Chords for Nothin' Fancy Bluegrass Band "I Met My Baby In The Port A John Line" at Weeks Music in Buffalo MO

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_ _ _ I [Eb] keep on _
_ [A] screaming and screaming, obviously, I'm still very much, and you know, having
the lighting the way it is and being able [B] to see you folks just makes it that much [G] better
because we can tell by looking at you folks, a [A] bunch of romantic people in here.
_ _ _ You all know your wives [G] and husbands, all you guys, you just know your [E] husbands, little
wives [G] and girlfriends, _ all you [Dm] women, you're just so happy and in love with your [Bb] husbands
and boyfriends and neighbors and [Ab] girlfriends and others.
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_ _ [C] _ _ _ [D] _ Anyway, I sat [E] down one day and I [A] realized there's not enough love songs in Bluegrass
music, there's songs about drinking.
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Songs about killing.
Songs about women [Gb] killing a man because they drink too much.
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_ [D] _ _ _ A lot [C] of tragedy in Bluegrass music when you start [B] listening to the words.
[A] So maybe now I'm wondering how Ralph [B] Stanford made it this far.
_ [D] _ There's all sorts of balance to these things.
[Gb] _ Good stuff, but tragic.
So anyway, [A] I decided I was going to write the perfect Bluegrass [C] love song.
I believe I [A] did.
This thing's going to be bigger than Rocky Top before it's even_
_ _ [E] I [N] sung this song in [B] Buffalo, Missouri.
_ I'm going to do it tonight.
_ _ [F] We'll get bubbly. _
[N] _ _ _ I _ _ _ just want you to know that [A] _ _
stuff _ _ _ like that should mess with my life.
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_ [G] _ _ _ _ I don't know how to get drunk. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ I've got long hair, don't mean [A] I've got boot suits.
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_ _ _ I want to get back to where I was at.
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_ [A] _ So we're going to sing this love song for you folks here tonight.
_ We [N] have this recorded on our Reflection CD.
_ Because I know that it's going to mean so much to you, you don't want to take it home.
Put it on your stereo, play it loud so your neighbors can hear it. _
_ _ Because I know what they missed when I come up here tonight.
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_ _ [C] _ _ Well, [G] I met my baby in the port of Joplin.
_ I had to go to [D] sleep, so [G] I had to turn up.
[C] _ _ _ [G] I had to go to sleep, so I had to turn up.
I met my baby in the port of Joplin.
_ He [C] was standing there looking just like me.
[G] He had something in common, we both had the wealth. _
[C] _ _ _ I tried to move to [G] a place where my nerves made up for the suit.
Well, I didn't look anymore in the port of Joplin.
I had to go to [D] sleep looking so [G] ugly.
My eyes were open _ [C] up.
_ [G] I met my baby [D] in the port of [G] Joplin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ When [C] I broke the ice and I said,
She [G] said, I really can't talk.
I really got to go.
I [C] said, don't worry, we're in the same boat.
[G] She said, it's a good thing for [D] my mouth to make it open.
[G] I _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ had to go to sleep [D] looking so [G] ugly.
My eyes were [C] open up. _
_ [G] I met my [D] baby in the port of [G] Joplin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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After our turn, we met outside.
[G] We greeted each other with a funny smile.
She said, [C] I think you are the man for me.
I [D] said, it's funny how I look at it, but you [G] don't need me.
I met my baby in the port of Joplin.
_ I had to go to [D] sleep looking so ugly.
[G] My eyes were open [C] up.
_ _ [G] I met my baby [D] in the port of Joplin.
I met my baby in the port of Joplin.
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