One Home Run chords by Van Dyke Parks

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Intro 1

In a

Verse 1
D 
little old country schoolhouse
G 
where the children used to go
Em 
A 
There lived a little fella
D 
by the name of Ratcon Joe
A 
D 
One day the teacher called the class
G 
to spell a certain kind of a bird.
Em 
A 
The kind of bird that was a chicken,
D 
and he could not spell the word.
So the teacher called on Ragtime Joe
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Em 
to spell that word for them.
E 
A 
He did not hesitate a bit,
G 
D 
this is the way that he began.
C, that's the way to begin.
G 
H, that's the next letter in.
A 
I, that is the third.
D 
C, now you see something in the bird.
Okay, let's fill it in
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D 
Bm 
Me, you can be the M -C -H -I -C -K
D 
And that there's a way to spell chicken
E 
A 
Bm 
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F 
D 
Bm 
G 
D 
G 
D 
Carson Parks,
he gave a concert
G 
in the old schoolhouse one night
A 
He hired a lot of fellas
D 
who could sing and could recite
But when they pulled the curtain,
G 
everything went wrong, you know
A 
Until one fella loudly called,
D 
let's hear from Ragtime Joe
He sang them Ragtime chicken tunes,
G 
did not do so well
F 
A 
He says, I went a -frost on that,
D 
Bm 
so I guess I have to spill
A 
D 
And then he told the audience,
G 
they had to pose this chicken song
F 
A 
And when he sang these words for them,
D 
he took the house by storm
C, that's the way to begin.
G 
D 
H, that's the next letter in.
A 
D 
I, that is the third.
C, now you're seasoning the bird.
K, fill it in.
G 
With an E, you get near the end.
D 
Bm 
E 
C  -H -I -C -K  -N,
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D 
E 
that there's the way to spell chicken.
A 
E 
Bm 
F 
A 
D 
Bm 
G 
D 
G 
D 
That's the way to begin,
G 
E 
A 
H, next letter N, I, that is the third,
D 
C, now you season it with a bird,
G 
K, fill it in with an E, you get near the end,
D 
Bm 
E 
A 
C  -H -I -C -K, N, now there's
D 
B 
E 
C# 
F# 
The wait has come to an end
Eb 
D 
F 
Bb 
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C 
A 
D 
E 
A 
D 
Let's do it again real soon.
This isn't a franchise operation,
folks.
It speaks to a higher authority.
There is a moral responsibility
in the commodity interest of music,
and this place is uncorrupted.
I think it's uncorruptible,
and I never want to test that.
Just to let you know, I'm very
grateful
Steve Young invited me to play with
him tonight.
He included me in his opportunity.
Thank you, Steve.
When we go back,
I was 22 years old
when I wrote this piece about
Steve Young.
have I admired him?
I don't know what the details
are
and the shrouded in mystery
and if I started to explain it,
it would be like finding the line
between myth and history,
and I really don't know that anymore.
So I'm just going to sing the song
to show you how
much I thought of Steve Young.