Chords for John Hartford - Ramblin - 07 - Let Him Go On Mama

_ [E] Well, he likes black coffee Fridays and a well-done T-bone steak
Likes [Gb] a red dress and a pearly white teeth and the [B] flash of a pretty brown leg
He said back in the 30s, you know, you [E] never had it made
[B] He's an engineer over on the [E] Ohio River a [Ebm] running in the Pittsburgh shade
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_ [E] _ _ He's just a fowler worked on the river all his life by a paddle wheel
You say he's old-fashioned
Well, that ain't no big deal.
[Bm] Well, it's too thick to navigate
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And it's too thin to plow
So let him go mama.
No put him down for it now
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Well, he sits and smokes an old eyeball cigar [C] and he says he doesn't miss it at all
But he still goes out and he makes a few trips [B] in the summer and then in the fall
Oh the railroad trains the bus and [E] the planes taking up all the slack
He's been watching all those river towns [B] slowly turn their back _
_ [E] _ _ He's just a fowler worked on the river all his life by a paddle wheel
You say he's old-fashioned.
Oh, that ain't no big deal.
[Bm] Well, it's too thick to [B] navigate
And it's too thin to plow
So let him [E] go mama no put him down for [A] it now _
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_ _ _ Now you're as [B] pretty as he is ugly
[Bm] He's the happiest man alive
You've got him into believing that old men are back in style
Now you see this [E] oyster's been built in this baked potato skin
[B] I ate him so I can grow up and be an old man.
[Eb] Just like him
_ _ _ He's [E] just a fowler worked on the river all his life by a paddle wheel
You say he's old [Bm]-fashioned.
Well, that [B] ain't no [E] big deal.
Well, it's too thick to navigate
And it's too thin to plow
Let him go mama
No, put him [A] down for it now
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