Chords for DL Menard - The Back Door / La Porte d'en Arrière

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[G] _ _ [Fm] _ _ [N] Now we've got a special guest here who's going to roll himself to the stage.
Mr.
D.L.
Maynard with _ _ _ Miss Nelda, his granddaughter, providing transportation for him.
All right, so D.L.
Maynard has been at this for a long time, since the late 1940s. _ _ _
[Dbm] _ [D] I almost can't remember myself.
_ [E] He's one of the few people still alive that sat down and had a conversation with Hank Williams Sr.
Yeah.
D.L.,. [Ab] what did Hank tell you? Oh, a bunch of stuff. I asked him how long [Abm] it would take [N] him to write a song. He said, if I can't write it in half an hour, that means I can't write it. I wrote a song in about three minutes. [Bb] _ _ _ Okay, let me tell you [N] something. We're going to play a song that I wrote and recorded that I didn't make it popular. Y'all did. [F] That tune called The Back Door. La porte dans la [Cm] ria. _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [Gb] _ [Bb] _ _ _
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_ _ _ la belle et la vieille, sous base On a passé dans tous les hans et [Bb] dans Pendant mes nuits, dans ma [F] matin Je vous ai fait un petit café [C] Je suis passé dans la [F] porte dans la ria Dans cette nuit j'ai voyagé au village J'ai vu [Fm] les étoiles du [Bb] marché Je me suis amené back à la [F] maison J'avais accompagné ces petits monstres étrangers Je [C] suis passé dans la [F] porte dans la ria _ _ _ _ _ _ Mon _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
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_ _ _ père est passé j'arrive Il a essayé de [Bb] transémoniser C'est pas faux que j'avais trop à te [F] dire Un jour il a amené mon état à ce gré [C] Je suis passé dans la [F] porte dans la ria _ Et j'ai un tas d'amis dans la village J'ai perdu l'argent mais ils veulent entendre [Bb] moi J'ai un village pour mes filles dans le [F] saco Allô Madame Balsé, je suis passé dans la prison [C] Je suis passé dans la [Fm] porte dans la ria [F] _ All _ _ right Jerry! _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [F] _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Okay Reggie! _ _ [Gm] _ [Bb] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] Thank you all very much! _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ You know, [E] when I was in China I stayed 28 days in China playing [Em] music Before they knew what they had [Am] Then they sent me back home _ _ The only [E] thing I could teach those young girls Those young [Gb] Chinese girls [G] [Ebm] Was hot dogs And boy they [N] loved it That's the only thing I was able to teach them And the night we told them that the next morning We was going home Some of them felt like crying Because they never had something like that And naturally most probably they will never have it again It was the El Menor China _ _ _ [Bb] has never been the same Absolutely _ not! _ _ _ _ _ [N] _