Chords for Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with Jimmy Ibbotson, Dance Little Jean (50th Anniversary)

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_ _ _ _ _ Our next guest was a member of the nitty-gritty dirt band for decades and decades. _ _
_ _ _ He's a registered songwriter who's been playing in the great state of Colorado.
Please make welcome Mr.
Jimmy Emerson. _ _
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Thank you very much. _ _ _ _ _
It's an honor to be up here with the boys again.
_ It's been 12 years _ since I got on an airplane.
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And [N] there are very few things that would make me do it but coming here to the Ryman and getting to spread the ghosts and the [E] rafters.
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Oh, and y'all get some people on the [F] sunny side.
Oh, there was a bunch of [D] Carter girls up there.
_ [N] They haven't forgotten.
I'd like to say a special hello to folks in the audience who are older than we are.
Thank you so much. _ _ _ _ _
I know you don't think any of y'all but I can see the way you've done your hair.
_ _ _ _ [Fm] I'd like to do a song and I hope the boys will let me.
We rehearsed it and I [Em] think they're ready for it.
[E] Check, check.
It's [N] one about a failed marriage I had.
_ The marriage wasn't worth saving to be honest.
And the song has lasted much longer than the green photographs.
It was about a dream that my daughter Sarah Jean had about me getting back with him in [F#] college.
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[E] _ _ [A] _ [E] _ _ They waited for the money.
Now I wish I could have told [A] Brian I [F#m] love him.
_ _ _ _ [B] Just what I think of marriage.
What's in the store after their [Em] honeymoon? _
[A] _ _ [E] _ _ [G#m] And I [E] was grumbling to the dancers.
About how married we'd been all the [A] while.
_ _ _ _ [C#] And [B] how a promise never made could not be broken.
And could never [E] break apart.
_ _ _ _ Then suddenly from out of nowhere.
A little girl came dashing [A] across the floor.
_ _ _ _ And [B] out of their lands we fell in.
Beneath the skirt of calico [E] she wore.
[D#] _ [E] _ _ _ [D#] [E] What a joy and all the other guests, each one of us, was drawn to [A] a dream.
_ _ _ _ In [B] their loudest sounds, clap their hands and holler, dance little [E] Jean.
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[E] _ _ _ _ [A] They said, dance little Jean, [B] this day [E] is for you.
Two [C#m] people in love [F#] stood up and [B] said adieu.
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Dance little Jean, [B] pray as [E] you have.
The answer [A] today, [B] you must marry in your [E] head. _
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[A] _ [E] _ _ _ _ Well, my cynical heart just mellowed.
Once I figured what this gig [A] together meant.
_ _ _ _ _ [B] I had the tears and tears and sad confusion.
That the little [E] girl spent.
_ [D#] _ [E] _ _ _ [D#] [B] And [E] they told the band to pack it up.
By the time the cabook got [A] to bed.
_ _ _ _ _ Well, [B] we played as long as they stayed.
From the last little Jean [E] they saved.
I was a [A] happy little [E] girl.
_ And we [A] played dance little Jean, [B] this day is [E] for you.
Two people [C#m] in love [F#] stood up and said [B] adieu.
_ _ [A] Dance little Jean, [B] pray as you [E] have.
The answer [A] today, you [B] must marry in [E] your head.
_ [A] It was the answer today, [B] you must marry in your [E] head.
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