Chords for David Allan Coe - Musical Influences [A Live at Billy Bob's Texas Short]

[N] _ [B] My influences _ _ _ _ [Ab] in my life [B] are so far [C] beyond what people could imagine.
I mean, [B] I grew up listening to [G] Spike Jones and [C] the Glenn Miller Orchestra.
And, _ [B] you know, I mean, _ _ so many different things.
The Ink [Db] Spots and the [G] Moonglows and the Temptations and [B] Hank Ballard and the Midnighters
and Chuck Berry and Little Richard and Fats Domino and Alvis Presley. _ _
[Dbm] Hank Williams and Johnny Cash and Ernest Tubb and Bill [B] Monroe and Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs
and Louis Bell Scotti [Eb] and just _ [Ab] goes _ from one extreme to the other, one end of the spectrum to the other.
[Bm] I take things very seriously.
[C] When Marty Robbins died, [B] when Bill Monroe died, [C] _ when Waylon died,
I take a marker and write their names on my forehead and [B] I wear black.
And that night I sing all their songs and pay tribute to them.
I'm [Ab] probably the only musician in the world that does something like that,
pay tribute to other musicians like that, you know.
[Db] _ [Bm] But to me, those people [N] _ _ _ _ [Bm] accepted me for what I was and [Ab] who I [C] was no matter what.
And the greatest example of that is [B] Bill Anderson.
_ [Db] Nobody would have [Bm] ever thought that Bill Anderson [B] and David Allen Coe could have ever been friends
or could have ever made [E] a record together, you know.
[Db] _ [B] But Bill Anderson, I call him up back when I'm at the height of my career.
_ [Ab] And I said, Bill, [Db]
when I was in prison, I used to hear a song you [Ab] wrote called Get A Little Dirt On Your Hands.
And I want to record that song, but [Db] I want you to come in and sing with me.
[C] And he said, sure, no problem.
_ [B] We did the record.
We released it.
It became a number one [N] single.
_ _ [Ab] Bill calls me and says, _ hey, I'm at the Grand Ole [Bm] Opry tonight.
I want you to come out and be my [C] guest.
So I go to the Grand Ole Opry.
The guard stops me at the door.
They won't [N] let me in. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ And [Abm] _
so I'm trying to explain to him who I [N] am. _ _
And he calls somebody and he [E] says, there's some hippie here with long hair.
And [G] _ he says he's a friend of _ _ _ _ [Bb] Bill Anderson's.
And he says, you know, I don't know what to do.
He says, can anybody get a hold [N] of Bill? _ _
_ So the [B] _ main guy comes out and [Ab] takes one look at me.
He [B] goes back and tells, when Bill [Ab] tells him, oh, yeah, you know, he's going to, [Gb] he says,
Bill, we do not have time [N] _ _ _ [B] for you to [C] have this guy as your guest.
_ _ And Bill said to [Ab] them, oh, well, that's fine.
No problem.
I won't play tonight.
I'll be back next Saturday.
[Db] And David will be my guest.
So you got plenty of time to work that out.
[N] _ _ _
[E] And the next Saturday I go back and Bill [C] Anderson's guest on the Grand Ole Opry.
I got four [B] encores.
And when I came off stage, all them people wanted to get their picture taken with me
and invite me back to the Grand [Ab] Ole Opry any [N] time. _ _
_ So _ I have a lot of love and [Ab] respect for Bill Anderson.
So I go from that spectrum to [Bm]
the Uncle Cracker Kid Rock Pantera, [B] you know,
Dead Kennedys, [C] you know, [N] _ _ Hank Williams III, _ _ _ [B] you know.
That's a great case in point, [Ab] you know, Hank Williams III.
Now [C] there's a boy.
I just did some shows with [Db] him.
And he does a half country show [Ab] and a half rock and roll show.
_ [B] _ And he tells you when he's through [F] playing country music, ladies and gentlemen,
they paid me to play here for one hour.
[N] _
_ Now, if you don't like [Bm] what I'm going to play next, you need to get the fuck out of here
because this is what I [B] do.
He takes his hair out of the braid [Ab] and I made _ _ heavy metal all the way.
I mean, you wouldn't even know it was the same guy, same band or anything.
I mean, he's straight up heavy metal, [C] you know, and he's good at it.
_ _ Another great _ [B] songwriter and a great influence on me is Uncle Cracker.
And I do want to talk about Uncle Cracker a little bit.
Uncle Cracker is _ [G] _ _ just [B] a great guy.
He is one of the co-writers on almost all the songs on Kid [Ab] Rock's album.
He's got his own album out called Double Wide and he just had a hit single called Follow Me,
which we're going to be doing for this [G] album.
_ _ Kimberly and I are going to sing that, I think, in the _ _ _ [Ab] live show from Billy Bob's.
[N] But Cracker _ [B] is a great songwriter. _ _
_ _ _ [Am] People ask about the collaboration [Ab] between Kid Rock and David [G] Allen Coe,
and they say, you know, [Am] why do you like this guy?
[Ab] Why do you like Kid Rock? _ _ _
_ Because I see in Kid Rock, I see [Bb] a young [Ab] David Allen Coe, I see a young version of me.
_ All the things that I was doing years ago, [B] way ahead of their time, this [Ab] boy does it.
I mean, I used [G] to ride my Harley Davidson on [Ab] stage.
I used to give people the finger.
All the things that this kid does is stuff that I did back 25 years ago.
[C]
But it [Ab] just wasn't acceptable then.
And _
[Bb] the thing I [Ab] like about this kid is [N] that _ he does not take _ [B] _ [N] all that _ stuff that seriously,
that rock and [B] roll superstar bullshit, _ and he's [Ab] not controllable.
See?
The last thing in the world that anybody [B] that works for Kid Rock wanted to see
was David [G] Allen Coe on tour with Kid Rock.
They did not want that to happen.
[Db] They told him, this ain't going to happen.
[B] He said, no, this is [N] going to happen.
_ [Bm] David [Bbm] Allen Coe is [B] going to be on this tour.
Now, if I've got to cut two songs out of my show or three [G] songs out of my [E] show
to give him room to be on that stage, that's what's going to happen.
[Dbm] He's going to be on this show, gentlemen.
[F] So you figure it out.
This is what we're going to do. _
[G] Well, the first [N] night, _ _ [B] we go out, and unbeknown to me,
I just did my [Db] little 20-minute thing with the guitar before the [B] show starts.
In [E] the [B] middle of a Kid [E] Rock show, he just stops, and [F] he says, you know what?
He said, [B] what do you people know about outlaw country music?
_ He said, let me play you a great song.
He starts singing, You Never Even Call Me By My Name,
[Db] and he calls me out on the [N] stage.
_ We sing it together, and we get to the end, [Dbm] and I say to his audience,
well, tell Kid Rock what happened, and they all scream,
[B] Mama Got Run [Bm] Over By A Damned Old [N] Train.
And [B] he looked at me, and he looked at the guys that worked for him,
and he said, [Bm] tell me this ain't [N] working.
_ _ [B] He said, I know this [N] is working. _ _ _
[B] So [Db] we did those two tours [N] together, _ _
_ and [G] then I'm watching the Grammys the other [N] night.
_ [Dbm] Well, everybody knows the mode of dress [Ab] for the Grammys is [B] tuxedo, black tie, whatever.
[Ab] _ There's my partner with a T-shirt and Levi's [N] on.
_ _ Well, then they got these little cute cards with these little funny jokes on them. _ _
[E] He don't even look at the cute card.
He says, I would like to take this opportunity [N] to _ _ mention [Am] Waylon Jennings,
a [G] great musician that just died.
_ _ And that's why David Allen Coe and Kid Rock are friends. _