Chords for Ray Wylie Hubbard tells us a Ringo Starr Road Story on The Texas Music Scene
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135.05 bpm
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Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[C] [G]
[A#] [C] [G]
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[F] [A#] [C]
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Welcome back [C] to the Texas music [Em] scene, folks.
Well, it's time for a road [D] story.
[G#m] And Ray Wiley Hubbard recently got to rub [D] elbows and make big pals with a beetle.
I mean, [C#] Ringo Beetle.
No big deal.
[Em] [A]
Ted like tongue, I but his roots.
[D] I feed it to the mice around the chicken [A] coop.
I get this phone call, I guess, about [E] a couple [A] of years ago.
This guy [C#] calls me up and he says, [A] [E] he says, go to Ringo [A] [F#] Starr's [A] website.
I go, what for?
And he goes, Ringo's talking about you.
So I go to Ringo Starr's website.
And I said, here's a little thing of where Ringo's doing what he [C#] listens to each [C] month.
So he's talking about, oh, I got this, [F#] some beetle things from George [E] Martin I'm listening to.
And I'm listening to Bob [G] Dylan.
And he goes, [G#m] and I'm listening to this [E] Ray Wiley Hubbard [Cm] guy from Texas doing snake farm.
[D] And it just, whoa, how weird was that?
I found out what happened [G] was [F] the guy named Brent Carpenter, who does all [G] the videos for [C] Ringo,
had come to McCabe's that's playing out [D] in Santa Monica.
And he bought snake [G] farm because the snake farm came out.
So he burned [D] a copy for Ringo.
[Em] Didn't even buy him a copy, burned [F#] him a copy and gave it to [G] Ringo.
And said, [D#] there's this weird guy [G] in Texas I think you'll like.
[E] You know, Ringo played it, [F#] did the little video.
So the next [C] time I'm out there, we're [C#] playing McCabe's, [F] I was trying to get this phone [D] call.
And it's from Brent Carpenter.
He said, [G] Ringo's playing in the Greek theater.
[C]
You know, come out and wants to meet you.
So [D] I go out there with Rick Richards.
So we meet Ringo.
And [D#] so we're backstage.
He's just, he's really [C] impressed that I travel with just [G] a drummer.
He thought that was brilliant.
So [A] he said, when I do, with a little help from my friends, come out and sing with me.
Which was great that he asked me, but he obviously didn't tell security.
But it was [D] really cool.
[B] Ringo's a really big [D] fan of Lightnin' Hopkins.
We were [A] talking about Lightnin' Hopkins.
He tells this story when he was 16 or [D] 17 that the sailors, [Gm] you know, American sailors would [G] come to Liverpool.
[D#] And they'd bring [D] albums and somebody brought him a Lightnin' Hopkins [A] album.
So he said he loved Lightnin' Hopkins and he was from Houston.
So he and [F#] a buddy were going to go down and get their visa [D#] and come to Houston and work in the oil fields.
I mean [A] the refineries down there.
So that they could meet Lightnin' Hopkins.
And he said, so I went down there and tried to fill [Dm] out all the forms for a visa.
But for a 17 [D]-year-old English [Em]
boy to try [G] to figure out all those forms, we couldn't [D] do it.
So I said, I blew that off.
Got some [A] drums.
[C]
[G] It's not answering.
[C] [F#] [Am]
[E] Hello?
[Gm] Ringo, it's Ray.
Who?
Ray Wiley [F#] Hubbard.
The Texas [D] snake farm guy.
[A#] Snake farm just sounds nasty.
Ooh, that guy.
[D#] Oh, Ray.
How are you, Ray?
How are you doing?
[F#] I'm doing [G] great.
Doing great.
Hey, listen.
I [F#] hate to bother you.
I know you're real busy and everything.
But I want to tell [Em] you that I recorded one of your songs on my new [G#m] record, The Grifter's [G] Hymnal.
Great.
Which track have you recorded?
Photograph?
[G#] No, I recorded the old blues song, Coochie Coochie, off your record, [C#] Boo Coos the Blues.
Coochie [G] Coochie. My God.
[G#m] That's great news.
Talking one time about songwriting.
[D] And I mentioned that one of my favorite tracks was this bonus track on Boo [Dm] Coos the Blues.
[G] And I called Coochie Coochie.
He goes, oh yeah.
And I said, [D#] yeah, man, I love that song.
It's [D] just one chord.
So he said, oh yeah.
And I said, well, man, I might [Gm] cut it.
And he said, I'd like to hear that.
You know, we're at the [D] church recording this thing.
And I had a resonator.
And Ollie Freed had a mandolin.
And Rick Richards had a bird feeder with seed in it and a kick drum.
And I'm sure he plays bass.
And he actually had a 12-string guitar.
[Dm] So I said, Steve, push the [D] button.
So he just pushed the red button.
And we did it just straight through.
[Am] And then we sent [G] it to him.
And all of a sudden, I get this phone [F] call from Ringo.
He said, I love it.
[E] He said, [F#] the drums are so [D#] good on it.
I don't need to play drums.
I'll just play [Gm] shakers and sing [D] on it.
So pretty cool.
I've got a Beatle on my record.
[Dm] [E]
That's kind of a [F#] very prestigious thing from a [D] kid from Oak Cliff.
I got everything I ever wanted.
And everything I wanted to do.
Where are you my coochie coochie, coochie coochie coo?
[A#] [C] [G]
[F] [D#]
[F] [A#] [C]
[G]
[E]
Welcome back [C] to the Texas music [Em] scene, folks.
Well, it's time for a road [D] story.
[G#m] And Ray Wiley Hubbard recently got to rub [D] elbows and make big pals with a beetle.
I mean, [C#] Ringo Beetle.
No big deal.
[Em] [A]
Ted like tongue, I but his roots.
[D] I feed it to the mice around the chicken [A] coop.
I get this phone call, I guess, about [E] a couple [A] of years ago.
This guy [C#] calls me up and he says, [A] [E] he says, go to Ringo [A] [F#] Starr's [A] website.
I go, what for?
And he goes, Ringo's talking about you.
So I go to Ringo Starr's website.
And I said, here's a little thing of where Ringo's doing what he [C#] listens to each [C] month.
So he's talking about, oh, I got this, [F#] some beetle things from George [E] Martin I'm listening to.
And I'm listening to Bob [G] Dylan.
And he goes, [G#m] and I'm listening to this [E] Ray Wiley Hubbard [Cm] guy from Texas doing snake farm.
[D] And it just, whoa, how weird was that?
I found out what happened [G] was [F] the guy named Brent Carpenter, who does all [G] the videos for [C] Ringo,
had come to McCabe's that's playing out [D] in Santa Monica.
And he bought snake [G] farm because the snake farm came out.
So he burned [D] a copy for Ringo.
[Em] Didn't even buy him a copy, burned [F#] him a copy and gave it to [G] Ringo.
And said, [D#] there's this weird guy [G] in Texas I think you'll like.
[E] You know, Ringo played it, [F#] did the little video.
So the next [C] time I'm out there, we're [C#] playing McCabe's, [F] I was trying to get this phone [D] call.
And it's from Brent Carpenter.
He said, [G] Ringo's playing in the Greek theater.
[C]
You know, come out and wants to meet you.
So [D] I go out there with Rick Richards.
So we meet Ringo.
And [D#] so we're backstage.
He's just, he's really [C] impressed that I travel with just [G] a drummer.
He thought that was brilliant.
So [A] he said, when I do, with a little help from my friends, come out and sing with me.
Which was great that he asked me, but he obviously didn't tell security.
But it was [D] really cool.
[B] Ringo's a really big [D] fan of Lightnin' Hopkins.
We were [A] talking about Lightnin' Hopkins.
He tells this story when he was 16 or [D] 17 that the sailors, [Gm] you know, American sailors would [G] come to Liverpool.
[D#] And they'd bring [D] albums and somebody brought him a Lightnin' Hopkins [A] album.
So he said he loved Lightnin' Hopkins and he was from Houston.
So he and [F#] a buddy were going to go down and get their visa [D#] and come to Houston and work in the oil fields.
I mean [A] the refineries down there.
So that they could meet Lightnin' Hopkins.
And he said, so I went down there and tried to fill [Dm] out all the forms for a visa.
But for a 17 [D]-year-old English [Em]
boy to try [G] to figure out all those forms, we couldn't [D] do it.
So I said, I blew that off.
Got some [A] drums.
[C]
[G] It's not answering.
[C] [F#] [Am]
[E] Hello?
[Gm] Ringo, it's Ray.
Who?
Ray Wiley [F#] Hubbard.
The Texas [D] snake farm guy.
[A#] Snake farm just sounds nasty.
Ooh, that guy.
[D#] Oh, Ray.
How are you, Ray?
How are you doing?
[F#] I'm doing [G] great.
Doing great.
Hey, listen.
I [F#] hate to bother you.
I know you're real busy and everything.
But I want to tell [Em] you that I recorded one of your songs on my new [G#m] record, The Grifter's [G] Hymnal.
Great.
Which track have you recorded?
Photograph?
[G#] No, I recorded the old blues song, Coochie Coochie, off your record, [C#] Boo Coos the Blues.
Coochie [G] Coochie. My God.
[G#m] That's great news.
Talking one time about songwriting.
[D] And I mentioned that one of my favorite tracks was this bonus track on Boo [Dm] Coos the Blues.
[G] And I called Coochie Coochie.
He goes, oh yeah.
And I said, [D#] yeah, man, I love that song.
It's [D] just one chord.
So he said, oh yeah.
And I said, well, man, I might [Gm] cut it.
And he said, I'd like to hear that.
You know, we're at the [D] church recording this thing.
And I had a resonator.
And Ollie Freed had a mandolin.
And Rick Richards had a bird feeder with seed in it and a kick drum.
And I'm sure he plays bass.
And he actually had a 12-string guitar.
[Dm] So I said, Steve, push the [D] button.
So he just pushed the red button.
And we did it just straight through.
[Am] And then we sent [G] it to him.
And all of a sudden, I get this phone [F] call from Ringo.
He said, I love it.
[E] He said, [F#] the drums are so [D#] good on it.
I don't need to play drums.
I'll just play [Gm] shakers and sing [D] on it.
So pretty cool.
I've got a Beatle on my record.
[Dm] [E]
That's kind of a [F#] very prestigious thing from a [D] kid from Oak Cliff.
I got everything I ever wanted.
And everything I wanted to do.
Where are you my coochie coochie, coochie coochie coo?
Key:
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_ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
Welcome back [C] to the Texas music [Em] scene, folks.
Well, it's time for a road [D] story.
[G#m] And Ray Wiley Hubbard recently got to rub [D] elbows and make big pals with a beetle.
I mean, [C#] Ringo Beetle.
No big deal.
[Em] _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Ted like tongue, I but his roots.
[D] I feed it to the mice around the chicken [A] coop.
I get this phone call, I guess, about [E] a couple [A] of years ago.
This guy [C#] calls me up and he says, [A] _ [E] he says, go to Ringo [A] [F#] Starr's [A] website.
I go, what for?
And he goes, Ringo's talking about you.
So I go to Ringo Starr's website.
And I said, here's a little thing of where Ringo's doing what he [C#] listens to each [C] month.
So he's talking about, oh, I got this, [F#] some beetle things from George [E] Martin I'm listening to.
And I'm listening to Bob [G] Dylan.
And he goes, [G#m] and I'm listening to this [E] Ray Wiley Hubbard [Cm] guy from Texas doing snake farm.
[D] And it just, whoa, how weird was that?
I found out what happened [G] was [F] the guy named Brent Carpenter, who does all [G] the videos for [C] Ringo,
had come to McCabe's that's playing out [D] in Santa Monica.
_ And he bought snake [G] farm because the snake farm came out.
So he burned [D] a copy for Ringo.
[Em] Didn't even buy him a copy, burned [F#] him a copy and gave it to [G] Ringo.
And said, [D#] there's this weird guy [G] in Texas I think you'll like.
[E] You know, Ringo played it, [F#] did the little video.
So the next [C] time I'm out there, we're [C#] playing McCabe's, [F] I was trying to get this phone [D] call.
And it's from Brent Carpenter.
He said, [G] Ringo's playing in the Greek theater.
[C]
You know, come out and wants to meet you.
So [D] I go out there with Rick Richards.
So we meet Ringo.
And [D#] so we're backstage.
He's just, he's really [C] impressed that I travel with just [G] a drummer.
He thought that was brilliant.
So [A] he said, when I do, with a little help from my friends, come out and sing with me.
Which was great that he asked me, but he obviously didn't tell security.
But it was [D] really cool.
[B] Ringo's a really big [D] fan of Lightnin' Hopkins.
We were [A] talking about Lightnin' Hopkins.
He tells this story when he was 16 or [D] 17 that the sailors, [Gm] you know, American sailors would [G] come to Liverpool.
[D#] And they'd bring [D] albums and somebody brought him a Lightnin' Hopkins [A] album.
So he said he loved Lightnin' Hopkins and he was from Houston.
_ So he and [F#] a buddy were going to go down and get their visa [D#] and come to Houston and work in the oil fields.
I mean [A] the refineries down there.
So that they could meet Lightnin' Hopkins.
And he said, so I went down there and tried to fill [Dm] out all the forms for a visa.
But for a 17 [D]-year-old English [Em]
boy to try [G] to figure out all those forms, we couldn't [D] do it.
So I said, I blew that off.
Got some [A] drums.
_ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ It's not answering.
[C] _ _ [F#] _ _ _ [Am] _
_ _ _ [E] Hello?
_ [Gm] Ringo, it's Ray.
Who?
_ _ Ray Wiley [F#] Hubbard.
The Texas [D] snake farm guy.
[A#] Snake farm just sounds nasty.
Ooh, that guy.
[D#] Oh, Ray.
How are you, Ray?
How are you doing?
[F#] I'm doing [G] great.
Doing great.
Hey, listen.
I [F#] hate to bother you.
I know you're real busy and everything.
But I want to tell [Em] you that I recorded one of your songs on my new [G#m] record, The Grifter's [G] Hymnal.
Great.
Which track have you recorded?
Photograph?
_ [G#] No, I recorded the old blues song, Coochie Coochie, off your record, [C#] Boo Coos the Blues.
Coochie [G] Coochie. My God.
[G#m] That's great news.
Talking one time about songwriting.
[D] And I mentioned that one of my favorite tracks was this bonus track on Boo [Dm] Coos the Blues.
_ [G] And I called Coochie Coochie.
He goes, oh yeah.
And I said, [D#] yeah, man, I love that song.
It's [D] just one chord.
_ So he said, oh yeah.
And I said, well, man, I might [Gm] cut it.
And he said, I'd like to hear that.
You know, we're at the [D] church recording this thing.
And I had a resonator.
And Ollie Freed had a mandolin.
And Rick Richards had a bird feeder with seed in it and a kick drum.
And I'm sure he plays bass.
And he actually had a 12-string guitar.
[Dm] So I said, Steve, push the [D] button.
So he just pushed the red button.
And we did it just straight through.
[Am] And then we sent [G] it to him.
And all of a sudden, I get this phone [F] call from Ringo.
He said, I love it.
[E] He said, [F#] the drums are so [D#] good on it.
I don't need to play drums.
I'll just play [Gm] shakers and sing [D] on it.
_ _ _ So pretty cool.
I've got a Beatle on my record.
_ [Dm] _ _ _ [E] _ _
That's kind of a [F#] very prestigious thing from a [D] kid from Oak Cliff.
_ _ _ I got everything I ever wanted. _ _ _ _
_ And everything I wanted to do.
Where are you my coochie coochie, coochie coochie coo?
[A#] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
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_ [F] _ _ _ [A#] _ _ [C] _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
Welcome back [C] to the Texas music [Em] scene, folks.
Well, it's time for a road [D] story.
[G#m] And Ray Wiley Hubbard recently got to rub [D] elbows and make big pals with a beetle.
I mean, [C#] Ringo Beetle.
No big deal.
[Em] _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Ted like tongue, I but his roots.
[D] I feed it to the mice around the chicken [A] coop.
I get this phone call, I guess, about [E] a couple [A] of years ago.
This guy [C#] calls me up and he says, [A] _ [E] he says, go to Ringo [A] [F#] Starr's [A] website.
I go, what for?
And he goes, Ringo's talking about you.
So I go to Ringo Starr's website.
And I said, here's a little thing of where Ringo's doing what he [C#] listens to each [C] month.
So he's talking about, oh, I got this, [F#] some beetle things from George [E] Martin I'm listening to.
And I'm listening to Bob [G] Dylan.
And he goes, [G#m] and I'm listening to this [E] Ray Wiley Hubbard [Cm] guy from Texas doing snake farm.
[D] And it just, whoa, how weird was that?
I found out what happened [G] was [F] the guy named Brent Carpenter, who does all [G] the videos for [C] Ringo,
had come to McCabe's that's playing out [D] in Santa Monica.
_ And he bought snake [G] farm because the snake farm came out.
So he burned [D] a copy for Ringo.
[Em] Didn't even buy him a copy, burned [F#] him a copy and gave it to [G] Ringo.
And said, [D#] there's this weird guy [G] in Texas I think you'll like.
[E] You know, Ringo played it, [F#] did the little video.
So the next [C] time I'm out there, we're [C#] playing McCabe's, [F] I was trying to get this phone [D] call.
And it's from Brent Carpenter.
He said, [G] Ringo's playing in the Greek theater.
[C]
You know, come out and wants to meet you.
So [D] I go out there with Rick Richards.
So we meet Ringo.
And [D#] so we're backstage.
He's just, he's really [C] impressed that I travel with just [G] a drummer.
He thought that was brilliant.
So [A] he said, when I do, with a little help from my friends, come out and sing with me.
Which was great that he asked me, but he obviously didn't tell security.
But it was [D] really cool.
[B] Ringo's a really big [D] fan of Lightnin' Hopkins.
We were [A] talking about Lightnin' Hopkins.
He tells this story when he was 16 or [D] 17 that the sailors, [Gm] you know, American sailors would [G] come to Liverpool.
[D#] And they'd bring [D] albums and somebody brought him a Lightnin' Hopkins [A] album.
So he said he loved Lightnin' Hopkins and he was from Houston.
_ So he and [F#] a buddy were going to go down and get their visa [D#] and come to Houston and work in the oil fields.
I mean [A] the refineries down there.
So that they could meet Lightnin' Hopkins.
And he said, so I went down there and tried to fill [Dm] out all the forms for a visa.
But for a 17 [D]-year-old English [Em]
boy to try [G] to figure out all those forms, we couldn't [D] do it.
So I said, I blew that off.
Got some [A] drums.
_ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ It's not answering.
[C] _ _ [F#] _ _ _ [Am] _
_ _ _ [E] Hello?
_ [Gm] Ringo, it's Ray.
Who?
_ _ Ray Wiley [F#] Hubbard.
The Texas [D] snake farm guy.
[A#] Snake farm just sounds nasty.
Ooh, that guy.
[D#] Oh, Ray.
How are you, Ray?
How are you doing?
[F#] I'm doing [G] great.
Doing great.
Hey, listen.
I [F#] hate to bother you.
I know you're real busy and everything.
But I want to tell [Em] you that I recorded one of your songs on my new [G#m] record, The Grifter's [G] Hymnal.
Great.
Which track have you recorded?
Photograph?
_ [G#] No, I recorded the old blues song, Coochie Coochie, off your record, [C#] Boo Coos the Blues.
Coochie [G] Coochie. My God.
[G#m] That's great news.
Talking one time about songwriting.
[D] And I mentioned that one of my favorite tracks was this bonus track on Boo [Dm] Coos the Blues.
_ [G] And I called Coochie Coochie.
He goes, oh yeah.
And I said, [D#] yeah, man, I love that song.
It's [D] just one chord.
_ So he said, oh yeah.
And I said, well, man, I might [Gm] cut it.
And he said, I'd like to hear that.
You know, we're at the [D] church recording this thing.
And I had a resonator.
And Ollie Freed had a mandolin.
And Rick Richards had a bird feeder with seed in it and a kick drum.
And I'm sure he plays bass.
And he actually had a 12-string guitar.
[Dm] So I said, Steve, push the [D] button.
So he just pushed the red button.
And we did it just straight through.
[Am] And then we sent [G] it to him.
And all of a sudden, I get this phone [F] call from Ringo.
He said, I love it.
[E] He said, [F#] the drums are so [D#] good on it.
I don't need to play drums.
I'll just play [Gm] shakers and sing [D] on it.
_ _ _ So pretty cool.
I've got a Beatle on my record.
_ [Dm] _ _ _ [E] _ _
That's kind of a [F#] very prestigious thing from a [D] kid from Oak Cliff.
_ _ _ I got everything I ever wanted. _ _ _ _
_ And everything I wanted to do.
Where are you my coochie coochie, coochie coochie coo?