do do do do do do do do
Repeat Chorus 2x
By Jerry Jeff Walker
TAB'd by Marty LeTendre
[email protected]
C
Sometimes I just wake up hummin'
F C
Feelin' like the world is right
F C
Want to jump right up and take a walk outside
Am
And take in the morning light
F G
Feel the music running through me
F
makes me want to dance
C
Clap my hands & dance
C
Sometimes it just takes my lady
F C
To smile and make my day complete
F
And when she's touching me
C
I feel free and easy to be me
Am F G
Lucky to be alive Feelin' al-right
F F C
Take a walk outside Feelin' al-right
BRIDGE
C Am F G C
People they tell me Im liv-ing too fast
C Am F G C
Slow down now Jerry boy Take it easy let some of life pass
F G C G G C
But I don t know no other way Got to live it day to day
F G C Bb F C
But if I die before my time *When I leave I m leaving nothing be-hind (X2*)
CHORUS
F C F C
Cause I got a feel-ing Its a Feeling that I can t explain
F C Bb F C
It s like dancing naked In that high hill country rain
G F C
I ain't worried 'bout tomorrow I'll get by best I can
D F G
Lovin' is my will to live It makes me laugh , Want to sing and dance
F C
Clap my hands, yeah! Take a chance, Come on and dance
C
Do do do do do do do do (repeat 2x)
Bb C
Do do do do do do do do
Repeat Chorus 2x
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