Chords for Marty Stuart Photography
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Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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Connie Smith came to the Choctaw Indian Fair in Philadelphia, [Eb] Mississippi in 1970, July.
So it was a big day for our family because of what I said, you know, mama's favorite
singer was coming to town.
And I thought she was the prettiest girl in the world.
I've still got the record covering her.
When Miss Smith goes to Nashville, I just walk by the stereo and look at her.
I thought she was beautiful.
And after the show, let's see, before the show, I had my mom take me to buy a yellow
shirt so she'd notice me.
So me and my sister got our picture made with Connie, got her autograph, but she didn't notice me.
And on the way out of the stadium where she played, I asked my mama, I said, can I borrow your camera?
She said, yeah.
And I went and found Connie sitting in this car.
And I said, Miss Smith, can I take your picture?
And she smiled for me and let me stick that camera almost on the end of her nose and take her picture.
And she still didn't notice me.
But I've said it a thousand times, but it's so true.
On the way home, I told mama, I said, I'm going to marry that girl someday on the way
home from that show.
But that was the first picture I ever remember taking in my life.
The Ernest Tubb bus was called the Green Hornet.
They had a nickname for everything, from their costumes to the bus.
That bus looked mighty important rolling into a town or rolling down the interstate.
We know the buses that we ride on these days are totally tricked out and totally luxurious.
They're like lanyards or like train cars.
But that was the first bus in Nashville that was really organized and put together by a
guy named Hoot Borden, the dean of country drivers.
And we did a lot of shows with Ernest Tubb when I was with Lester Flatt's band.
And the thing about it was that Lester's bus was really somber.
They'd turn the lights off at night and the only thing you could see was the red cigarette
ash burning on cigarettes going down the road.
So it was really quiet and somber.
That bus, on the other hand, was like a rolling frat house.
That's where I wanted to be.
These guys worked over 300 and something shows a year, every year.
So it was home to those guys.
They had organization for their costumes.
They had band rules.
They had fines if you cussed on Sunday and left your hat on the bunk.
It was just this rolling craziness.
But the deeper meaning of that bus to me is that our TV in Mississippi was black and white.
And I used to love to watch those old country music shows with their costumes that sparkled and everything.
So I saw it in black and white.
But the day that this bus and that band rolled into my hometown to play the county fair,
those guys stepped off that bus wearing matching cowboy suits.
I think they were pink and white.
Ernest had on this beautiful pinstripe suit with a white hat.
He looked 40 feet tall to me, playing those guitars I'd seen on TV in that green and black
and white bus.
It was a sight to behold.
I thought it was the prettiest thing I'd ever seen.
The funniest line I remember about that bus, there was an old guy named Don Helms that was playing
steel guitar with Ernest for a while.
He was the guy that played on all the Hank Williams records.
He was funny.
We played a concert with Ernest Tubb and the Texas Troubadours up at Sunset Park in Pennsylvania.
I asked Don Helms, I said,
How long y'all been out?
He said, Hoss, I lost count at 40 days.
I said, When are you going home?
He said, I don't know, but if this bus ever does, I'm getting off.
I'm never getting on a bus again.
In the early 90s, Brian Ahern, a great record producer, composed a record called
The Bradley Barn Sessions.
He kind of put together an all-star band.
It was Vince and Ricky and me.
You'd have to check the credits, but there was a lot of star musicians that we made up the house band.
One by one, we had to stand up and go to the microphone and take our whipping with George.
George was just so great.
One of the people that came in outside of Nashville was Keith Richards,
one of the biggest George Jones fans in the world.
He loves George.
He brought the country-est song.
He brought the coolest song.
He was totally giddy about meeting George.
He really was.
Maybe a little nervous.
The beauty of it was, me and Keith are old buddies.
He came [N] to me and said, is everything going on good in Nashville?
I said, yeah, it's fine.
It's just really easy going.
George was on the other side of the door.
He called me and said, hey, Marty.
He said, what's that boy's name that's coming in here to sing with me?
I said, Keith Richards.
He said, yeah.
He said, what's that bunch he sings with?
I went, The Rolling Stones.
He said, are they hot?
I went, pretty hot.
After it was all over, the two of them hit it off immediately.
Immediately.
After it was all over and Keith was gone, George said, I like that old boy.
He reminds me of Woody Woodpecker.
It was a great moment.
That's the moment they kind of met.
Hank Williams' sister was named Irene.
She lived in Texas.
She asked a friend of mine one day in the early 90s if he knew me.
He said, yeah.
She wanted to meet me.
The next time we played in Texas, we sent for her.
She came out to our concert.
I got to know Irene.
We became friends.
Not long after that, we didn't have [Gb] long to get to know each other.
She passed away.
She was laid to rest next to her brother Hank down in Montgomery, Alabama.
Of course, Hank Jr.
came and his family was there.
[Eb] For some reason, I had my camera with me that day.
Two things I really, really remember about that day is as they were lowering her into the ground,
Hank Jr.
just started singing, I Saw the Light by Himself.
It was haunting.
Those family tones came up out of him from the ancient place.
But after it was all over, I saw Hank Jr.
with his little girl Katie in his arms.
He had his hand on his daddy's tombstone.
I heard him say to her, Honey, this was your grandpa.
His name was Hank Williams.
[B] That was a real touching moment.
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Connie Smith came to the Choctaw Indian Fair in Philadelphia, [Eb] Mississippi in 1970, July.
So it was a big day for our family because of what I said, you know, mama's favorite
singer was coming to town.
And I thought she was the prettiest girl in the world.
I've still got the record covering her.
When Miss Smith goes to Nashville, I just walk by the stereo and look at her.
I thought she was beautiful.
And after the show, let's see, before the show, I had my mom take me to buy a yellow
shirt so she'd notice me.
So me and my sister got our picture made with Connie, got her autograph, but she didn't notice me.
And on the way out of the stadium where she played, I asked my mama, I said, can I borrow your camera?
She said, yeah.
And I went and found Connie sitting in this car.
And I said, Miss Smith, can I take your picture?
And she smiled for me and let me stick that camera almost on the end of her nose and take her picture.
And she still didn't notice me.
But I've said it a thousand times, but it's so true.
On the way home, I told mama, I said, I'm going to marry that girl someday on the way
home from that show.
But that was the first picture I ever remember taking in my life.
The Ernest Tubb bus was called the Green Hornet.
They had a nickname for everything, from their costumes to the bus.
That bus looked mighty important rolling into a town or rolling down the interstate.
We know the buses that we ride on these days are totally tricked out and totally luxurious.
They're like lanyards or like train cars.
But that was the first bus in Nashville that was really organized and put together by a
guy named Hoot Borden, the dean of country drivers.
And we did a lot of shows with Ernest Tubb when I was with Lester Flatt's band.
And the thing about it was that Lester's bus was really somber.
They'd turn the lights off at night and the only thing you could see was the red cigarette
ash burning on cigarettes going down the road.
So it was really quiet and somber.
That bus, on the other hand, was like a rolling frat house.
That's where I wanted to be.
These guys worked over 300 and something shows a year, every year.
So it was home to those guys.
They had organization for their costumes.
They had band rules.
They had fines if you cussed on Sunday and left your hat on the bunk.
It was just this rolling craziness.
But the deeper meaning of that bus to me is that our TV in Mississippi was black and white.
And I used to love to watch those old country music shows with their costumes that sparkled and everything.
So I saw it in black and white.
But the day that this bus and that band rolled into my hometown to play the county fair,
those guys stepped off that bus wearing matching cowboy suits.
I think they were pink and white.
Ernest had on this beautiful pinstripe suit with a white hat.
He looked 40 feet tall to me, playing those guitars I'd seen on TV in that green and black
and white bus.
It was a sight to behold.
I thought it was the prettiest thing I'd ever seen.
The funniest line I remember about that bus, there was an old guy named Don Helms that was playing
steel guitar with Ernest for a while.
He was the guy that played on all the Hank Williams records.
He was funny.
We played a concert with Ernest Tubb and the Texas Troubadours up at Sunset Park in Pennsylvania.
I asked Don Helms, I said,
How long y'all been out?
He said, Hoss, I lost count at 40 days.
I said, When are you going home?
He said, I don't know, but if this bus ever does, I'm getting off.
I'm never getting on a bus again.
In the early 90s, Brian Ahern, a great record producer, composed a record called
The Bradley Barn Sessions.
He kind of put together an all-star band.
It was Vince and Ricky and me.
You'd have to check the credits, but there was a lot of star musicians that we made up the house band.
One by one, we had to stand up and go to the microphone and take our whipping with George.
George was just so great.
One of the people that came in outside of Nashville was Keith Richards,
one of the biggest George Jones fans in the world.
He loves George.
He brought the country-est song.
He brought the coolest song.
He was totally giddy about meeting George.
He really was.
Maybe a little nervous.
The beauty of it was, me and Keith are old buddies.
He came [N] to me and said, is everything going on good in Nashville?
I said, yeah, it's fine.
It's just really easy going.
George was on the other side of the door.
He called me and said, hey, Marty.
He said, what's that boy's name that's coming in here to sing with me?
I said, Keith Richards.
He said, yeah.
He said, what's that bunch he sings with?
I went, The Rolling Stones.
He said, are they hot?
I went, pretty hot.
After it was all over, the two of them hit it off immediately.
Immediately.
After it was all over and Keith was gone, George said, I like that old boy.
He reminds me of Woody Woodpecker.
It was a great moment.
That's the moment they kind of met.
Hank Williams' sister was named Irene.
She lived in Texas.
She asked a friend of mine one day in the early 90s if he knew me.
He said, yeah.
She wanted to meet me.
The next time we played in Texas, we sent for her.
She came out to our concert.
I got to know Irene.
We became friends.
Not long after that, we didn't have [Gb] long to get to know each other.
She passed away.
She was laid to rest next to her brother Hank down in Montgomery, Alabama.
Of course, Hank Jr.
came and his family was there.
[Eb] For some reason, I had my camera with me that day.
Two things I really, really remember about that day is as they were lowering her into the ground,
Hank Jr.
just started singing, I Saw the Light by Himself.
It was haunting.
Those family tones came up out of him from the ancient place.
But after it was all over, I saw Hank Jr.
with his little girl Katie in his arms.
He had his hand on his daddy's tombstone.
I heard him say to her, Honey, this was your grandpa.
His name was Hank Williams.
[B] That was a real touching moment.
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_ _ _ _ _ Connie Smith came to the Choctaw Indian Fair in Philadelphia, [Eb] Mississippi in 1970, July.
So it was a big day for our family because of what I said, you know, mama's favorite
singer was coming to town.
And I thought she was the prettiest girl in the world.
I've still got the record covering her.
When Miss Smith goes to Nashville, I just walk by the stereo and look at her.
I thought she was beautiful.
And after the show, _ _ _ let's see, before the show, I had my mom take me to buy a yellow
shirt so she'd notice me.
So me and my sister got our picture made with Connie, got her autograph, but she didn't notice me.
And on the way out of the stadium where she played, I asked my mama, I said, can I borrow your camera?
She said, yeah.
And I went and found Connie sitting in this car.
And I said, Miss Smith, can I take your picture?
And she smiled for me and let me stick that camera almost on the end of her nose and take her picture.
And she still didn't notice me.
_ But I've said it a thousand times, but it's so true.
On the way home, I told mama, I said, I'm going to marry that girl someday on the way
home from that show.
But that was the first picture I ever remember taking in my life.
_ The Ernest Tubb bus was called the Green Hornet.
They had a nickname for everything, from their costumes to the bus.
That bus looked mighty important rolling into a town or rolling down the interstate.
We know the buses that we ride on these days are totally tricked out and totally _ luxurious.
They're like lanyards or like train cars.
But that was the first bus in Nashville that was really organized and put together by a
guy named Hoot Borden, the dean of country drivers.
And we did a lot of shows with Ernest Tubb when I was with Lester Flatt's band.
And the thing about it was that Lester's bus was really somber.
They'd turn the lights off at night and the only thing you could see was the red cigarette
ash burning on cigarettes going down the road.
So it was really quiet and somber.
That bus, on the other hand, was like a rolling frat house.
That's where I wanted to be.
These guys worked over 300 and something shows a year, every year.
So it was home to those guys.
They had organization for their costumes.
They had band rules.
They had fines if you cussed on Sunday and left your hat on the bunk.
It was just this rolling craziness.
But the deeper meaning of that bus to me is that our TV in Mississippi was black and white.
And I used to love to watch those old country music shows with their costumes that sparkled and everything.
So I saw it in black and white.
But the day that this bus and that band rolled into my hometown to play the county fair,
those guys stepped off that bus wearing matching cowboy suits.
I think they were pink and white.
Ernest had on this beautiful pinstripe suit with a white hat.
He looked 40 feet tall to me, playing those guitars I'd seen on TV in that green and black
and white bus.
It was a sight to behold.
I thought it was the prettiest thing I'd ever seen.
_ The funniest line I remember about that bus, there was an old guy named Don Helms that was playing
steel guitar with Ernest for a while.
He was the guy that played on all the Hank Williams records.
He was funny.
We played a concert with Ernest Tubb and the Texas Troubadours up at Sunset Park in Pennsylvania.
I asked Don Helms, I said,
How long y'all been out?
He said, Hoss, I lost count at 40 days.
I said, When are you going home?
He said, I don't know, but if this bus ever does, I'm getting off.
I'm never getting on a bus again.
In the early 90s, Brian Ahern, a great record producer, _ _ composed a record called
The Bradley Barn Sessions. _
_ He kind of put together an all-star band.
It was Vince and Ricky and me.
_ You'd have to check the credits, but there was a lot of star musicians that we made up the house band.
One by one, we had to stand up and go to the microphone and take our whipping with George.
George was just so great.
One of the people that came in outside of Nashville was Keith Richards,
one of the biggest George Jones fans in the world.
He loves George.
He brought the country-est song.
He brought the coolest song.
_ _ He was totally _ _ _ giddy about meeting George.
He really was.
Maybe a little nervous.
The beauty of it was, me and Keith are old buddies.
He came [N] to me and said, is everything going on good in Nashville?
I said, yeah, it's fine.
It's just really easy going.
George was on the other side of the door.
He called me and said, hey, Marty.
He said, what's that boy's name that's coming in here to sing with me?
I said, Keith Richards.
He said, yeah.
He said, what's that bunch he sings with?
I went, The Rolling Stones.
He said, are they hot?
I went, pretty hot.
After it was all over, the two of them hit it off immediately.
Immediately.
After it was all over and Keith was gone, George said, I like that old boy.
He reminds me of Woody Woodpecker. _ _ _
It was a great moment.
That's the moment they kind of met. _
Hank Williams' sister was named Irene.
_ _ She lived in Texas.
She asked a friend of mine one day in the early 90s if he knew me.
He said, yeah.
She wanted to meet me.
The next time we played in Texas, we sent for her.
She came out to our concert.
I got to know Irene.
We became friends.
_ Not long after that, we didn't have [Gb] long to get to know each other.
She passed away.
_ She was laid to rest next to her brother Hank down in Montgomery, Alabama.
Of course, Hank Jr.
came and his family was there.
[Eb] For some reason, I had my camera with me that day.
_ Two things I really, really remember about that day is as they were lowering her into the ground,
Hank Jr.
just started singing, I Saw the Light by Himself.
It was haunting.
Those family tones came up out of him from the ancient place.
_ But after it was all over, I saw Hank Jr.
with his little girl Katie in his arms.
He had his hand on his daddy's tombstone.
I heard him say to her, Honey, this was your grandpa.
His name was Hank Williams.
_ [B] That was a real touching moment. _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ Connie Smith came to the Choctaw Indian Fair in Philadelphia, [Eb] Mississippi in 1970, July.
So it was a big day for our family because of what I said, you know, mama's favorite
singer was coming to town.
And I thought she was the prettiest girl in the world.
I've still got the record covering her.
When Miss Smith goes to Nashville, I just walk by the stereo and look at her.
I thought she was beautiful.
And after the show, _ _ _ let's see, before the show, I had my mom take me to buy a yellow
shirt so she'd notice me.
So me and my sister got our picture made with Connie, got her autograph, but she didn't notice me.
And on the way out of the stadium where she played, I asked my mama, I said, can I borrow your camera?
She said, yeah.
And I went and found Connie sitting in this car.
And I said, Miss Smith, can I take your picture?
And she smiled for me and let me stick that camera almost on the end of her nose and take her picture.
And she still didn't notice me.
_ But I've said it a thousand times, but it's so true.
On the way home, I told mama, I said, I'm going to marry that girl someday on the way
home from that show.
But that was the first picture I ever remember taking in my life.
_ The Ernest Tubb bus was called the Green Hornet.
They had a nickname for everything, from their costumes to the bus.
That bus looked mighty important rolling into a town or rolling down the interstate.
We know the buses that we ride on these days are totally tricked out and totally _ luxurious.
They're like lanyards or like train cars.
But that was the first bus in Nashville that was really organized and put together by a
guy named Hoot Borden, the dean of country drivers.
And we did a lot of shows with Ernest Tubb when I was with Lester Flatt's band.
And the thing about it was that Lester's bus was really somber.
They'd turn the lights off at night and the only thing you could see was the red cigarette
ash burning on cigarettes going down the road.
So it was really quiet and somber.
That bus, on the other hand, was like a rolling frat house.
That's where I wanted to be.
These guys worked over 300 and something shows a year, every year.
So it was home to those guys.
They had organization for their costumes.
They had band rules.
They had fines if you cussed on Sunday and left your hat on the bunk.
It was just this rolling craziness.
But the deeper meaning of that bus to me is that our TV in Mississippi was black and white.
And I used to love to watch those old country music shows with their costumes that sparkled and everything.
So I saw it in black and white.
But the day that this bus and that band rolled into my hometown to play the county fair,
those guys stepped off that bus wearing matching cowboy suits.
I think they were pink and white.
Ernest had on this beautiful pinstripe suit with a white hat.
He looked 40 feet tall to me, playing those guitars I'd seen on TV in that green and black
and white bus.
It was a sight to behold.
I thought it was the prettiest thing I'd ever seen.
_ The funniest line I remember about that bus, there was an old guy named Don Helms that was playing
steel guitar with Ernest for a while.
He was the guy that played on all the Hank Williams records.
He was funny.
We played a concert with Ernest Tubb and the Texas Troubadours up at Sunset Park in Pennsylvania.
I asked Don Helms, I said,
How long y'all been out?
He said, Hoss, I lost count at 40 days.
I said, When are you going home?
He said, I don't know, but if this bus ever does, I'm getting off.
I'm never getting on a bus again.
In the early 90s, Brian Ahern, a great record producer, _ _ composed a record called
The Bradley Barn Sessions. _
_ He kind of put together an all-star band.
It was Vince and Ricky and me.
_ You'd have to check the credits, but there was a lot of star musicians that we made up the house band.
One by one, we had to stand up and go to the microphone and take our whipping with George.
George was just so great.
One of the people that came in outside of Nashville was Keith Richards,
one of the biggest George Jones fans in the world.
He loves George.
He brought the country-est song.
He brought the coolest song.
_ _ He was totally _ _ _ giddy about meeting George.
He really was.
Maybe a little nervous.
The beauty of it was, me and Keith are old buddies.
He came [N] to me and said, is everything going on good in Nashville?
I said, yeah, it's fine.
It's just really easy going.
George was on the other side of the door.
He called me and said, hey, Marty.
He said, what's that boy's name that's coming in here to sing with me?
I said, Keith Richards.
He said, yeah.
He said, what's that bunch he sings with?
I went, The Rolling Stones.
He said, are they hot?
I went, pretty hot.
After it was all over, the two of them hit it off immediately.
Immediately.
After it was all over and Keith was gone, George said, I like that old boy.
He reminds me of Woody Woodpecker. _ _ _
It was a great moment.
That's the moment they kind of met. _
Hank Williams' sister was named Irene.
_ _ She lived in Texas.
She asked a friend of mine one day in the early 90s if he knew me.
He said, yeah.
She wanted to meet me.
The next time we played in Texas, we sent for her.
She came out to our concert.
I got to know Irene.
We became friends.
_ Not long after that, we didn't have [Gb] long to get to know each other.
She passed away.
_ She was laid to rest next to her brother Hank down in Montgomery, Alabama.
Of course, Hank Jr.
came and his family was there.
[Eb] For some reason, I had my camera with me that day.
_ Two things I really, really remember about that day is as they were lowering her into the ground,
Hank Jr.
just started singing, I Saw the Light by Himself.
It was haunting.
Those family tones came up out of him from the ancient place.
_ But after it was all over, I saw Hank Jr.
with his little girl Katie in his arms.
He had his hand on his daddy's tombstone.
I heard him say to her, Honey, this was your grandpa.
His name was Hank Williams.
_ [B] That was a real touching moment. _ _