Chords for 1945 - The French Family Band Grand Ole Opry Debut - 29th March 2023 (Song 2 of 3)

_ Well, thank you so much
_ We're just honored to be here tonight.
I want to tell you a story now
It might take a little while but the story is true when I was a just a kid growing up back in Tasmania
Where the Tasmanian devil comes from it's real folks.
I'll tell you I
Found an old program that was it said Nashville, Tennessee on it.
That's just about all I remember of it
But I remember asking my father
So what's his dad and he proceeded to tell me in 1945 he was just a kid on the farm and
He was tuning the old farm radio in and he picked up the Grand Ole Opry clear as crystal
Never had picked it up before or after couldn't even get the local station, but picked up the Grand Ole Opry
Yeah, he did and they had a competition going for the furthest away listener
So he wrote in and that's how he got that program.
They sent him the sign program.
This is 1945 and
_ He found out later on whether
You know
He just he was told that that was obvious that was the day
Or around the time they tested the first did the first nuclear test and it sent radio signals crazy
and he told me that's why he managed to pick it up and
[E] And
50 years later.
I stood on the stage of the Ryman to watch a Merle Haggard concert and I couldn't help but
Think you know how much my dad would have loved to have been there because he just loved country music and _
I
Rang him next day and told him I stood on that stage where he picked up the Grand Ole Opry
All those years before 50 years before it was
Yeah, and so he ended up writing a song about it and two of the songwriters that we wrote it with are here tonight
Sam Gay and Templeton Thompson absolute legends _ _ _
_ _ _ But yeah, and we wrote the last verse and you'll hear it, but it was always fiction
We always dreamed that it would happen and so tonight it's gonna come true
[G] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ It was like a miracle [D] that night in [G] 45
You were tuning [C] in your radio [D] when the Opry came to life
[C] through the static [G] and crackle
[Am] From halfway [G] around the world.
[C] It came through as [G] clear as crystal
[Am] the great
_ [D] Speckled [A] bird _ _ _
_ _ [G] 50 [C] years had come and [D] gone
Almost [G] to the day
Dad rang you [C] up to tell you that [D] he'd been on that [Em] very stage
[C] In the mother [G] church
We could feel [Am] the timeless [Bm] voices ring [C] and the circle [G] was all broken [Am] as
Mohagat sang
[G] silver
_ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ Well, you finally [Am] got to _
Nashville [D] I can feel
[G] _
I
_ Yes, you made it [Em] here to Nashville
[Am] _ _ [D] _ As we sing I [G] saw the light go dad
_ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ here I [C] am another
[D] Generation [G] down the line.
I
Swear, I [C] feel my granddad looking down on [Em] me tonight
[G] As I step out on that stage
[Am] The Opry [G] comes alive.
I know he's listening like
in
[Am] _ _ [D] 1945 _
_ _ _ Well, you finally [Am] got to _ Nashville [C] I
[D] Can feel you [G] here? _
_ _ _ Yes, you made it [Am] here to Nashville
_ _ [D] _ As we sing I saw the light
_ _ [G] _ Yeah, we are _
[C] Nashville [E] I can feel [G] you with me
_ _ _ Yes, you made [Am] it here to Nashville
_ _ _ [D] To the grand [G] old Opry _ Thank _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] you
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