Chords for Lynyrd Skynyrd-Gary and Ed talk about "Curtis Loew"

It was a true story.
It was about a black man who grew up in the west side with us.
_ And there was a store called, I forget the name of the store.
I think it was Mulberry Market.
Or it was just the name of the road it was on, it was Mulberry Drive.
But it was just Mulberry
Market.
And there was a black man who stayed out there.
His name wasn't Curtis, but he was
just a black guy.
And he had an old Dobro guitar.
He kept it in his house right behind the store.
But if you gave him some money, you know, 50 cents or even a quarter, he'd play, you know,
if you wanted to, he'd play a song for you.
And he'd break out his bottle and go, man,
and play the blues, you know, play a blues song for you and sing sometimes.
So we would collect Coke bottles, which the song says, drive all around the neighborhood,
getting them.
And we go up and we cash them in and get the money and give it to Curtis Lowe.
But he would go right across the street to the wine store, the beer store and buy a bottle of
wine.
We'd go up to him and we'd give him like a quarter and he'd play for a minute and he'd come
out straight and just play a song and say, give me the money, boy.
But when we get when we would
all get together, three or four of us, we put our money together.
We give him like a dollar,
dollar 50, dollar 42.
I think a bottle of wine, cheap wine back then was a dollar 25 or something.
And he'd go across the street and buy a bottle and have two or three nips.
He'd play a little
song and then he'd have half a bottle be gone. _
He was into it.
He was stomping his foot and he'd
take an old Coca-Cola crate, turn it upside down.
And that was his beat, boy.
He'd like a bass to
kick it like a kick drum.
And he, _ you know, he start playing and he drink a little more wine.
He'd start singing and playing and kicking.
And that was that was him, you know.
And who's playing
that that bottleneck on that?
That's Ed King.
And I was playing all our other guitars, you know,
the leads.
But it was Ed.
Ed's a great slide player and he's a real feeling player.
And that's
how Curtis played.
But I keep saying Curtis, but it wasn't.
But it is to me.
I don't know.
I'm sure
that black man's dead and gone now.
But to me, he is Curtis Lowe's tombstone should have Curtis
written at the bottom of it because he was a man.
You need names of the songs and who wrote them.
OK, that was [D] the only thing they were lacking.
Right.
So when it came [A] to the ballad of Curtis
Lowe and it was a [E] song about a black guy.
So I thought I'd do [C] something funny and spell low, like
as a spell, like Lowe's Theatres, L-O-E-W, because who had ever heard of this old [G] black Jewish [E] guy
playing?
And nobody else in the [D] band has ever picked up on it.
And I'm not going to tell
him to [A] this day, but I've always laughed at that.
I thought that [E] was real.
I shouldn't have done it, but I couldn't resist.