Another Hard Luck Ace chords by Lacy J. Dalton

• Difficulty: Beginner

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

♫ Intro:
   D
e|-2-----------------------------|
B|-3---0-1-3-1-0-1-3---0-1-0-----|
G|-2-2---------------2-------2---|
D|-0-----------------------------|
A|-------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------|

| D | D | D | D |



♫ Verse 1:
D                              G  D
On a cold and foggy evening in 1959
                F               D
Waylon Jennings nearly lost his life

The Big Bopper talked the outlaw
     G             D
Into giving up his seat
                 C                D
With Buddy Holly on that midnight flight

♫ Chorus:
          G                                D
Well, the paper said it must have been the snowstorm
   G                              D
Or that the pilot made a grave mistake
          G                  F             G               D
Well, the rest all died that night but the lone wolf he survived
                        C                D   D
And I say hat's off to another hard luck ace

♫ Verse 2:
                                 G         D
We were on the road with Haggard back in '85
                        F              D
The year they wrote The Amber Waves of Grain
                           G               D
The Okie from Muskogee was speaking for us all
                           C         G        D
When he wrote that song to bring the farmer’s aid

♫ Chorus:
    G                                   D
But just last month I heard that he got tired
    G                                D
And went away to rest and write some place
     G                  F          G           D
Tell Merle we're on his side cause he and Mama Tried
                        C                D
And I say hat's off to another hard luck ace

Post-♫ Chorus:
G                            D
Some of them are with us and some of them are gone
C                                    A
Some of them are out there somewhere barely hanging on
G                         D
Each one is a treasure no one can take his place
                        C                D
And I say hat's off to another hard luck ace

♫ Solo:
   D
e|-2-----------------------------|
B|-3---0-1-3-1-0-1-3---0-1-0-----|
G|-2-2---------------2-------2---|
D|-0-----------------------------|
A|-------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------|

| D | D | D | D |

♫ Verse 3:
                              G            G
I remember meeting Janis in a bar in Santa Cruz
                     F           D
With a dealer she pretended to ignore
                                            G                  D
She was swiggin' southern comfort and every time her glass ran low
                   C                   D
The man behind the bar poured out some more

♫ Chorus:
      G                                 D
And I saw the dealer slip her something quickly
       G                                D
Do you spose he knew she had no time to waste
             G                F        G                  D
And when she stumbled for the door and revved up that old Porsche
                           C                D   D
Well, I said hat's off to another hard luck ace

♫ Bridge:
N.C.
They say Hank Jr. fell off of a mountain
N.C.
Said he'd never walk or sing no more
          D                                 G
Well, the devil made the deal but you don't cheat the man of steel
    D                C           D
And Hank just had to even up the score

♫ Chorus:
    G                          D
Now some called it a family tradition
G                                 D
Others say that he just fell from grace
                 G            F             G
Well, you should see Bocephus now Lord he'd do his daddy proud
          D             C                D
And I say hat's off to another hard luck ace

Post-♫ Chorus:
G                            D
Some of them are with us and some of them are gone
C                                    A
Some of them are out there somewhere barely hanging on
G                         D
Each one is a treasure no one can take his place
                        C                D   C
And I say hat's off to another hard luck ace

♫ Outro:
D             C                D   C
Hat's off to another hard luck ace

♫ Solo:
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            Hard luck ace