Chords for Chet Atkins

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All right.
[N] _ Thank you very much. _ _ _ _ _
Thank you very much.
Chet, welcome to the show.
Thank you very much.
We're going to move these microphones around a little bit, Watson, so it don't matter if it makes a little bit of noise.
I'm sorry I was holding my guitar so I couldn't applaud, and I really felt like it.
That was terrific.
You know, this is the first.
I've known you for years and years, but I don't think we've ever played together.
This will be the first time, that's true.
And I'm sure going to enjoy it.
I enjoyed the rehearsal, anyway.
Well, so did I, Chet. _
I've always looked forward to the time when we would be able to do some playing [B] together,
because I'm one [A#] that _ [Bm] _
tries [G#] to keep learning, and I know I'm going to pick up some good stuff here today from you,
and I've already done that.
I remember spending _ many hours listening to your records, trying to pick up some of those boogie licks you used to play.
Well, _ _ that's a two-way street.
Your style is certainly unique, and I guess the most copied style in the world, and you do a fantastic job.
Well, I didn't know any better.
You know, I was raised out on a farm, and I [N] didn't have anybody to play with, so _ that's how it happened.
Had to carry the rhythm and the lead and everything.
Beautiful accident.
Right.
You know, Chet Atkins, of course, is a world-renowned guitarist.
First and foremost, he's an artist, and then he's a businessman.
Chet, I've said this to you in private through the years, a time or two.
I'm real proud of you.
You've always been a credit to the industry.
You've always been a man of integrity.
You've helped people along the way.
You've been a good, astute _ man for the company you've worked for, and I'm just proud that we've been friends through the years, and it's good that we're going to pick together a little bit now.
Thank you, Arthur.
I enjoy helping young people get started and talented people, you know.
I get a great thrill out of that because I know how tough it is to get started, and you do too.
It took me, I was about 30 years old before I ever got it going, get the pieces to fit together.
So I know how [Em] tough it is, and I like to help young people when I can, but I'm not doing that too much anymore.
I'm playing guitar more.
Right, and I don't know, you're playing guitar better too, Chet.
[F] _ Well, I try to keep learning, but there's so many young kids that play a lot better than I do, so you've got to work about twice as hard to keep up with them.
You do, they've just got the ability, and they do come along fast.
That's right.
You play a great golf game, Chet.
I know _ on this particular program you just brought in a first place plaque that you won just a couple of days before.
I had four partners, and they _ were better players than I.
They were great players, and so they helped out.
I helped on a few holes, you know, it was a team effort, but it was fun.
You know, if you play it enough [D] times, you'll win one eventually.
You got to.
You know, Chet, I'll ask you a question about the business.
Not only have you been a great artist and sold millions of records, singles and albums, _ you've guided RCA in their national operation for many years.
_ Do you see any particular trends right now in the field of music?
I wish I knew, Arthur.
I guess it's going to go the same way it's going.
I think country music is going to merge with pop music, and that will go on and on until we'll have one music.
And then people will get sick of that, I think, and they'll go back to pure country music like [F#] Johnny Cash and Porter Wagner and Earl Haggard and people like that.
That's what I suspect will happen, but if I knew, I'd be a genius [F] and I'd be very rich, of course.
[C] Yes, you would.
And you're not bad the way you are.
Not _ _ _ as rich as you.
We're all thankful, but we've worked hard, haven't we?
We sure have.
Chet, we said we'd never play together, and we rehearsed [G] together a little bit while ago.
Let's show the folks what we rehearsed.
[A] Let's play an [C] old tune that I've played all my life, and I'm sure you have too, and [G] one of my favorites.
It's called Sweet Georgia Brown.
And I'll play the first [Cm] chorus, and you play one.
I'll play the second one.
And then we'll do one together on the end.
That'll be interesting.
All right, yeah, it will.
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