Chords for Jerry Lee Lewis - Mean Old Man (Official Music Video)

[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ A legend, _ _ _
[C] linking today [Bb] with [G] yesterday, _ with two [D] hands, [G] ten fingers, on 88 keys, outing
out a hellbound, yet heaven-sent [Cm] great ball to fire. _ _ _ _ _ _
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I [A] first became aware of [G] Jerry Lee when I was a kid.
A gracious great ball to fire.
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [N] _ And I remember thinking like everybody else did that day, who is this [E] crazy maniac up
there, kicking the piano stool? _ _ _
[Cm] _ [Eb] _ He had this huge mane of hair _ flopping all over [G] like crazy.
He was a huge influence, I think, [F] on _ _ [D] the rockers that came after him. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Are you getting mad? _
Yeah.
Hey.
_ Mean old man, that's no lie.
If I look like a mean old man, that's what I am.
_ _ When we cut Mean Old Man, Ronnie Woods, [A] Ronnie's got his guitar and he's sitting right next
to my [D] daddy.
If I look like a [Dm] mean old man, I'll [G] take you any way you can.
[D] Break your heart and [A] kiss your hand.
That's [D] what I am. _
_ Several people have asked about Mean Old Man, you know, why that title and so forth.
I think it was me.
It was named after the album Mean Old [Am] Man.
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Chris Kuselkin [D] wrote the song.
He played Mean Old [G] Man and we all just went crazy over it.
When [D] I heard Mean Old Man, I knew right then that was _ _ _ a hit. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [C] Mean Old Man seemed like a perfect [D] fit.
It was like [G] it was custom written for him.
I mean, come on.
_ [Dm] He liked the words and, you know, if [D] a singer likes [G] the words, [D] he'll make it his own.
And Jerry certainly did that. _ _ _ _ _
That's what I am. _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ That's what you are.
His references, his influences [Dm] musically [F] are really deep.
[C] And it really shows up later [F] on when he takes a little simple pop song and makes it his own.
[C] You [F] are my sunshine. _ _
_ My only sunshine.
My daddy really liked Sheryl Crow.
[Dm] _ [Bb] So getting them to do a song together was good.
And You Are My [F] Sunshine, I thought, was a really, really good [Bb] choice.
I know, Daddy, _ how much I [F] love you. _
_ _ Please don't take [C]
my sunshine _ _ [F] away. _ _
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_ [D] _ _ [F] Jerry Lee, when he sits down, he just starts playing.
[Fm] _ And so there's not much time for discussion.
And you [C] don't want to lose _ _ a note of what [G] he's playing.
_ [C] _ _ _ _
[Dbm] _ It's not the money, [Gm] it's the love [Gb]
[F] of [C] music.
_ I love _
_ [G] playing [F] the piano _ [C] with the band.
Take me [G] down, little Susan, take me [C] down.
Everybody knows that, so the machine is rolling, [G] _ mics are on, _ _ [C] people get in place, and you go and that's it.
[F] You can send me best flowers every [C] morning.
Best flowers will make me happy.
[F] _ Send me best flowers to my [C] wedding.
That was real good.
And I won't forget to put [G] roses on your [F] grave.
[C] That's a kicker.
_ _ _ _ A _ lot of people [Em] seem to think that it's rare that you would go in and cut an album [F] live these days,
but I find that that's not so rare, really.
It's what everybody really wants to do.
Put a young thing beside him.
_ [Fm] _
You just melt in his [C] hand.
When we went in the studio, [Em] we was cut with a full band.
He's [Dm] gone middle-aged crazy, [G] _
trying to prove he [C] still can.
[G] Jerry wouldn't [Am] know any other way to do it, I don't believe.
[Em] Well, I don't know of any [F] difference in [C] the recording [G] back when I was doing [Dm] Great Balls of [G] Fire.
_ Trying to prove he [C] still can.
_ [Am] Any difference [C] in the recording now?
_ [F] Same thing.
[Em]
Oh, he [G] still can. _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Thank God I still can. _ _ _
_ _ You know, the [Ab] arrangements were done by Jerry.
They [Gm] were actually created on [G] the spot by the way he played.
That's what the arrangement was.
Game line, bleed line, military draft.
He knows the gentle daughter but the killer's not [C] fast.
I'm _ rockin', rockin' my [G] life away.
There were no charts.
[Dm] We played exactly [C] what Jerry [G] played.
And no records are usually done like that.
That is what's kind of rare about this record. _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] What we've got here [G] in the end is a real simple, [Gm] _ nice little record that [G] feels great.
Yeah, it was a lot of fun. _ _ _
I love that album.
[C] He was really strong.
He sang great.
[G] He played great.
Nobody in the world plays like him.
My [D] name is Jerry Lewis [C] and I'm down in Georgia [G] to stay.
_ _ _ _ _ Yeah, you are a mailman.
I know I am.
For real deal, right here.
You'd be a mailman right [C] now. _ _ _
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