Chords for Anthony Burger

[Gb] Coming home _ from _ church one Sunday morning, the choir had sung a song that morning that I never forgot.
I was three years old.
I was going to try to play it on the piano.
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_ _ _ _ _ After picking mom and dad up off the floor, we started looking for piano teachers. _
_ _ Took [B] _ _ us two years to find one.
Nobody wanted a three-year-old.
_ _ I've got a three-year-old.
I know exactly why.
They didn't want me. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Finally, we found a place in Chattanooga, Tennessee called the Shotta Conservatory of Music. _
Started there when I was five years old.
At the age of six, I had my first piano recital.
I couldn't even reach the pedals.
I was scared to death. _ _ _
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_ After staying at the conservatory about eight years, _ _ they wanted me to learn some real music, the classics.
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_ _ I remember one day my mom picked me up at the conservatory and she had the radio on in the car.
I heard a guy from Nashville, Tennessee playing the piano. _ _
I said, well, that's pretty neat.
I'm from Tennessee and I'm learning to play the piano.
So I wanted to learn to play just like him.
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_ _ _ _ _ saw a guy on TV one day who never saw me, but I saw him.
I always wanted to be this guy, but _ somehow never could.
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_ _ _ _ _ [N] night _ _ _ _ _ _ I saw a [D] guy on the Ed Sullivan Show playing the piano one Sunday night.
_ _ I didn't think he could play much, but he's got $48 million in the bank that says he can.
This is the way he played.
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_ [Cm] I was 14 _ _ _ years old.
_ I was playing for a local gospel group back in Tennessee.
One Friday night at the high school, we sang with the Mighty Kingsmen Quartet. _ _ _
A ton of fun. _ _ _ _
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They came to me that night _ and said, that's a pretty good job, kid.
_ _ _ He said, if we ever need a piano player, we'll give you a call. _
I was 14.
I didn't believe it. _ _
Two years later, they called me. _ _ _
They said, we want you to learn a bunch of songs for the Kingsmen.
We want to hire you.
_ Have you drive up to North Carolina next week and get on the bus and go with us. _
_ _ So they sent me a list of songs and I got ready to start practicing.
_ _ Got to looking at my collection of records and tapes, and I didn't have the first Kingsmen tape or record. _ _ _
Because I never did like the Kingsmen. _ _ _
So _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I went to my mom's collection.
_ _ _ She didn't like them either.
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finally, my grandmother, I went over to her house. _ _
_ She had some old _ 78s. _
_ _ _ [G] _ She had the Chuckwagon Gang and the Kingsmen. _ _ _ _
_ _ Jim Hamill was on board. _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ Here _ _ _ I've been studying Chopin.
They want me to play for Shamu.
_ _ [Ab] So _ _ _ anyway, I [C] cranked up that old Victrola and learned this old Kingsmen song. _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ And I got the job.
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