Chords for Chuck Wagon Gang - Part 3

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_ _ _ _ _ [G] I think about the gang and think about [Gb] Dad Carter starting this group so long ago.
I'm sure he never [Eb] thought in his wildest dreams it would still be going on today.
[Gb] I don't mimic Dad Carter.
None of us mimic the [B] original gang, but we want to stay true to that style and to that tradition.
[E] It's very obvious [Gb] that Shay [B] is called to be there and this group is called to do what
[Gb] they do because when you sit in the audience and you listen to them, you [Db] sense the presence
of what they're doing.
You sense the presence [Gb] of God.
I got a call from my Uncle Roy Carter [B] and he was my grandmother's youngest brother.
And he asked me would [Gb] I be interested in doing a little singing with the Chuckwagon gang.
I was 22 years old.
I knew that my grandmother had sung in the Chuckwagon gang and I'd seen the pictures
and the videos, but I [B] guess like any young person, hadn't really paid attention.
But I loved to sing and when he called me I said, sure, I'll come [Gb] sing.
I had no idea [B] what I was getting involved in.
_ _ I'd _ rather live in heaven _ than to honor [Gb] silver [E] and gold.
[B] _ When I was able to start singing alto, I began to really [Gb] appreciate my grandmother in a different
light because [F] people would come up night after [Gb] night and talk about her and say, well, you
sound like her or you [Gb] look like her.
And it [B] began every night.
It meant a little more and it meant a little more.
And I began to really understand who she [E] was and who the Chuckwagon gang was.
She was always popping [F] off the ends, Arnie.
And sometimes, you know, it gets on your skin.
_ Well, I'll tell you, you don't look old.
Now, you don't.
You look that kind of monkey shines.
Is this is my big sister.
I know.
And everybody loves [Ab] Rose.
Absolutely.
Well, Sister Rose was the original soprano in the Chuckwagon [Db] gang.
And I've always heard she's quite a character and like to joke a lot, short in [Ab] stature.
And she had these cat eye glasses that she would always wear when she would sing.
That's the world's greatest [Eb] story.
That's the world's greatest story.
Greatest story [Ab] of all.
In footage that I've watched of her, she would she would get up on her toes when she would
go to sing the high part sometimes.
So kind of neat to watch her do that.
But that's the part that I sing as a soprano.
You do have a great touch on that Gibson and you just seem to know what to do exactly when
to do it.
And without it, I doubt they could say, you know, I don't believe the good.
One of the things that sets the Chuckwagon gang apart from from so many other groups,
at least in in gospel music, is the fact that they use a guitar where so many and
traditionally in Southern gospel, they use piano as backup.
You know, when you hear something [B] like, _ [A] _ _ _ [Bb]
well, that's Johnny Cash, Hey, Porter.
There's many, many signature sounds in music like that that when you immediately hear
them, you know, when you hear this.
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There's no question that's the Chuckwagon gang.
Ernest Carter, whose radio name was Jim, he's known as Jim.
He was one of the brothers.
He sang bass and played the acoustic guitar in the early days.
He's the one that created that.
And I'm sure that there was no thought given to it.
They needed the key.
They needed to hear the chord.
So he gave them the chord and they started singing and he backed him up.
When he retired from the group in the early 1950s, Anna's husband, Howard, started
playing the guitar for the group.
One of the finest.
I say it has one of the greatest touches on a guitar of any man I've ever heard.
I appreciate that, Mr.
Howard, you do have and I'm not kidding.
And that's not applesauce.
That makes me feel good.
And he retained some of the same type of sound and style, especially with the strum at
the beginning.
He always had an [G] E flat chord that he would make a full [Bb] E flat chord like this.
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