The top ten chords by Don Bowman
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Verse 1
(F major) (G major) Folks, (C major) live in a small (A minor) country town.
No more than a hundred people, (D minor)
maybe two.
We got a gro (G major) cery store
and a service station.
Even got a post office, too. (C major)
See, the post office is
the place where we all (A minor) go
to (C major) kind (F major) of check on the boys
that's gone. (D minor)
Because they keep most
of their pictures
(C major) hanging down there,
and we can (A minor) kind of tell how they're
all getting along. (D minor)
While standing there
looking (G major) over the pictures the other day,
I'd (C major) like to pass on what I
(A minor) heard an old (C major) couple say.
See, (F major) they were standing there
admiring a picture of
probably (D minor) their only son,
(C major) and I heard the old lady say,
Dad, (A minor) look, Johnny's number one. (D minor)
Well, ain't that (G major) something, Papa,
that boy's (C major) as high as you can go,
and they tell me when you're
(A minor) num ber one,
(F major) you're just about the star of the show. (D minor)
And it says (C major) here, Papa,
that J. Edgar Hoover
(A minor) 's looking for our son.
You (D minor) know who he is, Pa,
he's one of (G major) them fellas
from Washington.
(C major) Well, I started to walk over
and then I stopped again
when I heard the (F major) old lady say
I (D minor) heard Johnny had worked his way
up through the (C major) top ten.
She said, (A minor) Pa, he's the most wanted boy
(D minor) in the whole USA. (G major)
Papa Johnny's got something
that (C major) youngin's got in me.
Papa said, (E minor) yeah,
and to think that boy (F major) started out
with nothing but the gun I (D minor) gave him.
Back, don't remember when, (C major)
she said,
Well, Papa, (A minor) we got something
to be proud of. (D minor)
Johnny's number one in (G major) the top ten.
(C major) Well, needless to say, I said nothing,
And I'd probably say the
same thing (F major) again.
What would you have said
(D minor) if you'd heard the old lady say,
(C major)
Johnny's number (G major) one in
the top ten? (C major)
(D minor) (C major) (F major) (C major) (D minor)
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