Chords for David Holt Interview: Doc Watson guitar style Beaumont Rag

_ _ _ _ _ _ How did the guitar come into your life?
One of my brothers, my brother Lenny, borrowed
_ my cousin Spencer's guitar.
He'd ordered him one [F#] from Montgomery Ward and he borrowed the thing and we kept it a month, I guess.
One morning I was sitting by the fire fooling with that thing _
[A] and Dad
_ _ [G#] finishing his breakfast and he [F] turned [G] around and said,
Son, you'll learn to play a tune on that thing by [G#] the time we get back home.
We'll [A] take the money out of your piggy bank and I'll finish it out and we'll buy you a guitar Saturday.
I fooled him, an old boy at school, went to school with Paul Montgomery, had showed me a few chords. _
When
_ _ _ Dad got back home, I could play the chords and
_ sing When the Roses Bloom in Dixieland.
So he had to keep his word. _
So when did you start, you know, figuring out to pick
runs and then leads?
I had
heard _ people play scales on pianos and I thought well it can be done on the guitar.
_ _ _ By the process of trial and error, I learned where to sort of put my fingers.
I don't play all the chords and scales according to Hoyle as they say,
but [Dm] I had to figure out the best way I could do it.
And did [E] you start singing songs and playing behind yourself?
Sure.
[G#] When the Roses Bloom in Dixieland was the first song I learned to sing and I just strummed the [G] chords when I
[C] played it. _ _
The Roses Bloom in Dixieland.
Only I sang it whip high.
And [G] my voice hadn't changed.
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Tell me about how you started to develop the flat picking style.
I started a little bit with the old acoustic [F] guitar, flat top.
But when I played the electric guitar with a dance group in the 50s, my technical practice with the flat pick,
_ really using the flat pick to play leads and
fiddle tunes when we didn't have a fiddler for square dances on the electric guitar.
_ Came then.
So you're playing those
fiddle tunes on the electric guitar for dancing.
Yeah, buddy.
[G] And it worked pretty good.
Yeah.
That must have been pretty exciting for people to hear since they'd really [F#] never heard a guitar do that before.
_ _ [G] _ Black Mountain Rag was one of the ones they dearly loved.
They'd wear me out as an old boy called a, he'd call a set, square dance set for 20 minutes and when you got done
your arm was broke.
[G] And you were playing the lead the [D] whole time.
Yeah, God.
Oh man.
You know, let's give people an idea of what we're talking about here.
Why don't you play the Beaumont Rag? _
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