Chords for Johnny Nicholas
Tempo:
79.55 bpm
Chords used:
D
A
G
C
Dm
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[D]
[G] [Dm]
[G] [Dm] Roll on Mississippi, you freight train in the night.
[A]
[D] Roll on Mississippi, down past the sands of time.
[G]
[D] Gather in your tributaries to your watery breast.
[G] From the mountains and [Dm] the prairies of the east and west.
[A] Past the old plantation, past the plaque of [D] mine.
New Orleans will ease [A] your worried mind.
[Dm]
[C] [C]
[D] Roll on Mississippi, roll on Mississippi.
Down to that southern sea.
[G]
[D] Roll on Mississippi, like a dying gambler's plea.
[C]
[D] [C] Hardly cries, neath delta [D] skies.
Float upon the waves, [C] teardrops from the heavens.
[Dm] Wash down on the grave [A] of the dreamers and the schemers
[Dm] who passed this way before.
[D] Oil and flood, sweat and blood [A] no more.
[F#]
[G] [D] [C] Roll [D] on Mississippi, Mississippi.
[C]
[D]
Roll on Mississippi, as history [G] unfolds.
[D]
Roll on Mississippi, many questions do you hold.
[G] [D]
[G] Like how you knowin', where you goin', such a muddy stream.
How you find your way, [D] half forgotten dream.
[A] Cheyenne, Sioux, Kickapoo, [D] Fox and Chickasaw.
[G] All the cards were marked before [A] the draw.
[D] [G] [A]
[C] [G] Roll on [D] Mississippi,
[C] roll on [D] Mississippi.
[Dm]
[C] [A]
[C] [D]
Roll on Mississippi, right past my baby's door.
[A] [A]
[Dm] Roll on Mississippi, you've passed this way before.
[D]
[C] I can hear you in the wind.
[D] I can hear you moan.
[A] You're a lonesome whistle, [D] tryin' to call me home.
[C] Oh, you fill my [D] heart.
How you flood my soul.
[C] Take me in your arms and gently [A] roll.
[D] [D] [G]
[C] Roll on [D] Mississippi.
[G]
[D] [C] [A] Roll on Mississippi.
[D]
[G]
[A] Roll on Mississippi.
[G]
[D] [C] Mmm,
[D] Mississippi.
[Dm] [D]
My name's Johnny Nicholas.
I've been playing music since I was 13 years old.
I've had a lot of different guitars throughout my life,
and I've been very blessed to play
with some of the great artists of American music
because I was very, very interested in the records
that I heard when I was a kid, and I went out
and tried to find all the guys that played that stuff,
and I was very fortunate.
Well, this instrument is about a late 1800s Washburn.
Parlor guitar is what they called it
because it's very [E] small.
But obviously it's got a big, big sound.
This guitar was purchased up in Ann Arbor.
I didn't, this is not my, this is a funny story on this guitar.
My good friend Tom Stevenson was playing up in Ann Arbor.
There was a great music scene up there in the early 70s,
and I was a part of it, and I met this guy Tom,
and we became real good friends.
And I was rambling all the time at that time
from, my home base was Ann Arbor,
but I'd come down to Louisiana, Texas, out to California,
wherever there was a good music scene,
or some gigs, or a woman that I was after,
or you know, how that goes when you're young.
And this, Tom bought this guitar,
and I don't know exactly where he bought it,
but he, it needed a bunch of work,
and he took it to Danny Erlewine,
and Danny Erlewine's a very well-known musician from up there,
and Luthier, and Danny did some work on it,
and you know, got it playable.
The guitar had these holes in it,
we don't know what or who had done that, or when,
so it's kind of a mystery, adds a little bit of character,
but [F#] this thing has, for a little bitty guitar,
it's [G] got a, got a big [Em] sound.
[A] [E]
[Bm] [B]
[A] [G#] This guitar, man, is magic.
Everybody, people come over to my house,
or you know, come here, and they,
everybody wants to play this guitar,
because it's just so, it's just, there's nothing like them, man.
I mean, there's, and people are making
some amazing guitars nowadays,
but the thing is, it takes a guitar,
just like anything else,
it needs some age on it to really, you know, get through.
It's sweet, and that's why this one is [A] just
[G] [Dm]
[G] [Dm] Roll on Mississippi, you freight train in the night.
[A]
[D] Roll on Mississippi, down past the sands of time.
[G]
[D] Gather in your tributaries to your watery breast.
[G] From the mountains and [Dm] the prairies of the east and west.
[A] Past the old plantation, past the plaque of [D] mine.
New Orleans will ease [A] your worried mind.
[Dm]
[C] [C]
[D] Roll on Mississippi, roll on Mississippi.
Down to that southern sea.
[G]
[D] Roll on Mississippi, like a dying gambler's plea.
[C]
[D] [C] Hardly cries, neath delta [D] skies.
Float upon the waves, [C] teardrops from the heavens.
[Dm] Wash down on the grave [A] of the dreamers and the schemers
[Dm] who passed this way before.
[D] Oil and flood, sweat and blood [A] no more.
[F#]
[G] [D] [C] Roll [D] on Mississippi, Mississippi.
[C]
[D]
Roll on Mississippi, as history [G] unfolds.
[D]
Roll on Mississippi, many questions do you hold.
[G] [D]
[G] Like how you knowin', where you goin', such a muddy stream.
How you find your way, [D] half forgotten dream.
[A] Cheyenne, Sioux, Kickapoo, [D] Fox and Chickasaw.
[G] All the cards were marked before [A] the draw.
[D] [G] [A]
[C] [G] Roll on [D] Mississippi,
[C] roll on [D] Mississippi.
[Dm]
[C] [A]
[C] [D]
Roll on Mississippi, right past my baby's door.
[A] [A]
[Dm] Roll on Mississippi, you've passed this way before.
[D]
[C] I can hear you in the wind.
[D] I can hear you moan.
[A] You're a lonesome whistle, [D] tryin' to call me home.
[C] Oh, you fill my [D] heart.
How you flood my soul.
[C] Take me in your arms and gently [A] roll.
[D] [D] [G]
[C] Roll on [D] Mississippi.
[G]
[D] [C] [A] Roll on Mississippi.
[D]
[G]
[A] Roll on Mississippi.
[G]
[D] [C] Mmm,
[D] Mississippi.
[Dm] [D]
My name's Johnny Nicholas.
I've been playing music since I was 13 years old.
I've had a lot of different guitars throughout my life,
and I've been very blessed to play
with some of the great artists of American music
because I was very, very interested in the records
that I heard when I was a kid, and I went out
and tried to find all the guys that played that stuff,
and I was very fortunate.
Well, this instrument is about a late 1800s Washburn.
Parlor guitar is what they called it
because it's very [E] small.
But obviously it's got a big, big sound.
This guitar was purchased up in Ann Arbor.
I didn't, this is not my, this is a funny story on this guitar.
My good friend Tom Stevenson was playing up in Ann Arbor.
There was a great music scene up there in the early 70s,
and I was a part of it, and I met this guy Tom,
and we became real good friends.
And I was rambling all the time at that time
from, my home base was Ann Arbor,
but I'd come down to Louisiana, Texas, out to California,
wherever there was a good music scene,
or some gigs, or a woman that I was after,
or you know, how that goes when you're young.
And this, Tom bought this guitar,
and I don't know exactly where he bought it,
but he, it needed a bunch of work,
and he took it to Danny Erlewine,
and Danny Erlewine's a very well-known musician from up there,
and Luthier, and Danny did some work on it,
and you know, got it playable.
The guitar had these holes in it,
we don't know what or who had done that, or when,
so it's kind of a mystery, adds a little bit of character,
but [F#] this thing has, for a little bitty guitar,
it's [G] got a, got a big [Em] sound.
[A] [E]
[Bm] [B]
[A] [G#] This guitar, man, is magic.
Everybody, people come over to my house,
or you know, come here, and they,
everybody wants to play this guitar,
because it's just so, it's just, there's nothing like them, man.
I mean, there's, and people are making
some amazing guitars nowadays,
but the thing is, it takes a guitar,
just like anything else,
it needs some age on it to really, you know, get through.
It's sweet, and that's why this one is [A] just
Key:
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A
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C
Dm
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_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ Roll on Mississippi, you freight train in the night.
[A] _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ Roll on Mississippi, down past the sands of time.
[G] _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ Gather in your tributaries to your watery breast.
[G] From the mountains and [Dm] the prairies of the east and west.
[A] Past the old plantation, past the plaque of [D] mine.
New Orleans will ease [A] your worried mind.
_ [Dm] _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
[D] Roll on Mississippi, _ _ roll on Mississippi.
Down to that southern sea.
[G] _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ Roll on Mississippi, like a dying gambler's plea.
[C] _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ [C] Hardly cries, neath delta [D] skies.
Float upon the waves, [C] teardrops from the heavens.
[Dm] Wash down on the grave [A] of the dreamers and the schemers
[Dm] who passed this way before.
[D] Oil and flood, sweat and blood [A] no more.
_ _ [F#] _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _ Roll [D] on Mississippi, _ _ _ _ Mississippi.
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Roll on Mississippi, _ as history _ [G] unfolds.
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _
Roll on Mississippi, many questions do you hold.
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
[G] Like how you knowin', where you goin', such a muddy stream.
How you find your way, [D] half forgotten dream.
_ [A] Cheyenne, Sioux, Kickapoo, [D] Fox and Chickasaw.
[G] All the cards were marked before [A] the draw. _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [A] _
_ [C] _ _ [G] Roll on [D] Mississippi, _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] roll on [D] Mississippi. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ Roll on Mississippi, right past my baby's door.
_ [A] _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ [Dm] _ Roll on Mississippi, you've passed this way before.
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ [C] I can hear you in the wind.
[D] I can hear you moan.
[A] You're a lonesome whistle, [D] tryin' to call me home.
[C] Oh, you fill my [D] heart.
How you flood my soul.
[C] Take me in your arms and gently [A] roll.
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ [C] _ Roll on [D] Mississippi.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ [D] _ _ [C] _ _ [A] Roll on Mississippi.
[D] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ [A] Roll on Mississippi. _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ [C] _ Mmm, _
[D] Mississippi.
_ [Dm] _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ My name's Johnny Nicholas.
I've been playing music since I was 13 years old.
I've had a lot of different guitars throughout my life,
and I've been very blessed to play
with some of the great artists of American music
because I was very, very interested in the records
that I heard when I was a kid, and I went out
and tried to find all the guys that played that stuff,
and I was very fortunate.
Well, this instrument is about a late 1800s Washburn.
Parlor guitar is what they called it
because it's very [E] small.
But obviously it's got a big, big sound.
This guitar was purchased up in Ann Arbor.
I didn't, this is not my, this is a funny story on this guitar.
My good friend Tom Stevenson was playing up in Ann Arbor.
There was a great music scene up there in the early 70s,
and I was a part of it, and I met this guy Tom,
and we became real good friends.
And I was rambling all the time at that time
from, my home base was Ann Arbor,
but I'd come down to Louisiana, Texas, out to California,
wherever there was a good music scene,
or some gigs, or a woman that I was after,
or you know, how that goes when you're young.
And this, Tom bought this guitar,
and I don't know exactly where he bought it,
but he, it needed a bunch of work,
and he took it to Danny Erlewine,
and Danny Erlewine's a very well-known musician from up there,
and Luthier, and Danny did some work on it,
and you know, got it playable.
The guitar had these holes in it,
we don't know what or who had done that, or when, _ _
so it's kind of a mystery, adds a little bit of character,
but [F#] this thing has, for a little bitty guitar,
it's [G] got a, got _ a big [Em] sound.
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ [Bm] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ [G#] This guitar, man, is magic.
Everybody, people come over to my house,
or you know, come here, and they, _
everybody wants to play this guitar,
because it's just so, it's just, there's nothing like them, man.
I mean, there's, and people are making
some amazing guitars nowadays,
but the thing is, it takes a guitar,
just like anything else,
it needs some age on it to really, you know, get through.
It's sweet, and that's why this one is [A] just_ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ Roll on Mississippi, you freight train in the night.
[A] _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ Roll on Mississippi, down past the sands of time.
[G] _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ Gather in your tributaries to your watery breast.
[G] From the mountains and [Dm] the prairies of the east and west.
[A] Past the old plantation, past the plaque of [D] mine.
New Orleans will ease [A] your worried mind.
_ [Dm] _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
[D] Roll on Mississippi, _ _ roll on Mississippi.
Down to that southern sea.
[G] _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ Roll on Mississippi, like a dying gambler's plea.
[C] _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ [C] Hardly cries, neath delta [D] skies.
Float upon the waves, [C] teardrops from the heavens.
[Dm] Wash down on the grave [A] of the dreamers and the schemers
[Dm] who passed this way before.
[D] Oil and flood, sweat and blood [A] no more.
_ _ [F#] _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _ Roll [D] on Mississippi, _ _ _ _ Mississippi.
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Roll on Mississippi, _ as history _ [G] unfolds.
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _
Roll on Mississippi, many questions do you hold.
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
[G] Like how you knowin', where you goin', such a muddy stream.
How you find your way, [D] half forgotten dream.
_ [A] Cheyenne, Sioux, Kickapoo, [D] Fox and Chickasaw.
[G] All the cards were marked before [A] the draw. _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [A] _
_ [C] _ _ [G] Roll on [D] Mississippi, _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] roll on [D] Mississippi. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ Roll on Mississippi, right past my baby's door.
_ [A] _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ [Dm] _ Roll on Mississippi, you've passed this way before.
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ [C] I can hear you in the wind.
[D] I can hear you moan.
[A] You're a lonesome whistle, [D] tryin' to call me home.
[C] Oh, you fill my [D] heart.
How you flood my soul.
[C] Take me in your arms and gently [A] roll.
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ [C] _ Roll on [D] Mississippi.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ [D] _ _ [C] _ _ [A] Roll on Mississippi.
[D] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ [A] Roll on Mississippi. _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ [C] _ Mmm, _
[D] Mississippi.
_ [Dm] _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ My name's Johnny Nicholas.
I've been playing music since I was 13 years old.
I've had a lot of different guitars throughout my life,
and I've been very blessed to play
with some of the great artists of American music
because I was very, very interested in the records
that I heard when I was a kid, and I went out
and tried to find all the guys that played that stuff,
and I was very fortunate.
Well, this instrument is about a late 1800s Washburn.
Parlor guitar is what they called it
because it's very [E] small.
But obviously it's got a big, big sound.
This guitar was purchased up in Ann Arbor.
I didn't, this is not my, this is a funny story on this guitar.
My good friend Tom Stevenson was playing up in Ann Arbor.
There was a great music scene up there in the early 70s,
and I was a part of it, and I met this guy Tom,
and we became real good friends.
And I was rambling all the time at that time
from, my home base was Ann Arbor,
but I'd come down to Louisiana, Texas, out to California,
wherever there was a good music scene,
or some gigs, or a woman that I was after,
or you know, how that goes when you're young.
And this, Tom bought this guitar,
and I don't know exactly where he bought it,
but he, it needed a bunch of work,
and he took it to Danny Erlewine,
and Danny Erlewine's a very well-known musician from up there,
and Luthier, and Danny did some work on it,
and you know, got it playable.
The guitar had these holes in it,
we don't know what or who had done that, or when, _ _
so it's kind of a mystery, adds a little bit of character,
but [F#] this thing has, for a little bitty guitar,
it's [G] got a, got _ a big [Em] sound.
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ [Bm] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ [G#] This guitar, man, is magic.
Everybody, people come over to my house,
or you know, come here, and they, _
everybody wants to play this guitar,
because it's just so, it's just, there's nothing like them, man.
I mean, there's, and people are making
some amazing guitars nowadays,
but the thing is, it takes a guitar,
just like anything else,
it needs some age on it to really, you know, get through.
It's sweet, and that's why this one is [A] just_ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _