Chords for Fiddlin' John Carson: The Farmer Is the Man (1923) / Allen Brothers: Chain Store Blues (1930)

[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[N] If you only look and see, I know you will agree that the farmer is a man that feeds them [G] all. _ _ _
_ _ While the women [N] use the snow, and in every gift unknown, but the farmer [Dm] is a man [G] that feeds them all.
[N] When the farmer comes to town, with his wagon [G] mowin' down, the farmer is a man that feeds them all. _ _ _ _ _ _
Farmer is a man, farmer is a man, [C] that's only credit on those [Bm] folks.
When [G] they're takin' by the hand, when they're leadin' to the land, [D] then the merchant is the man that [G] gets it all. _ _
_ _ _ [N] If you only look and see, I know you will agree that the [D] farmer is a man that [Gm] feeds them all. _
_ _ _ _ While the church owner sings, he will [A] scratch his head and wings, [Dm] but the farmer is a man [G] that feeds them all.
And the lawyer while he's glad, will [Am] tell the lion's cry, [Dm] but the [Gm] farmer is a man that feeds them all.
[N] If you only look and see, I know you [G] will agree that the farmer is a man that feeds them all.
_ _ _ _ Farmer is a man, farmer is a man, [N] that's only credit on those [Em] folks.
When they're takin' by the hand, when they're leadin' to the [A] land, then the merchant is the man [G] that gets it all. _ _ _ _ _
Oh, the doctor [Cm] hangs around, while the blacksmith books [D] his iron, but the farmer is the man that [G] feeds them all.
[C] And the preacher and the cook, they're both rolling on their [D] brooks, but the farmer is the [G] man that feeds them all.
[N] If you only look and see, I know you [Gm] will agree that the farmer is a man that [Em] feeds them all.
Farmer is a man, farmer is a man, [N] that's only credit on those folks.
When they're takin' by the hand, when they're leadin' to the land, then the merchant is the man that gets it all. _
_ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _
[F#] _ _ _ _ _ Blues every morning, blues every night, got _ _ _ _ _ _ [B] the blues every morning, got the blues [F#] every night. _ _
_ _ _ _ [C#] Mr.
Chainstorm Man, your scales don't weigh [F#] just right. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Mr.
Chainstorm Man, tell me what's on your mind. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [B] Mr.
Chainstorm Man, tell me what's [F#] on your mind. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [C#] You've been takin' my cash from me, been fooling me all [F#] the time. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Went to the chain store, I had no cash in hand. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _
[D#m] _ _ _ [G#m] _ _ [F#] _ Wait a minute while I get that old chain storm man told.
I _ couldn't [C#] get credit there, so I went to a [F#] home snowman. _
_ _ _ _ Keep it strictly tailor made, and no hand me down. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [B] Keep it strictly tailor made, _ and no [F#m] hand me down.
_ [F#] _ _
_ _ _ [C#] You'll buy from the home snowman, and run the chain store [F#] from your town. _ _
_ _ _ _ If you want your money, you stay in your own homeland. _ _
Whip it brother, whip it.
_ _ _ [B] If you want your money, you stay in your own [F#] homeland. _ _ _
_ _ _ [C#] Don't trade with the chain storm man, but trade with the home [F#] snowman. _ _ _