Chords for Roy Acuff - Great Speckled Bird

I think I'm about as nervous as I was the first night. _ _
Oh, that's wonderful.
So from the fiddle and the fiddle music for the square dancers on the Grand Ole Opry, _
a great artist walked to the microphone one night and sung a song
and almost got fired because he sung instead of played the fiddle.
And I want you to do the first song that you sung on the Grand Ole Opry.
I'm going to try to do it.
You got me nervous.
Now listen, _ _ _ on our way down, see, for [C#] the audition,
this is all a true story that I tell.
_ _ We talked about what to do on the program.
We knew that I was going to fill in for Arthur Smith,
one of the finest of the fiddlers at that time. _
And I said, well, I ought to sing The Great Speckled Bird.
They said, no, they want you to fiddle.
[C] I said, yes, but all of our mail in Knoxville is for The Great Speckled Bird.
And I said, I think that I'm looking for a job down there, not [A#] just to fiddle.
I'm going to get on if I can.
And [A] I finally talked them into letting me sing The Speckled Bird,
and that's where the mail come in from.
So we'll do it.
Let's hear it.
Will you roll it?
_ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ What a _ beautiful _ thought I [C] am thinking
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ Concerning a great _ [G] speckled bird
_ _ _ _ _ Remember _ her name _ [C] is recorded
_ _ _ _ _ On the _ pages of _ God's holy [G] word
_ [B] _ _ _ _ _
_ Desiring to _ lower her [C] standard _ _ _ _ _
[D] They watch every move that [G] she makes
_ _ _ They _ long to find fault [D] _
[C] with her teaching _ _ _ _
[D] But _ really they find _ [G] no mistake _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Am] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ I am glad I have learned of [C] her meekness
_ _ I _ [D] am proud that my name is [G] on her book
For _ _ _ I want to be one _ [C] never peering
_ _ The _ _
[D] _ face of my _ Savior's [G] true love
_ _ _ When he _ cometh _ descending [C] from heaven
_ _ On _ [D] the _ clouds as he writes in [G] his word
_ _ _ I'll be _ joyfully _ [Dm] carried to [C] meet him
_ _ _ On [D] the wings of that great _ _
[G] speckled bird
[F] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _ _