Grasshopper Mac Clain chords by Jimmy Dean

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Intro 1

Verse 1
G 
 (G major) Me and that Navy ain't speaking.
D 
At sailing, I tell  (D major) you, I'm through.
On the advice of a doc, I got me a shock.
I had to have something to do.
E 
These nerves  (E major) I've got are from
soaking too long
A 
when a ship got hit by a plane.  (A major) 
D 
And right here,  (D major) about four years back,
I met Grasshopper McLean.
G 
The sun  (G major) was a -burning
in the desert red hot,
Em 
D 
and his  (E minor) mother drove in with a flat.  (D major) 
G 
She  (G major) went inside to cool off with a beer,
D 
and I saw her kid in the back.  (D major) 
He lay on the seat in the sweltering heat,
A 
D 
 (A major) with hair the color of flame.  (D major) 
A 
A red  (A major) -headed mite,
but smiling and bright,
was little old Grasshopper McClain.
I fixed her tire
and was toting him around
D 
when  (D major) she asked me how much she owed.
I just laughed and said, oh,
I'll settle for him.
And to my surprise,
A 
 (A major) she drove off down the road.
I figured she'd sober
and come hurrying back.
E 
But for three long  (E major) years, she never came.
A 
And all that time, I  (A major) was mother and dad
to little old Grasshopper McClain.
D 
 (D major) I'd tell him of ships I'd
sailed on the seas
when I put him to bed at night,
and that freckle -faced kid
G 
was sharp as  (G major) a tack
and quick as a mate for a fight.
D 
 (D major) I thought I'd wait till he'd grown a bit
G 
and let him pick out his own name.  (G major) 
One day he came in with a
bug in his hand
D 
and he  (D major) said, Me, Grasshopper McLean.
Oh, he'd mimic my walk
A 
 (A major) and he'd mimic my talk,
D 
like  (D major) my shadow, he'd just tag me around.
He even had to be checked
every time I was checked by the
Navy doc over in town.
The doc would laugh and thump
G 
 (G major) his little old chest
D 
and say, Feller, you're right as rain.  (D major) 
Then he'd turn to me
G 
D 
and tell me that  (G major) I'd be a new  (D major) man,
thanks to Grasshopper McLean.
I guess you wonder why I'm telling you this.
E 
 (E major) Well, that's why I'm here doing time.
A 
D 
 (A major) For a bang and a  (D major) sheriff
A 
and a  (A major) red -headed dame
D 
that  (D major) came to take what was mine.
Ah, but you should have seen
the way he fought.
G 
You could tell that kid was Navy  (G major) trained.
D 
But this  (D major) lonely cell
E 
G 
wouldn't be  (E major) so much like hell  (G major) 
D 
If I only had  (D major) Grasshopper McLean