Immigrant Shuffle chords by Mark Germino

SimplifiedG · Bm · C · D · Em

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Intro 1

Verse 1
G 
My Un
C 
cle worked on the Rock Island Line
Bm 
C 
He sweat tears of every kind
D 
G 
C 
My granddaddy, he could temper steel
Bm 
C 
He made the tools that built Chapel Hill
G 
D 
G 
D 
A little town, yeah, a little town
G 
C 
My grandmother came from Italy
Bm 
C 
around 1895
D 
G 
C 
Her daddy was a stonecutter
Bm 
Up from Milford,
C 
D 
G 
D 
G 
New Hampshire
C 
D 
G 
They all came over to America
C 
D 
G 
To make a shirt out of a buttonhole
C 
To thy kingdom come,
D 
G 
C 
to thy will be done,
G 
D 
G 
D 
and to let the good times roll.
G 
C 
Some stayed up north to work,
Bm 
C 
some dug a little southern dirt.
D 
G 
C 
My grandmother put a sign out front
Bm 
And   turned her house
C 
into a restaurant
G 
D 
After the war
G 
D 
G 
Yeah, after the war
D 
G 
C 
My dad took a salesman's line
Bm 
C 
Told the boss he was qualified
D 
G 
C 
Kissed my mother on the front doorstep
Bm 
And   set out to qualify
C 
D 
G 
D 
G 
D 
G 
himself
Em 
C 
D 
G 
They all came over to America
C 
D 
G 
To make a shirt out of a buttonhole
C 
D 
To thy kingdom come
G 
C 
To thy will be done

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Verse 2

Never let the good times roll

Interlude 1

Verse 3
G 
C 
Now I don't give false hope,
Bm 
C 
try not to lie, and  I don't vote
D 
G 
C 
But I love this countryside,
Bm 
C 
I'll stick by it till the day I die
D 
G 
D 
Hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey
G 

Verse 4

Cos they all came over to America

Verse 5

To make a shirt out of a buttonhole

Verse 6
C 
D 
Thy kingdom come
G 
C 
Thy will be done
G 
D 
G 
And to let all the good times roll
Bm 
All right, let it roll now.
C 
Yeah.
D 
G 
Bm 
Welcome to the USA. Torino.
C 
Is that German?
D 
G 
Oh, it's Italian.
Bm 
C 
Yeah, we got lots of you here.
D 
D 
G 
Bm 
You spell that with a C or a J.
C 
Spell it with a  G.
D 
Say you're a stonecutter,
G 
Bm 
well, we definitely need you.
C 
Had your vaccine?
D 
Ah, quarantine, three months.
Italian, huh?
C 
Never seen an Italian
yet that couldn't play baseball.
That'd be like a Chinaman
that can't keep a secret.
Or an unfriendly Irishman.
There's no such thing.