Chords for Piano Lessons

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_ _ [Abm] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [N] Oh, lookie there.
Whining boy!
What you doing here?
Where you coming from?
Where you been?
I been down in Kansas City.
Hey, you remember Limey Limey Jackson?
Yeah, yeah.
This my Uncle Whining Boy.
Now I used to know his dad.
Hey, don't go say Bernice asked you for _ $3,
_ and you got mad and left.
Oh, shoot.
Bernice tried to rule over you too much for me.
That's why I left.
Oh, no, no, no, no.
There wasn't about no $3.
Hey, hey, don't go tell you about Summer.
The ghosts of the yellow dog got him about three weeks ago.
Bernice done seen his ghost and everything.
_ _ _ Now how many of that made it?
That the ghosts of the yellow dog done?
I don't know.
Must be about nine or ten.
Hey, Bernice say she don't believe in all that about the ghosts of the yellow dog.
Bernice ain't got to believe it.
You go down there in Sunflower County and ask them white folks to see if they believe it.
_ I don't care if Bernice believe it or not.
I done been to where the tracks of the Southern Railroad cross the tracks of the yellow dog
and called out the names of the ghosts.
And they talked back to you too.
Whoa.
You done been there for real while and boy, in 1930.
_ _ July 19 [Cm] and 30.
_ I stood right there on that spot. _ _
[F] [G] Didn't seem like nothing was going right in my life.
So I said, well, let me [Fm] go down there to the ghosts of the yellow dog,
call on them and see if they can help.
I went down there, stood right there on that spot and called [Cm] out their names.
Called out the names of the ghosts.
I didn't want to leave.
And it seemed like the longer I stood there, the [G] bigger I got.
I seen the train coming and it seemed like I got bigger than the train.
Started not to move.
_ [C] _
[Cm] Something told me to go head on and get out of the way.
_ I walked away from there, I was feeling like a king.
[F] Had a stroke of luck that lasted for three [Fm] years.
So see, I don't care if Bernice [G] believe it or not.
I know because I've been there.
Bernice don't believe in nothing.
She just thinks she believe it.
Oh, now let's not get on Bernice now.
Hey, Doker tell me that you going to buy Sutter's land.
Mm-hmm.
_ How you know Sutter's brother ain't sold that land already?
Uh-uh.
He say he waiting on me.
Now you know he going to sell that land to the first one walk up there and hand him the money.
That's just who I'm going to be.
Look, you ain't got to know he waiting on me.
I know, I know what the [N] man told me.
The man say waiting on me, waiting on me. _
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_ Uh-uh, Doker.
Come on, give me a drink.
I see wine and boy got his glass.
_ _ Wine and boy.
_ _ _ Hey, Doker tell me they had you and Limer down in the penitentiary on Parchment Farm.
Had you all down there on my old stomping ground.
Yeah, they looking for Limer down there now.
Rounded him up, put him in jail for not working.
Mm-hmm.
Find me $100.
_ Mr.
Stovall come and paid my $100.
And the judge say I got to work for him to pay him back his $100.
I told him I'd rather take my 30 days, but he wouldn't let me do that.
As soon as Stovall turned his back, Limer was gone.
I told Boy Winner I'm staying up here.
I ain't going back with him.
They treat you better up here.
I ain't worried about nobody mistreating me.
They treat you like you let them treat you.
They mistreat me, I mistreat them right back.
Ain't no difference in me and the white man.
Well, now I'll tell you the difference between the colored man and the white man.
The colored man can't fix nothing with the law.
Now that's the difference between the colored man and the white man.
Oh, it don't matter to me what the law say.
The law liable to say anything.
I take a look at it for myself.
Mm-hmm, and that's why you going to end up back down there on the Parchment Farm.
Ha ha ha ha!
I ain't thinking about no Parchment Farm.
You liable to go back before I do.
They had linemen down there singing, Bird up, Bird up.
No, they didn't.
What are you going to tell that line?
He said he been in no Parchment Penitentiary.
He said. _ _ _ _ _
Hold on. _ _ _ _ _
[B] Bird up.
_ _ Bird up.
_ _ _ Hold _ on _ down, _ willow. _
_ Go ahead and marry, _ don't you.
_ _ Wait _ on me, _ oh, I.
_ Go ahead and marry, don't you.
_ _ Wait on me, _ willow. _
Might _ not want you when _ _ I go free.
Wait on me, oh, I.
Might _ not want you when I _ go _ free.
Wait on me, willow.
_ _ Hold _ _ _ _ _ _ on down, _ _ _ _ hold on.
Bird _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ [B] _ up.
Raise them up high.
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[N] _ _ _ _ Raise them up high. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ I'm on no Parchment got down.
Work all day, [B] oh, I.
I'm on no Parchment got down.
Work all day, willow.
_ Oh, I, bird up, bird up.
Hold on down, oh, I. _
Oh, I, bird up, bird up.
Hold on down, willow.
When [Abm] you marry, don't you marry, I.
_ Farmhand man, oh, I.
Every day is Monday, oh, I.
In your hand, will now.
When you marry, marry, I.
_ Railroad man, oh, I.
Every day is Sunday, now, [C] I.
In your hand, will now.
_ Oh, I, bird up, bird up.
Oh, Lord, gal, oh, _ _ _ Alberta. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Bm] I feel like getting [A] a real, like getting a real. _
[B] Hey, wine boy, [N] come on, play some piano.
You play piano, come on, play.
Lyman want to hear you play.
Oh, shoot, I give that piano.
That's a nice piano.
If I knew how to play it, I would play it.
Otherwise, I would sell it, because you can get a nice price for that piano.
That's right.
Mm-hmm. _
Now, I'm going to tell you something. _ _ _
Now, Lyman don't know this.
_ _ But I'm going to tell you why me and wine and boy say Bernice ain't going to sell that piano.
She _ _ ain't got to sell it. _ _
_ _ I'm going to sell it.
Now, Bernice ain't got no more rights to that piano than I do.
I'm talking to the man. _ _ _ _
Now, let me talk to the man. _ _ _ _
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