Chords for Mel Besher at the Bluebird - Pee Wee & Fern

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Okay, all right. _ _ _ _
Yeah, this is a song that [F] uh, _ yeah the rest of the story _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ About a day before [Bb] Thanksgiving, a few Thanksgiving's ago
_ I was sitting [Bb] with Harley Allen [D] one day, we were trying to figure [Dm] out what to write and we had just about given up
[F] And I said well, that's okay because I got to get [B] back and uh
_ [G] Meet Pee-ween Fern at the house
[D] _
[Db] _ _ [D] And I said Pee-ween Fern, that's my mom and dad's name, and he said [E] well, let's write that _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ _ About 10 minutes later we were done _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ So and Clay Lynch recorded this, did a great job on it
So _ it kind of tells part of it
_ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ _ _ Born Melvin Vernon in depression days _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bb]
Got [Ab] _ my top [F] string up _ _
[G] I _ gotta have this in tune, I _
[Bb] was anti [C]-climactic _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _
Born Melvin Vernon in _ depression [Bb] days
_ [F] _ Not enough to eat so [C] he was small for his [Bb] age
_ [F] He always said that he could not [Bb] be tamed
[Dm] _ _ I'll do [F] big things just the [C] same if [F] Pee-ween is my name _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Fern was working in a
_ [Bb]
Restaurant
[F] _ _ _ Pee-ween said [Bb] the [C] coffee's not [Am] so hot
_ [F] _
She [C] just looked at him [F] so
_ [Bb] _
_ [Dm] Unconcerned
_ But the whole [C] world seemed to turn when Pee-ween looked at [F]
Fern
_ And [Bb] it's another great [Eb] American [Am] love story _ _ _
[Gm] This time it [D] just happened in [Bb]
Missouri
_ _ _ _ [F] Two common people with an uncommon [Bb] love
_ _ _ _ [D] Scholars and [C] the poets they could learn from Pee-ween
_ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ They saved their money and they made their [Bb] way _
_ [C] They made it even out of dirt and clay
[Bb] _ _ [F] They worked the crops and raised a _ [Bb] family
_ [C] _ And in Missouri love still burns for Pee-ween and Fern
_ And [Bb] it's another great [C] American love story
[Am] _ _ _ _
[Gm] This time it just happened in [Bb]
Missouri
_ _ _ _ [F] Two [Bb] common people with [F] an uncommon _ _ love
_ _ [A] Scholars [D] and the [Bb] poets they could [C] learn from [Am] Pee-ween
[F] Yes, _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Dm] _ the scholars and the poets they could [C] learn from Pee [F]-ween and [Bb] Fern
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