Chords for A Kentucky Treasure-The JD Crowe Story-Part 4

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[C] _ _ _ _ [Gbm] We moved away from Lexington [F] and I lost [D] contact with J [F].D. _ _ _ _ [B] at some [C] point.
[Bb] And the next time I heard of [A] J.D. Crowe, he was [B] playing with Jimmy Martin, [C] doing a fine job [Ab] picking.
He and the Osmond brothers [Gb] had teamed up after _ I left, and that was my first encounter with those [C] guys.
_ I will say this about Jimmy Martin.
_ _ At one point _ _ in his life, for a period [Bb] of about _ _ probably three or four [F] years,
_ he was [C] the best at what he did [Bb] that's ever been. _ _
And I feel like I'm [G] number one on the hit parade [C] of love.
On the hit parade [G] of love, I know [C] I'll never stop.
I [D] got it on my mind before I reach the [G] top.
_ But if [C] I do get faster, I'm really [F] happy to make.
And [G] I know I'm number one on the earth, yeah.
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_ _ _ _ [B] Absolutely the best.
[A] I'm talking [B] about vocally, [A] I'm talking about [Bb] guitar and timing.
_ _ [C] _ And wanting you to do _ [Bb] the right thing.
[C] I went with him [G] in 1956, _ [F] and he was living in Detroit, Michigan at the time.
_ _ And was playing with, _ [C] _ they had also had a barn dance, [D] _
_ _ of all places in Detroit, [B] Michigan, which was kind of odd.
I thought it was a sign.
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And [G] I know I'm number one on the earth, yeah.
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_ And [G] I know I'm number one on the earth. _
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_ _ I said, hello, he said, is this Paul Williams?
[Am] I said, yeah, he said, this is Jimmy Martin, [Bb] _
up in [Eb] Detroit.
_ [Gb] He said, well, I'll tell you why [D] I called.
He said, I want you to go to work for [F] me.
Play the man and sing tenor.
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[B] He said, come on up, catch a bus and [A] come on up.
_ _ And so I did.
[Am] And that was in November, [A] _ _ _ _
1957. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
And [B] he come and [A] got me at the bus station, took me out there where [Am] [A] he lived.
And [D] there was a little [Am] slim red-headed fella [A] there. _ _ _ _
And Jimmy said, [C] I want to introduce you [A] to my banjo player.
This is [Bb] J.D. Crow.
[A] _ Some of the clubs that we played in [Eb] Detroit, _ [B] they're probably [D] gone by now.
They'd [A] be a good thing.
_ _ _ They were rough, a lot of them were.
It was mostly _ _ _ night clubs. _
_ _ _ _ And it was usually _ Thursday, Friday, Saturday nights.
_ _ And you'd start _ _ early evening and finish up _ midnight or later. _ _
But it was just a lot of fun for me back then because I hadn't been to Detroit before.
_ _ And there I was in the big city, big motor city, you know. _ _ _ _ _
But I enjoyed my stay there, when we were there.
In 1958, _ _ _ we got a chance to go [Bb] and audition on [A] the Louisiana Hayride,
_ _ which at that time was _ _ one of the _ big Saturday night _ jamborees.
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WRVA in Richmond had the [B] barn dance, the old Minnie barn [A] dance.
_ Of course, [C] Wheeling had the Wheeling [A]
Jamboree.
And of course, you [Ab] had the Grand Ole Opry, [A] WSM.
But _ _ _ KWKH in Shreveport, Louisiana had the Hayride
_ and [B] had people on there like Johnny Horton and _ James O.
Gwynn.
_ Hank Williams had been there at one [C] time.
Webb [Ab] Pierce had been there at one [A] time. _
[G] And Jim Reeves had come through there at one time. _
[C] At that time, Jimmy's records were [A] doing pretty good.
They were recording for Decca at the time.
At 8 o'clock on Saturday night, _ one of [C] those shows was Coast to [A] Coast
on CBS Radio Network.
The Louisiana Hayride, I remember, was probably one of the finest places
that I really looked forward to playing. _ _ _ _
_ It's kind of hard to explain, but I think [C] everyone there
couldn't wait until Saturday night.
All right, we're going to put Jimmy Martin and his crew to work [Gb] again,
along [B] with the fiddlin' Dobber Johnson.
And we've got [Ebm] old J.D. Crowe and [D] his five-string banjo
[Bbm] to pick a little bit here tonight.
[G] Thank you so much, Frank.
It's awful not [Gb] to be down here at the good old Hayride.
Big out at all you folks here and also you folks [D] listening to us
by the [Em] way of radio.
We'd like to do [Am] that number, [G] _ J.D.,. especially for Tom and Nell and all them listening [Gbm] in. _ Now would [D] you folks like to hear J.D. [Gb] pick one on the five-string banjo? You [E] folks like to hear that, [A] huh? _ _ _ _ _ [G] That ain't enough. That's just a [Bb] few of you. I ask you, did you [E] want to hear him play one? I'm going to play it. _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Fm] _ With my help, J.D.,. you [Gbm] will be able to pick a banjo tune here [G] tonight. _ [Gbm] _ Have you got anybody [Ab] special you'd like to dedicate [Gb] this to, J.D.? [Ab] Nobody's I can think of. [F] Do it for Ken, [Bbm] the band here on stage. They'd like to hear you pick [Eb] too. Okay. Let's do a little trade, four to five. All right. _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ The crowds at the Louisiana Hayride, I think probably as much as there's been a [E] crowd, I'd have to play it. [D] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ Usually when we had the [Gbm] Hayride every Saturday [A] night, _ [Ab] _ _ [Gbm] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ [Gb] I forget how [A] many in hell, but probably a few [Dm] thousand. Jimmy said [D] that we was going _ _ to the _ _ [C] _ _ WWBA, _ [A] _ _ _ the Wheeling [B] Jamboree, Wheeling, West Virginia. _ [Gbm] _ _ _ [A] _ Jimmy mentioned [D] that to Paul and myself about the Hayride and thought about it. Of course, I don't [Gbm] think we wanted to go, but _ he thought [A] probably we _ could get some more work. _ _ It had [Db] got kind of [Ab] slack _ working [A] _ _ _ Oklahoma and New Mexico and Texas and _ around there in [Ab] Louisiana. And [G] also, I think [E] the _ _ [Gbm] concerts were a lot [A] better. _ You had a lot more [E] chance of playing more concerts. So we loaded up and went up there, and [A] it did get better. We did work more. _ _ It was a drastic change. _ Shreveport was Wheeling, West Virginia. _ _ And [E] I never really _ liked it. [A] We got a lot more work. _ _ Of course, the [B] work more, you got a little bit [C] more change, a little bit more jingle, you know. _ It always makes [Am] you feel better. _ We [Gbm] was doing a lot of traveling, and I was getting [Gb] tired, and [Am] _ I didn't like the place anyway. So [Ab] I think all those combinations, _ [Gbm] _ _ _ _ [D] well, I think I changed for a while _ _ _ through what happened. _ _