Key: Bb major•
Verse 1
fair in this land.
Now here's a hard -working,
happy people.
for the contest this year,
fattest old sow you ever saw.
This is Chester, South Carolina
and that year at the fair
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in a wagon
and on the way down
we picked up another family
but I remember I kept asking Papa,
to the wagon
that Papa just knew
was gonna take first prize.
I didn't have no doubt
about that heifer winning first prize
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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.
I guess by real musical standards
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but I'll tell you, that night at the fair,
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I just had to stay awake and sit up
there and listen to
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Papa play the dobro.
My papa was a hobo
when they delivered me
But when the gore got too bad
to ease his misery
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way
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When company would come around,
he kept the dobro here
Well, the guitar's resonator
was a gallon bucket lid
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But Papa played the dobro this way,
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and he'd go team, team, team
Well now that Papa's gone away,
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it's hangin' by the flu
It won't ever sound the way that
it did when it was new
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When Papa played the dobro this way
Outro 1
And he'd go
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsBb B F Ab Eb...
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