Dialogue chords by Johnny Cash
Verse 1
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How did Pop Carter,
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which is June's father,
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Gm
Mama, how did he celebrate Christmas
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Em
when y 'all first married?
D
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Gm
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Am
When we first married?
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F
Mama, he didn't have a
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Bb
great big old copper kettle
somewhere hid up in the
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mountains, did he?
Gm
June can tell you that story, John.
But I will tell you that he used to go
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buy a bushel of apples
Gm
and a bushel of oranges
G
and fruit like that for the girls
and he divided it in three ways
Gm
F
and they could do what they wanted to
with it.
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They wanted to give it away, okay.
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They couldn't have the rest of the others,
they had to,
F#m
theirs had to last them through Christmas
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an d, you know, they couldn't
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Gm
go to one of the other girls
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and say, hey, give me some of your fruit,
mine's all gone.
I want to tell you that story
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about how you ask about the
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celebrating.
Back years ago,
they didn't have too much to celebrate
with up in that country
unless you made your own.
Am
G
And my father, somewhere had him
the dandiest copper kettle
with little pipes going out all over it,
F#m
somewhere up in the hills.
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uncle knew him.
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And my grandmother Carter was
quite a woman
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and she never said one word to my daddy
but she was always going into Clinch Mountain
hunting wood
and dragging it out on her back
and she came out of there one day
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dragging that great big old fork
and stick with a copper kettle
G
right on the end of it
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and she was my father's name
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was Ezra Carter
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and she'd say Ezra said oh Ezra said look Gear Esri said,
I found the dandiest copper kettle
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for making apple butter.
Gm
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And he nev er said a word.
We always had good apple butter.
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