Chords for Scott Ainslie at Dream Guitars - Let The Mermaids Flirt With Me - John Hurt

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_ _ _ _ My name's Scott Ainsley.
I'm here at Dream Guitars with a Froggy Bottom [F#] Model K.
And I thought I'd play a little bit of John Hurt for you today. _
John was recorded in 1927 in sessions
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that included Lonnie Johnson, and [G] then
was _ [C] _ [F#] had his way paid to New York in 1928 to make more recordings,
and then sort of disappeared [C] with the Great Depression, [G] which
shook down his career.
[G#] And [C] he [F#] repaired to Avalon, [E] Mississippi,
where he was _ _ basically sharecropping in a cow herd.
And then in 1963, he was _ discovered [G] again
and brought back to us.
He died in 1966.
In 2 and 1⁄2 years, he changed [E] how everybody played guitar.
[C] What a wonderful little man.
[F#] This is Let the Mermaids Flirt With Me.
The music comes from Jimmy Rogers waiting for a train,
and the words came from a man named W.E. Meyer, _ who _
was a music [F] publisher who thought John was just
the guy [C] to _ _ [E] put his lyrics to music.
[G] _ _ _ [A] And I'm going to do a couple of things here that John didn't do,
but he would have done them if he [C] thought of it. _ _
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[C] _ _ _ Old [G] blues out [C] on the ocean, [F] old blues all [C] in the air.
[F] I can't stay here [C] much longer.
[D] I got no [G] steamship fare.
When my earthly [Em] trials [C] are over, [F] I'll
cast my body out [C] in the sea.
_ _ [F#] Save [G] all undertakers' bills.
[D] Let the mermaids [C] flirt with me.
_ [G] My wife controls [C] my happy home.
[F] My sweetheart [C] I cannot find.
_ [F] The only thing [C] I can call my [D] own is a troubled and [G] worried mind.
When my [Em] earthly trials are [C] over, [F] I'll
cast my body out in [C] the sea.
_ _ Save all undertakers' [D] bills.
Let the [G] mermaids flirt [C] with me.
_ Let the [G] mermaids flirt with me.
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_ [C] _ _ [Em] I do [G] not work [C] for pleasure.
_ [F] Earthly peace I [C] see no more.
_ [F] The only reason [C] I work at all [D] is to drive the wolf [G] from my door. _
When my earthly trials are [C] over, I'll
[F] cast my body out [C] in the sea.
_ _ Save [G] all [G] undertakers' bills.
Let the mermaids flirt [C] with me.
_ _ [G] It's all [C] in my body.
My [F] _ sweetheart's [C] forsaken me.
_ [F] If I ever see [C] her face [D] again, I have to swim [G] across the sea.
[Em] When my earthly trials [C] are over, [F] I'll
cast my body out [C] in the sea.
_ _ [F#m] Save [E] all [G] undertakers' bills.
Let the mermaids [C] flirt with me.
_ _ Save [G] all undertakers' [D] bills.
Let the [G] mermaids flirt [C] with me. _
_ There you go. _ _ _ _
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