A Long Time Ago

	  		Capo on the 2nd fret. 
 
Verse 1: 
         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