Chords for 1987 Roy Bookbinder

_ _ _ _ _ A little higher.
_ _ That's good.
A little bit.
Thank you very much.
Boy, it's nice to see so many people out there. _ _ _
_ _ _ I guess you're having fun.
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ [E] _ _
_ _ [N] Yeah.
_ I once had fun.
It was nice. _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ I'd like to [A] start off my program with an old-time number I've been doing for many years.
[N] A song I got from my friend Pink Anderson.
Pink Anderson was born and raised and died in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
He wished he could be here tonight, but he's dead.
_ _ _ _ I met Pink Anderson a long time ago, and it's a long story, and I ain't gonna tell it to you. _ _ _
_ But Pink told me before he died, he said,
Roy, that's what he always called me.
I said, Pink.
_ _ He said, you know them old songs of mine that you can _ almost play right? _
I said, yes, sir.
He said, I'm giving them to you.
They're yours now.
You just tell people Pink Anderson _ used to pick a guitar and sing them,
and he wished he could be there.
_ But he's dead, like I said. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ When he heard me sing this song, he couldn't believe anybody still played this.
He says, what in the world are you singing that kind of music for?
I said, I love it.
He says, you do?
I said, yes, sir.
And they pay me to sing it?
He says, they don't.
_ _ I said, not much, but someday. _ _ _ _ _
We've become good friends.
I told him.
I says, Pink.
He said, Roy.
I said, what are you doing down here at my house anyway?
I said, I drove 36 hours looking for you.
He says, do I owe you money?
I said, no.
_ _ I owe you money.
He says, how much?
I said, $50.
He said, well, give it here.
So I pulled off my _ $50 bill for my roll of ones,
and he looked at it and snapped it, put it in his pocket,
and then he inquired how it come to be that I owed him so much money.
I said, I made a record of one of your songs.
_ He said, was it a hit?
I said, you be the judge.
That a lot of money?
He said, I guess. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ [A] We've become [Gb] good friends.
It's a long story.
Someday I'll tell it to you.
[A] _ _ [B] _ _ [G] _ _
[A] _ _ _ [E] _ [D] I just want to tell you about a man named [G] Boone.
His home was down in [D] Tennessee.
_ _ He made his living.
[B] He was stealing chickens [Bm] and anything that [A] he could see.
[D] _ Why, that _ Popeye's man, I said, he runs so fast
[G] that his feet never stayed [D] in a row. _
[G] When a freight [Ab] train [Dm] passed, it didn't [B] matter how fast,
he'd [Gb] always get on board.
He [D] was a _ traveling _ man.
_ [G] _ Certainly was [D] a traveling man.
_ You know he was [B] the travelest man [E] that ever was [A] in that land.
_ [D] _ _ _ _
_ Traveled everywhere, [G] known for many miles [D] _ around,
_ [Gm] but he didn't [Eb] get caught [D] in it, never [B] got a whoopin' till the [Gbm] police [D] shot him.
[E] You know that the [D] police shot that man with a rifle. _
_ [Gm] The bullet went through [D] his head. _
_ _ People, they were coming [B] from miles around to [E] see if that man [A] was really [D] dead.
The telegram down south where his mama lived,
[G] she was all upset [D] with tears.
_ [Gm] She walked [Abm] up and opened [D] up the [B] coffin lid, [Gbm] but that fool had [Bm] _ disappeared.
_ _ [D] _ _ _
Traveling man.
_ _ [G] Certainly _ [D] was a traveling man. _
He was [B] the most _ _ _ _
[E] _ ever [A] in that land.
[D] _ _
_ _ _ Traveled everywhere. _ _
[Gm] He was known for many [D] miles around,
_ [G] but he didn't [F] get [D] caught in it, never [Eb] got a whoopin' till the police shot him down.
[C] [D] Now, the boy went to the spring one day [G] to get a [D] pail of water.
The distance that the [B] rascal had to go [E] was about a [A] mile and a quarter.
[D] _ He got there and got his water, started back.
[G] You know he stumbled and fell [D] down.
_ [G] Well, he ran back to [D] help.
Got himself [B] another bucket, caught the [D] water, forward, touched the ground.
He was a, _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] certainly _ was [D] a traveling man.
He was [Dbm] the [B] most _ _ _ [E] ever was in [A] that, _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
everywhere.
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ [G] But he didn't [Ab] get caught [D] in it, never [B] got a whoopin' till the [D] police shot him down.
Picket road. _ _ _
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[E] _ _ _ [A] _ _ [D] _ _ _
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[Gm] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ [A] _ _ [B] _ _ _
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You all heard about the Titanic ship?
_ _ [G] He was on it when it [D] was sinking _ down.
Standing out by [Bb] the railing, had [Bm] his _ [A] head hung [D] down.
_ When that man jumped _ overboard, [G] everybody said that he was [D] a fool.
_ [G] But [Abm] about two [D] minutes right [B] after that, while [Gbm] he was shooting dice in [D] Liverpool,
he was a, _ _ _ that's right, he [G] certainly was.
_ [D] _ _ He _ must have [B] been, _ _ _
_ [E] several, _ _ [A] _ _ _
[D] _ _ several, _ _ _ everywhere,
_ [G] knows a man in [D] my town.
_ [G] But he didn't [Abm] get [D] caught in it, [B] never got a whoopin' [E] till the [D] police shot him down.
[Dm] _ Well, now the police caught [D] this traveling man at last.
[G] They had him up to hang [D] one day.
_ _ The jury man [B] all asked that man [E] just what did he have to [Gb] say.
[B] _ [D] He said the jury man would say, well bow their [G] heads, bow their [D] heads in prayer. _
[G] And then he [Eb] crossed one leg and he [B] winked one eye, went [Gbm] up through [D] the air.
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