Chords for Leroy Van Dyke - The Auctioneer

[G] Hey, well, all right, sir.
You ever go there and what are they gonna give for?
I'm a 25, I don't give 30 now.
I'm a 5, I'm a 55, I'm a 40 now.
I'm a 5, [Ab] I'm a 55, I'm a 50, and all the 30 [G] behind me.
There was a boy in Arkansas [C] who wouldn't listen to his [D] mom
when she told him he should go [G] to school.
_ He'd sneak away in the afternoon, [C] take a little walk,
and pretty soon [D] you'd find him at the local auction [G] barn.
_ [C] He'd stand there to listen, [G] carefree,
but pretty soon he began to see [A] how the auctioneer could
talk so [D] rapidly.
_ He [G] said, oh, my, ah, I [C] would love to learn that auction,
but I [D] gotta make my mark, would be an [G] auctioneer.
_ 25, I'm a 50 now, 30, now a 30, [C] 50, 50.
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_ [G] _ _ _ 30, I'm a 50 now, 35, 50, [C] 50, 50, 50.
[D] 30, I'm a 50 now, 35, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50.
I got [G] a learned, oh.
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Oh, from that boy who went to school.
[D] There grew a man who played it cool.
they [E] came back home before they had [A] auctioneered. _ _
As the people came from miles around [D] the deer,
they could not make the music sound [E] until their hearts were such a happy [A] cheer. _ _
[D] This man went out from shore to shore, [A] he had all he could do and more,
[B] had to buy a plane to [E] get around. _
[A] Now he's the top, said all the [D] landlords,
Paul, give that man a [E] hand, he's the best of all the [A] _ auctioneers.
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_ _ _ _ [E] He's the best of _
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_ all the auctioneers. _ _ _ _ _
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