Chords for John Hartford - Texas Shorty plays Dusty Miller

Back in the, I don't know if it was the late 50s, early 60s, I used to live in [D] Missouri
and there was an old fiddle [E] player up there that we used to play a lot with, named Cleo
Persinger.
[G] Cleo was a big old strap-and-tone feller.
He wore gallows about like this, you
know, and played a lot of great [Em] old tunes.
He had one of the great _ styles like that.
And his wife played the guitar.
And they played square dances up there [E] around Columbia, Missouri.
He lived in a little old town called Kingdom City.
And he told us one time, he said,
boys, well, you know where that's at.
[G] All right.
All right.
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So [E] one day he told us,
he said, boys, he said there's a fiddle contest out here in Weezer, Idaho.
And he said,
by golly, he [G] said, me and the missus going to go out there and get in it.
And he did
and he come back, my God, he won first place.
[Em] Come back there and boy, you never seen such
gallows snapping for a mixed year.
Carrying on.
He played that Boone [E] County Rag, and
he thought it [G] was the Kingdom City Philharmonic Orchestra going on.
I mean, he was not concerned
at all, at any [Em] rate.
So he says, well, he says, next [A] year, he says, _ we're going to go
[E] out, me and the missus says, we're going out to Weezer, Idaho, and defend our [Am] championship.
He [G] said, oh, boy, wish I could be there to see that.
[F#] And, _ _ [A] well, he come back and he was
a little bit on [B] the blue side.
He didn't do so well.
I said, _ [A] Cleo, what's the problem?
He said, well, he said there was [B] a, there was an old man out there with a car and had
a trunk full of records.
[N] And he had a little boy with him named Texas [F#] Shorty.
And he said
he pulled that fiddle out there and beat everybody in sight.
He played a goddamn thing I never
heard in my life. _
_ He said he beat everybody in sight.
And he said, [N] I never heard such
fiddling in all my life.
And he said, no, I'm not.
But I went and bought his record
and here it is.
_ So, _ so I put it on the turntable.
And that's the first time I ever heard the
real _ Texas style of Dusty Miller.
And I'm going to tell you what it blew my hat in the
creek.
And I want Shorty to turn loose on this.
I'm not going to get into this.
Buddy,
this [E] is, this is, _ _ this is something I want to hear.
I want Shorty to play you Dusty Miller.
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And the kid, [A] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ I [G] don't know if she's, that was back in the, [C#] that [G] was early 60s.
You've [F#] whittled
around a little bit on this since then.
Changed a few notes around and everything [B] like that.
But here he is.
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I'm _ _ _ _ going to play you Dusty Miller. _ _ _ _ _