Hallie Lonnigan chords by Tom Russell

Chords with lyrics

Verse:
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My name is Hallie Lonnigan, I married Walter Jones
  C majorC                        A minorAm
For better or for worse, so said the Reverend Doctor Stone
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But the better times are all used up and the worst times took con- -trol
   A minorAm       FF        Bb majorBb        FF
Then drinkin took my Walter, may the Lord protect his soul

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A- -lone with two young kids to raise out on the western plain
  C majorC                           A minorAm
My children harmonized with wolves and sang just like the rain
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But haulin hay and water were the desperate daily facts
    A minorAm           FF        Bb majorBb      FF      G+G
And the years have carved their memories in the muscles of my back, yeah, yeah

Chorus:
    A minorAm            G+G     FF
Hallie Lonnigan will tell these truths to you
   C majorC              G+G
Hard times the only times I ever knew
   E MajorE           E7E7  A minorAm
Hard lucks the only horse I ever drew
   FF       G+G       C majorC
Hard works the only way I made it through

Verse:
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Then I married for convenience sake a trader from in town
 C majorC                          A minorAm
A augmentedA blacksmith name of Charlie Hawk whod court me on his rounds
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But hed paw me like a wolverine and theres cheatin in his blood
  A minorAm      FF         Bb majorBb           FF
He fell upon my butcher knife and crawled off through the mud

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Well no one was the wiser when old Charlie disap- -peared
  C majorC                        A minorAm
And me and them poor children never shed one single tear
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We can run this place on our own, dont need no drunks or cheats
    A minorAm        FF        Bb majorBb        FF       G+G
And the men they step a- -side now when I walk down Market Street, yeah, yeah

Chorus:
    A minorAm            G+G     FF
Hallie Lonnigan will tell these truths to you
   C majorC              G+G
Hard times the only times I ever knew
   E MajorE           E7E7  A minorAm
Hard lucks the only horse I ever drew
   FF       G+G       C majorC
Hard works the only way I made it through
C majorC                               FF
This land was conquered by brave men, your history books will say
   C majorC                    A minorAm
Proud men upon fast horses drove the Indian a- -way
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My name is Hallie Lonnigan; Ill have you all to know
     A minorAm       FF       Bb majorBb      FF      G+G
That the secret of your historys in a workin womans soul, yeah, yeah

Chorus:
    A minorAm            G+G     FF
Hallie Lonnigan will tell these truths to you
   C majorC              G+G
Hard times the only times I ever knew
   E MajorE           E7E7  A minorAm
Hard lucks the only horse I ever drew
   FF       G+G       C majorC
Hard works the only way I made it through