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Date: 2/25/99; 10:13:07 PM
 From: Terri &/or Brian <aunttee@ctaz.com>
 Subject: "The Habit" (Don Edwards)
 The Habit 
 Poem by Berton Braley,  Music & additional Lyrics by Don Edwards 
 Transcribed and Submitted by: Brian McNeal (kc7rcc@netscape.net)
 Note: 
 Don Edwards actually has two different versions of this song.  This 
 version is from the Don Edwards/West of Yesterday CD and varies from 
 the earlier version on his "Chant of the Wanderer" CD in that he has 
 written the chorus which makes the song sound more commercial.
 
 Don Edwards: Vocal & Acoustic Guitar 
 Tim & Molly O'Brien: Harmony Vocals 
 Rich O'Brien: Acoustic Guitar/Mandolin/6-string Banjo 
 Tom Morrell: Slide Resonator Guitar 
 Randy Elmore: Fiddle 
 Bob Boatright: Fiddle 
 Mark Abbott: Upright Bass 
   
   
   
  
 
 The Habit 
 Poem by Berton Braley,  Music & additional Lyrics by Don Edwards
 
    C               G   F              C 
 I beat my way wherever any winds have blown 
      F                 C        G           C 
 I've bummed along from Portland down to San Antone 
       C            G       F               C 
 From Shady Hook to Frisco, over plains and hills 
     F                C      G                   C 
 For once you get the Habit, you just can't keep still
 
 C                  G      F                 C 
 I've seen a lot of places where I'd like to stay 
   F                 C        G             C 
 I gets to feelin' restless, then I'm on my way 
        C              G       F               C 
 I was never meant for sittin' on my own door sill 
     F                C      G                   C 
 For once you get the Habit, you just can't keep still
 
 Chorus 
   F     C             G - G 
 I ride wherever the wind blows 
     F         C          G - G 
 I'm driftin' like a tumbleweed 
      F     C        Am     G 
 I'm just a wanderin troubador 
   F           G               C 
 A song and my guitar is all I need
 
      C                  G      F                 C 
 I've been in rich men's houses and I've been in jail 
     F                  C       G                C 
 And when its time for leavin', I just hits the trail 
       C             G       F              C 
 I'm a human bird of passage and the song I trill 
    F                C      G                   C 
 Is once you get the Habit, you just can't keep still
 
        C               G       F               C 
 Now the sun is sort of coaxin' and the road is clear 
         F               C       G                 C 
 And the wind is singin' ballads that I just gotta hear 
    C               G     F                  C 
 It ain't no use to argue when you feel the thrill 
     F                C      G                    C 
 For once you get the Habit, you just can't keep still
 
 REPEAT CHORUS TWICE  Repeat last line of chorus