Chords for Chet Atkins, Merle Travis "Nine Pound Hammer"

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[E] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ Yeah, my stepdad used to come home slightly south about twice a week,
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play Blind Lemon [G] Jefferson on the phonograph all that long.
_ That was one of my first finger-picking [C] influences, I guess.
And [G] then later on, Merle, of course, was a big influence.
_ _ _ I think Merle was [C] inspired by Ike Everly [G] and Mose Rager. _
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_ _ _ [G] _ Well, I first met Mose, he was a coal miner in Drixburg, Kentucky. _
Him and Ike Everly, well, him and Ike Everly [D] run around together,
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they're still young [Em] men, you might say, in their, I [C] imagine, early 60s.
_ [G] _ They run around together and played _ thumb and finger style,
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and [G] wherever they was, I always tried [D] to manage to be there.
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_ _ _ _ Ike was an awful [Gm] good-looking fellow, and _ [G] had blond, wavy [D] hair.
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Mose was a tall, _ sandy-haired fellow that laughed at [Gm] everything, about everything.
[G] _ _ [D] Still does.
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_ _ _ [Em] _ _ They [C] never took time to, [G] I wouldn't say take [D] time,
I never had nerve enough to [G] ask them to show me anything.
I'd just hang around and [E] watch how they'd done it, and go home and try it [G] myself.
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_ _ _ [G] They used whatever guitar they could get.
I remember the time that Mose didn't even own a guitar.
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He would borrow a guitar to keep it a while, [E] and borrow somebody [G] else's guitar to keep it a while.
And _ _ Ike, I think he had a homemade [D] guitar, the Sunfella [G] down on Green River.
[G] _ _ So [Em] they were extensivists, they [G] never [D] had [G] their hands on one.
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