Use single note fillers between verses and choruses.
The picking parts are relatively easy to pick up from the song.
I am not a musician, but this song's chords were not on line, so I did the best I could to figure them out.
I also found that in the key of C, the G notes in the choruses over the "Ooh" and "Yeah" sound a little
better done as an F chord on the 3rd fret.
Please feel free to submit or edit using real music science!
[Verse 1]
C G F C
May the wind be at your back and the world sit at your feet.
F C G7 G G7
May you waltz across Wy-oming with a rose clutched in your teeth.
C G F C
May the answers to your questions fall like raindrops right on cue.
F C G7 C
May you set up shop in Heaven 'fore the devil knows you're due.
[Chorus 1]
G C F C F
Ooh, here's to love, here's to life. All the fair and tender ladies
G G7
and the plain dirt farmer's wife.
G C F C F
Yeah, here's to you, here's to me, some ol' mad dog mountain flyboy
G G7 C
and the kid from Ten-nes-see.
[Verse 2]
C G F C
May your nights be filled with laughter and your days with honest work.
F C G7 G G7
May you wake up smelling roses when you're face down in the dirt.
C G F C
If you had the sense to come in when the storm clouds start to grow,
F C G7 C
then you wouldn't be my right hand and the best friend that I know.
[Chorus 2]
G C F C F
Ooh, here's to life, here's to love. When your heart beats like a lion
G G7
and your shoes fit like a glove.
G C F C F
Yeah, here's to you, here's to me, some ol' mad dog mountain flyboy
G G7 C
and the kid from Ten-nes-see.
[Verse 3]
C G F C
May you always stay in touch with the things that keep you young.
F C G7 G G7
and when you're staring at in-justice, may you never bite your tongue.
C G F C
May the bear tracks in your future find you downwind in a glade,
F C G7 C
where the grass as green as absinthe, comes in forty different shades.
[Chorus 3]
G C F C F
Ooh, here's to love, here's to life. All the fair and tender ladies
G G7
and the old fishmonger's wife.
G C F C F
Yeah, here's to you, here's to me, some ol' mad dog mountain flyboy
G G7 C
and the kid from Ten-nes-see.
G C F C F
Yeah, set 'em up, drinks for free. It's the mad dog mountain flyboy
G G7 C
and the kid from Ten-nes-see.
