Immigrant Shuffle chords by
Mark Germino

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Key: G major

Intro 1

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

Verse 2

Never let the good times roll

Interlude 1

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

Verse 4

Cos they all came over to America

Verse 5

To make a shirt out of a buttonhole

Verse 6
C C 
 
D D 
 
Thy kingdom come
G G 
 
C C 
 
Thy will be done
G G 
 
D D 
 
G G 
 
And to let all the good times roll
Bm Bm 
 
All right, let it roll now.
C C 
 
Yeah.
D D 
 
G G 
 
Bm Bm 
 
Welcome to the USA. Torino.
C C 
 
Is that German?
D D 
 
G G 
 
Oh, it's Italian.
Bm Bm 
 
C C 
 
Yeah, we got lots of you here.
D D 
 
D D 
 
G G 
 
Bm Bm 
 
You spell that with a C or a  J.
C C 
 
Spell it with a  G.
D D 
 
Say you're a stonecutter,
G G 
 
Bm Bm 
 
well, we definitely need you.
C C 
 
Had your vaccine?
D D 
 
Ah, quarantine, three months.
Italian, huh?
C 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.

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ChordsG Bm C D Em

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