Chords for Bill Anderson - "Eight By Ten"

_ _ _ _ Yeah, and then I'm gonna tell [Ab] you a funny story about this.
Carol Lee and Dennis and Nora Lee of the Carol Lee Singers, can we all get together somewhere
and do this?
I'd feel a whole lot more comfortable if we were standing close to one another.
Besides, I want to stand between these pretty ladies in their bright red.
_ [N] _ Sonny Osborn, feel free to play a little banjo on this if you want to.
Very little. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Carol Lee fusses at me all the time because I don't do this song very often on the Opry,
so [Fm] we'll do it here.
Mike, if you and the guys over there will help [G] us.
This is about a photograph.
[Dm] Not the one of [Em] President Truman, but about a photograph.
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ [C] _ _ [F] _ _ [Am] _ _ [Dm] _
_ [F] _ _ [G] All [Dm] that's left of our old [Em] love now is just [Dm] your picture.
_ [C] Eight by ten. _ _
_ _ A [G] souvenir [Gm] of things [C] that might [F] have been.
_ [Dm] _
_ [F] _ [G] My [Dm] lonely world [G] is [Dm] only [C] eight by ten. _ _
_ Eight [Gm] by ten.
_ [C] _
_ _ [F] Eight by ten.
I remember the night [Dm] that you gave me this picture.
[F] _ [G] I ought to, I've [Dm] relived it so many times.
[G] _
[Dm] I remember how I couldn't wait [C] to get home and put it in a frame and tell everybody that
you were mine.
_ _ [F] Because you were mine.
[Gm] _
[C] At least until someone [F] else came along and took you off out of my [Dm] sight.
_ [F] _ [G] Oh, I'm glad I've still [Dm] got your picture.
[G]
Because [Dm] now I can cry [C] on your shoulder every night.
_ Eight [Gm] by ten.
_ [C] _
_ _ [F] Eight by ten.
[Dm] _
_ [F] _ _ [G] My [Dm] lonely [G] world is [Dm] only [C] eight by ten. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [Gm]
It's [E] awful to be jealous [F] of an old picture frame.
But [Dm] I'm jealous of anything [F] that's close to you.
[G] _ [Dm] And that frame's holding [Em] you pretty tight.
[Dm] That's [C] more than I'll ever do. _ _ _
I wish, I wish I could just be [G] the glass in that frame.
[Gm]
And [C] be so close to the [F] lips that I love.
_ _ [Dm] _
[F] Oh, I'm glad I've still [G] got your picture.
But, [Dm] you know, [G] _
[Dm] sometimes a [C] picture's just not enough. _ _
_ Eight [Gm] by ten.
_ [C] _
_ _ [F] Eight by [Am] ten.
_ [Dm] _
_ [F] _ [G] My [Dm] lonely [G] world is [D] only [C] eight by ten. _ _
_ _ [G] My [Dm] lonely world [G] is only _ _ _ _ eight by _ [C] _ ten. _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ Eight by ten.
Thank you all.
I couldn't help but [E] think of our buddy Johnny Russell.
He said to me one time about that song.
He said, he said, sing that song about eating.
And I said, what about eating?
He said, we weren't going to eat until midnight, but we ate by ten.
_ _ [Ab] _
_ _ I know everybody here, we've all had practical jokes played on us.
And I think that's part of what makes this business.
When that song was out back in 1964, _ I went up to Philadelphia because the song had gotten into the bottom part of the pop charts.
And Dick Clark invited me to come do it on American Bandstand in Philadelphia.
When we rehearsed the song, they had me seated at a desk with a picture of a gorgeous movie star in a frame.
And I was supposed to kind of be looking at this throughout the song.
And then towards the end of the song, I was supposed to kind of pick the picture up and really be talking right to the picture.
Well, during the rehearsal and all, it went wonderful.
And there was this gorgeous, beautiful woman looking back at me through the frame.
When the show went on the air, I did not know this, the picture.
They said, well, we're going to lay the picture down on the desk and you pick it up on the second verse.
Well, the second verse, of course, is the part about being so close to the lips that I love and so forth.
So I reached down as serious as I could.
I picked up the picture.
They had taken the picture of the movie star out and inserted a color 8 by 10 of a chimpanzee. _ _ _ _
This is live television.
And I'm sitting there looking at that monkey saying I'm so close to the lips [Ab] that I love.
_ _ _ [B] These clips are great.
But to see full episodes, go to countryroadtv.com.