Chords for Mike Compton, Jesse Cobb, Sharon Gilchrist - Paddy on the Turnpike

[N] The blue grass is [C] the blue part.
And that's the [Ab] reason that I listen to Bill Monroe
and primarily the traditional players,
because I hear blue [Gb] notes in what they're doing.
[A] I started [G] out life as a trombone player
and moved [Ab] _ _ from there _ into 15-year-old girls.
_ [A] And then _ from there, I moved into guitar for about a year.
And then [F] I've got a [Gb] Sears Roebuck mandolin for Christmas.
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_ [A] _ And I started playing that because [G] there had been [Ab] a [A] fiddle
that came [Gbm] down the line.
_ _ [Fm] _ [Ab] My neighborhood, it belonged to a great [E]-grandfather of mine.
And one of my cousins [Ab] who lived right down the road inherited [A] it.
And I coveted the thing. _
_ _ [Gbm] And I decided to take up the mandolin
because [Ab] it was tuned the same.
_ _ There was no one around, really, to [F] learn from at all.
Nobody played any kind of mandolin [A] _ _
style [G] there.
So [Ab] everything I learned [G] was listening to records.
Like Jesse said, [E] _ _ I [A] had been [Ab] on the lawn _ [A] every _ LT [G] up
until that [Fm] point _ that Bill Monroe [A] had ever recorded.
_ And [Ab] it was mixed in with _ _ all of the records [Gb] from my childhood,
which ranged _ [E] from _ _ [Ab] _ Ray Charles [F] to Mitch Miller
[Dbm] _ and my mother and daddy's collection.
[Gb] So there was a smorgasbord of stuff
to [Ab] listen to running around in my head. _ _
I started listening _ [Bb] to Bill [Ab] because he sounded easier
than everybody else.
[Gb] Mm.
Mm. Mm. [E] Mm.
And _ _ [Ab] as the years went by, I realized
_ that I didn't know what I was talking about.
_ [A] _ _ _ I remember, _ [F] _ _ [A] I must have been about 17,
_ _ [E] sitting back _ _ _ and trying to play with the [Ab] records.
I had played the records so much that I
could tell what was on by the color of the spine _ _ on each one.
[Gbm] And my [G] mom came in.
They had [Ab] taken to going to the other end of the house.
_ _ _ And my sister's mom and dad always
stayed in the other end of the house.
And I stayed in my bedroom and tried to play [E] these mandolins. _
_ _ _ [Ab] _ And she came in one day [Gb] while I was in a [E] _ [Ab] powerful [E] quandary.
_ _ [Bb] _ [Ab] And she said, son, are you all right?
_ _ [Fm] And I was just in the [G] middle of having a meltdown.
And I said, I can't [E] understand _ where these notes are.
I've got to get in this guy's head.
I don't [Bb] understand how he thinks.
And I can't figure out where [E] all these notes are.
And I [Fm] freaked out for a minute.
And [Ab] I looked up and [G] the door was open.
[E] It was open.
_ [F] I got in.
I _ got in.
[Gb] I got in.
I got in.
I got in.
_ _ [Ab] She didn't say anything.
She just closed the door and walked [G] us out.
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_ _ I don't know.
[Am] and I've always been interested in _ _ _ sort of the darker sound [Ab] and music just for the notes,
the darker _ [A] side, not [Ab] always real happy and [A] you know effervescent but the stuff that
_ is kind of low down _ _ and um _ _ but listen to a lot of a lot of blues _ and just [C] follow tangents
quite often [A] _ depends [Bbm] just wherever it [A] takes. _ _ _
[Ab] I'd like to _ finish this thing up [G] today _
with uh for tuning G and we've worked on [E] this a little bit in class.
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[Ab] _ This [G] is for the folks who have been _ _ having me beat [Gb] Robby and them all week with [G] this. _
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