Chords for A Kentucky Treasure: The JD Crowe Story Part 9

[G] _ _ _ I know a _ _ _ [C] little song
[G] _ _ _ _
It's taking away my love _
Shed a tear
_ _ Keith _ _ _ _ and Jimmy Goodrell worked together in a band years ago
_ _ called The Country Storer.
He'd been with Ralph about long enough this second time around
and was getting itchy.
I left you this morning
[C] And she left [G] me faded
_ Now I'm a-rockin' around the _ _ _ _
_ _ _ He didn't think a lateral move to another bluegrass band
was what he really wanted to do
if indeed he was going to make any kind of a change at all.
It's taking away my love _ _
And _ _ [Am] I always [Em] knew he liked country.
Every time [D] he'd come on [G] our camper
we'd get there and he'd sing
[C] songs, George Jones, Merle Ager, Blitz, you know.
Of course, that's what [F] I like too, so.
[C] My pitch was that Crow had already used a steel guitar and [Am] drums
on his previous album, You Can Share My Blanket.
_ [E] _ And he would be [Am] looking at an opportunity
[F] to record with these instruments on [C] the next [G] project as well. _
[C] That seemed to get his attention.
[E] [F] So, he did quit and I think
_ [G] in fact we were on the [Bb] same show
[C] _ _ [Dm] [C] somewhere in Maryland, I think.
I do not remember [F] where it was.
[C] But there [D] was a bunch of acts [G] on the [E] show.
We were [C] there, Ralph Stanton was there.
And that was Keith's last show with Ralph.
[Eb] _ [Bb] And he rode back, when we came back home,
we left at night and Keith rode back [C] with us.
[Gm] So, that's how Keith came to be in the New South.
[Eb] I leave here [Bb] today _
I leave in [F] a [Cm] hurry
_ _ _ _ _ [F] Probably is [Bb] one of the finest singers [F] I've ever [Bb] listened to.
He was [Cm] unique.
[Bb] He was a singer's singer.
_ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
I've always thought that J.D. gave him that.
He gave him the [Eb] reach to reach that [Bb] star
when he _ OK'd the Somewhere Between album.
That was [Cm] probably [Bb] the thing
[Eb] _
that helped [Dm] him get his contract _ _ [Cm]
with RCA at the [Bb] time.
And there again, I knew what [Eb] was going to happen.
[Dm] _ [Cm] _ _ [Bb] _
_ I hated to lose him as a lead singer,
but I knew where he belonged. _ _ _
And if I could be of any help to do that,
then that's what I wanted to do.
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Keith was so well respected _ _ as a singer,
even when he was in bluegrass,
_ _ that we would go to [Bm] Nashville
_ _ [E] and [A] lots of times it was The Who's Who
was in the recording studio listening to him sing. _ _
_ _ _ I mean, sometimes it would be surprising
who'd walk in to listen to him record.
[B] I was [Gbm] always aware _ [Dbm] _
[B] of Keith's problems.
_ [E] I knew that going in.
_ _ _ But there again, I [A] thought, well, maybe this would help him.
_ He got to a [E] place that he wanted to be
and people really cared about him.
_ _ [B] _ _ _ [Gb] _
[B] And Lord knows I did,
and [E] told everybody in the band.
_ And I [A] knew he had a problem. _
_ _ _ Of [Gbm] _ [E] _ _
course we did all we could, _ but it didn't work.
You [B] know, the good Lord works in mysterious [E] ways,
and it just wasn't to happen.
It just didn't happen. _
But he had the talent.
_ [B] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
He had the talent. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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