Chords for Ralph Stanley - Room at the Top of the Stairs

_ _ _ _ Thank you very much.
Ladies and gentlemen, singing Room at the Top of the Stairs, my old pal Ralph Stanley.
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_ _ _ She lives all alone on a dark windy street [E] in a room [B] at the top of _ _ the stairs.
She smokes cigarettes and stalks up the walls.
[E] I know [B] my heart lives out _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ [C#m] _ [B] _
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_ _ _ [E] _ _ [C#m] _ [B] _ _
_ _ _ in the cool of the night.
She takes me inside [E] and helps [B] with my troubled things.
_ She's warm, she's sweet, her kisses leave me weak.
[E] I love it when [B] she touches my face. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [B] _ _ She talks about the past, the sorrow and regret.
[E] She cries [B] about the gray in her eyes.
_ But I love her so much that she doesn't want to leave.
That any man in life could ever care. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ I wish I didn't have, when she was a [E] girl, the poor luck [B] that's treating her unfair.
_ She wouldn't be so sad, and she wouldn't live alone [E] in a room [B] at the top of the stairs.
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Oh, that's good, Ralph.
Yes, sir. _ _
_ Oh, that's that _ lonesome sound.
_ _ _ Southwestern part of Virginia, eastern Kentucky, _ northeastern Tennessee.
Right in there.
It's laid in there, ain't it?
Yes, sir.
I tell you, that's the kind of music that just thrills my soul.
_ We want to remind everybody to stay tuned to TNN, following Nashville Now for New Country.
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Ralph, I want to ask you, where are you going to be playing the next few days or weeks so folks can go see you?
Okay, let's see.
So I hear you sang Little Maggie and Manacost and Sorrow and How Mountain Girls Can Love and Lonesome River and White Dove.
Just all them good old ones.
All them good old ones, yeah.
Let's see, I'll try to remember some of them.
On the 28th of February, we're going to be in Centerville, Virginia.
It's Pardners II.
And of course on March 3rd, we're going to be [C#] at [N]
Grand Central Station in Hazard, Kentucky.
And the 6th and 7th of April, Big Bluegrass Festival in Kissimmee, Florida.
Okay.
I would like to say that Legends of Bluegrass has got a lot of fine shows, Ricky, on the road this year.
That includes Bill Monroe, Jim and Jesse, Mack Wiseman and Ralph Stanley.
And we've got a lot of good things lined up this season.
Well, I'd like to see that.
I certainly would.
When is that?
Did your mic go out, Ralph?
_ _ I guess.
They need to keep batteries and them dang things.
You mean I have to use this mic?
Does my mic go out?
Yeah, now you're going.
Okay.
Where are those, where's the Bluegrass, what's it called again?
The Legends of Bluegrass.
Okay, Legends of Bluegrass.
And I believe our next show is May the 10th in Walsall, Wisconsin.
All right.
Boy, don't miss that.
That'll be great.
I guarantee it.
Oh, yeah, Curly Ray Kline, you know, he's my, as Melvin said, my old compadre.
Your old compadre?
He wanted me to mention Pike County, Kentucky.
We're going to be at the M&M Toyota sales on _ April the 9th.
Is Curly getting him a new car out of that, is that the reason?
Well, that's what he's hoping, and we're going to_
That kind of a plug, they ought to give you a truck and a car both.
And that's located on North 23, two mile out of Pikeville, Kentucky.
All right, great.