Chords for Make Me Down A Pallet On Your Floor - Doc Watson/Jack Lawre

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Make Me Down A Pallet On Your Floor -  Doc Watson/Jack Lawre chords
Jam Along & Learn...
I got that blasted shoe string out of my way there.
guitar comes from Morrisville, North Carolina.
Lawrence is making business as well as he can be.
Some of my [F#] favorite memories are [B] people like John Hurt that I met back over the years
I learned some mighty good music from John and Mance [C#] Lipscomb and a lot of the other
to.
[G] first met [F] John in 1964 at the Berkley Folk Festival.
some of his records before then.
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_ _ I got that blasted shoe string out of my way there.
_ _ _ This man on the other guitar comes from Morrisville, North Carolina.
Brother Jack Lawrence is making business as well as he can be.
Let's hear it for him. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Some of my [F#] favorite memories are [B] people like John Hurt that I met back over the years
and the days of the folk festivals.
I learned some mighty good music from John and Mance [C#] Lipscomb and a lot of the other
_ people I listened to.
_ _ _ _ _ Merle and I [G] first met [F] John in 1964 at the Berkley Folk Festival.
I'd heard some of his records before then.
[C#] _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ I like to do one of Brother John's tunes.
_ _ To me this is one of John's tunes.
Somebody [E] else claimed the copyright but I think John recorded it [F] before he was supposed
[D] to have written it.
So, you know how that goes. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ John recorded [G] it in the late 20s, Jerry, on an early recording.
This fellow was supposed to have written it in [C] 1934.
[A] _ _ [D] _ _ I'm telling you my friend Jerry Riggs said this.
Anyhow, anyway, when me [G#m] and Jack play this we don't [G] attempt to copy _ the old [G#]-timers like John.
We just some kind of pick it like [B] me and Jack and hope you enjoy it.
It's called Make Me Down a Pallet on Your Floor, honey, because if I sleep on your [D#m] bed
I might get killed.
[D] _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ [F#] _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ Make me down a pallet [D] on your floor.
_ _ [G] Make me down a pallet [A] on your floor.
_ _ [D] Honey, won't you make it [G] down, make it soft and low.
Then maybe my little girl she [D] won't know.
_ _ [G] _ _ That [D] sleepy snow.
_ [G] I'm going up the country through that [A] sleepy snow.
_ [D] Yes, I'm going up the country [G]
through that sleepy snow.
Ain't no telling just how [D] far I'll go.
You [G] had my breakfast here and the dinner in [D] Tennessee.
_ _ _ [G] _ The dinner in [A] Tennessee.
I'm _ [D] going to give my breakfast [F#] here [G] and the dinner in Tennessee.
[D] Told you I was coming so you better listen.
_ _ _ [G] Make me down a pallet [E] on your floor.
_ _ [G] Make me down a pallet on your [A] floor.
_ [D] Honey, [F#] won't you make it [G] down, make it soft and low.
[D] Then maybe my little girl she won't know.
_ [G] _ _ _ _
[Bm] _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [F#] _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Well, you know that I can't lay [F#m] down on your bed.
_ [G] Now, woman, I can't lay down [A] on your bed.
_ [D] Oh, sweet [F#] girl, I can't lay [G] down across your bed.
[D] Oh, my good woman, she might kill me dead.
_ _ [G] Don't you let my good girl [D] catch you.
_ _ [G] Hey, don't you let my good girl [A] catch you.
_ [D] If you think she may shoot [G] you, she'll not cut your stomach in.
Ain't no telling [D] what that girl might do.
_ _ [G] _ Make me down a pallet on [D] your floor.
_ [G] Make me down a pallet [A] on your floor.
Honey, _ [D] _ won't [F#] you make it down, [G] make it soft and low.
[D] Then maybe my little girl she won't know.
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[F#] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [F#] _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ The way I've been sleeping, my back and shoulders [A] tired.
_ [D] The way I've been sleeping, my back and shoulders tired.
Yeah, the way I've been [F#] sleeping, [G] my back and shoulders tired.
[D] The thing that turns me on, turns me on, my song.
_ [G] _ Ain't got no more to [A] eat.
_ _ [G] Hey, make me down a pallet on your [A] floor.
_ _ [D] Oh, honey, won't [F#] you make it down, [G] make it soft and low.
[D] Then maybe my little [A] girl she won't know.
Let's take it together.
[G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [C#m] _
_ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] Make me _ down _ a _ _ pallet on [A] your floor.
_ [D] Honey, make it over, [G] close behind that door.
Make it where you and that [D] lover go.
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