The Real Buddy Holly Story chords by 
Sonny Curtis 
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Key: E major•
Verse 1
E
B
E
Esus4
D
E
Esus4
E
I just came down
Esus4
to see the Buddy Holly story.
E
Em
I guess it don't matter none
E
B
but they told it wrong.
G#m
A
So I'm going to try to tell you
C#m
F#m
what really happene d
E
B
But it's go ing to be tough to tell a story
E
Esus4
that long in a song
E
So I'll just kind of relate
Esus4
a few of the high spots
E
There's so many low spots
B
A
B
I know you don't have the time
G#m
A
Remem ber they had a whole movie
C#m
F#m
to tell their story
E
But all I got is a song
B
E
and my story's got to rhyme
F#
So here we go
B
We had a good country band
and I played the fiddle
Buddy played the guitar
F#
and he used to play the banjo some
B
We harmonized like Bill Monroe
E
and the Bluegrass Boys
B
Bob wore my hat
F#
B
and played the flattop with his thum b
We played dim joints
and had a lot of fun with the women
We squigged on bootleg beer
F#
and played Nixon for some
F#m
F#
B
We got our picture in the paper
with our eyes covered up
E
They said her music
A
made the kids do sin ful stuff
Bm
We were crazy back then
B
F#
B
G#
but we sure had lots of fun
C#
Then Elvis came along
B
and nobody just loved him
F#
C#
But I couldn't tell where rock and
G#
A
C#
roll was coming from
But I stuck around for someone had to play
F#
F#m
C#
like Scotty Joe B. played the bass
G#
C#
A
and J .I. played the drums
D
Well I grew up and had to
go out and make a living
I picked a slim Whitman tour
A
and I wound up on the road
D
And them good old boys
G
began to make some noise around Texas
D
And he got hot as a pistol,
A
D
B
a pickin' and a rockin' road
E
But that'll be the day came much
Esus4
too soon for Buddy
E
He was a good old boy
B
and he had a good Christian soul
G#m
He never knocked nobody
A
down in his life
C#m
He loved us all and he
F#m
treated us right
E
And you know the levy ain't dry,
D
A
an d the mu sic did n't
Am
F#dim
die
E
Cause well they hardly live
B
every time we play rock and
Outro 1
roll
E
D
A
Bsus4
B
E
A
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsE B Esus4 D Em...
E
B
Esus4
D
Em
G#m
A
C#m
F#m
F#
Bm
G#
C#
G
Am
F#dim
Bsus4
Capo: 2
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