Chords for JEAN RITCHIE - MY DEAR COMPANION - Alan Lomax Footage

Where did the blues come from?
_ Memphis says
From the sorrows of the South _ and that's true
_ But they also had a root in the lonesome love songs of Great Britain that [Eb] lived on in the backwoods of the South
As Jean [Fm] Ritchie and her [F] dulcimer [Bb] will explain
I once said I had _
[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ [Ebm] indeed a thought _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
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_ _ and now he can't _
[Ebm] work for _ me
I first met Alan Lomax in 1947 _ _ _
[Eb] When [Bb] I first when I came to New York City from Kentucky _
[Abm] He said sing me a [Eb] song so I sang him an old ballad and he said do you know any more?
_ _ And I said a few more with the family repertory so he said well I want to record everything you know
for the Library of Congress _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
_ _ _ _ [Ebm] _ Was very single-minded about music almost everything that he did or talked about had to had something to do with music
And he was always looking for different kinds of music even in those days _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ He had a big picture in his mind of all the things he wanted to get done before [N] he left the world
and so he just he was in a hurry he knew that he didn't have time to do it all and
Even when I first met him I could see that this thing this
View of the big picture started to form and he started telling me all the things that he wanted to do in the world _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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