Chords for Sam Bush - "Radio John" (Live Performance Video)

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_ _ _ Started out a-workin' in the summertime
_ [A] On the docks of the [D] Mississippi Valley barge line
Stokin' _ towboats on those long high days
Gettin' [A] half-days off [D] sometimes with pay
Became a steamboat captain, he wrote the songs to Mark Twain
[A] Rollin' down the river [D] to do [F#] RVs
Oh, [G] I can hear somethin' comin' up around the [D] bend
It's [G] the juya bell swing, blows gleamin' and steamin' [A] on me
_ _ [D] And it's Radio John standin' at the helm
[A] With a wave and a smile [D] and some yarns to tell _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ He loved life on the river and the middle tunes
[A] A blinded Haley [D] and Minnie Martin
_ He always played them _ songs with the vamp in the middle
[A] A hustle and a shuffle [D] and a skiddy-waddle
He wrote the songs every _ day, loud as rats and scribble
[A] So the tunes that he wrote, [D] he could play them all his little
[G] Well, I went up the river, come away that [A] Sunday night
_ [G] With my fiddle and my banjo and my baby, then a [A] whole new time
A [D] _ [A] banjo man, [D] he rode while he sang
[A] With a grizzly like a piston [D] on a railroad train _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ Got to see Radio John with his two-tone shoes
A slippin' and a slidin' while he danced for years
He knew every crooked turn up and down the Mississippi
He was a huckleberry fin [D] and airway flippy
Now Radio John, the steamboat _ troubadour
[A] A Mississippi soldier like we've never seen before
[G] He swung those toothy tanks, a real Illinois, [D] they say
_ [G] He played Bill Earl and Lester and some boys [A] named Bray
[A] You could hear his voice [D] every night till dawn
[A] So cut your television off [D] and turn your radio on
It's Radio John, _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ [A] he can't stand to play [D] in the bars and the halls
While [A] he was tapping his shoes, we was having a ball
Now [D] Radio John had us all sing along
[A] Just a-clappin' and a-stompin' to every [B] one of his songs
[G] He could make us happy and sometimes [D] make us cry
_ [G] And looking back now, wish we never had to [A] say goodbye
_ [D] It was 690 _ _ KSPL
[A] Where he played those _ [D] songs we all knew so well
And it's Radio John
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