when papa played the dobro

when papa played the dobro easy guitar chords by Jerry Douglas

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Fret 3

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Capo
  • G

  • Ab

    4
  • D

  • F

  • C

  • Gm

    3
  • G

  • Ab

    4
  • D

  • F

  • C

  • Gm

    3
  • Verse 1
    Ride this train 
    to any county 

    fair in this land. 

    Now here's a 
    hard -working, 

    happy people. 

    Miss Jones 
    baked the finest 
    pie 

    for the 
    contest this 
    year, 

    and Mr. Brown's 
    got the biggest, 

    fattest old 
    sow you ever 
    saw. 

    And all the 
    kids are eating popcorn 

    and cotton 
    candy. 

    This 
    is Chester, 
    South Carolina 

    and 
    that year at the fair 

    my 
    papa 
    brought us all 
    down 

    in a wagon 

    and on the way down 

    we picked up another family 

    that 
    lived up the 
    creek. 

    I was just a little 
    boy 

    but I remember 
    I kept asking Papa, 

    how much 
    father is it? 

    How much 
    father is it? 

    We 
    had a 
    young heifer tied 

    to the wagon 

    that Papa just 
    knew 

    was 
    gonna take first 
    prize. 

    I didn't 
    have no doubt 

    about that heifer 
    winning first 
    prize 

    but 
    the main 
    thing I was 
    inter

    ested in 

    was something 
    else 

    Papa 
    had under 
    his seat 

    at the front of the 
    wagon. 

    And that 
    was an old 
    dobro 

    that 
    I thought 
    Papa played 

    like nobody 
    else 
    in the world. 

    guess by real 
    musical 
    standards 

    Papa didn't 
    know too much 
    about music, 


    but I'll tell 
    you, 
    that night 
    at the fair, 


    when he played 
    in the dance 
    band, 

    just had 
    to 
    stay awake 
    and sit up 

    there and listen 
    to 

    Papa 
    play 
    the dobro. 

    My 
    papa was 
    hobo 

    when 
    they 
    delivered 
    me 

    We 
    didn't 
    have a 
    doctor 

    cause 
    he 
    couldn't 
    pay the 
    fee 

    But 
    when the 
    gore 
    got too 
    bad 

    to 
    ease 
    his misery 

    Papa 
    played 
    the 
    dobro 
    this 

    way 



    When 
    company 
    would 
    come around, 


    he kept the 
    dobro 
    here 

    He 
    knew he 
    couldn't play 

    the 
    way the 
    other 
    players 
    did 

    Well, 
    the guitar's 
    resonator 

    was 
    a gallon 
    bucket lid 

    But 
    Papa 
    played the 
    dobro 
    this 
    way, 

    and 
    he'd go 
    team, 
    team, 
    team 


    Well 
    now that 
    Papa's 
    gone away, 

    it's 
    hangin' 
    by the 
    flu 

    The 
    top 
    of it's busted, 

    and the 
    strings 
    are 
    rusted too 

    It 
    won't ever sound 
    the 
    way that 

    it did when 
    it was new 

    When 
    Papa played 
    the 
    dobro 
    this 
    way 

    Outro 1
    And 
    he'd go 




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