Key: D
Introduction: D
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Well I'm a kid with a guitar trying to play Nuages when they ask.
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Where does your style come from?
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I know what you mean, 'cause I learned to sing
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Listening to Blue Yodel number 1.
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We love Hank and Lefty, Bob Wills, Ernest Tubbs and Johnny Cash,
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but if we had to pinpoint the start of who we are we'd go back.
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To Django and Jimmie, Paris and Mississippi.
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A young singing brakeman, a jazz playing gypsy.
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There might not have been a Merle or a Willie,
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if not for Django and Jimmie.
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verse 2
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Through the 20's and 30's Jimmie sang his way to the top,
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despite of those old TB blues.
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Django was a star, he burned up a guitar
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with just two good fingers to use.
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You can't turn back time or put more sand in the glass,
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but sometimes at night, I close my eyes and go back...
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To Django and Jimmie, Paris and Mississippi.
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A young singing brakeman, a jazz playing gypsy.
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There might not have been a Merle or a Willie,
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if not for Django and Jimmie.
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There might not have been a Merle or a Willie,
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if not for Django and Jimmie.
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