Chords for Scott Ainslie "Parchman Farm Blues"

Turns out they're a lot of fun.
Now is that called Diddley Bow?
It is called _ Diddley Bow in Georgia.
They're called Diddley Bows.
_ _ They go by a lot of names across the Black South.
It turns out, I found out a couple of years ago,
they're built all over sub-Saharan Africa,
often a children's instrument,
played sometimes by two kids, sometimes by one,
but it's a one-string slide instrument.
_ _ And these were very much transition instruments
for the men I knew.
They were the first thing that they_
They were working in a farm economy
at the turn of the century, the 20th century,
and then the early years of that century.
_ And hard money was difficult to come by.
_ So there was a lot of barter.
And if you wanted to make music,
sometimes you just had to make the thing
you were going to make the music on.
So these were sometimes built on the sides of barns,
or I had a friend who built one on his house. _
_ _ But there were also portable ones,
and this is one of those.
I finally just built an instrument I'd never seen,
never heard, and learned to play it,
which is pretty much what these kids did.
There's something really elemental about it.
I'll play a little bit.
I want to pick it with both hands,
so I pick it with my right hand and just set up a drum.
_ _ _ I pick it with my left hand as well.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [A] Two rhythms at once, again, a very African thing
to have more than one rhythm going on.
So [D] one sounds like this.
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_ _ _ [B] If you listen to hip-hop, or don't,
those are [C] the rhythms that are under there.
And they come out of Africa,
and then you use a little [D] slide to change the pitch. _ _ _ _
_ _ And [N] then you sing like mad
and hope you don't break a string,
because if you break a string on this,
there's no bluffing, it just gets flat out over.
[D] So we'll see how lucky we are.
This never happened to me. _ _ _
_ _ This is one of the white students called Parchin.
_ _ _ _ Just give me life this morning
_ Down on Parchin's farm
_ _ _ _ _ Just give me life this morning
Down [Dm] on Parchin's farm
_ _ _ _ _ [D]
Wouldn't hate it so bad
But I miss my wife and [E] my home
_ [Dm] _ _ _
[E] Well, goodbye [D] wife
For you have done gone
_ _ _ [Dm] _ _
[D] Well, goodbye wife
For you have done gone _ _ _ _ _
And I hope someday you will
Hear my lonesome _ [Dm] song _ _ _
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[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ [D] We go to work in the morning
Just at the dawn of day
_ _ [Dm] _ _ [D] We go to [G] work in the morning
[Dm] Just at the dawn of day
_ _ _ [D] At the setting of the sun
You will find us a walkin' home
[Dm] _ _ _ [D]
Well, listen you men
I don't mean no harm
_ _ [Dm] _ _ [D]
Well, listen you men
I don't mean no harm _ _ _ _
If you want to do good
You better stay off old Parchin's farm
_ [Dm] _ _ [D] Just give me life this morning
Down on _ Parchin's farm
[Dm] Just _ _ [D]
give me life this morning
Down [Dm] on Parchin's farm _ _ _ _
[D] Wouldn't hate it so bad
But I miss my wife and my [D] home
That's _ _ _
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_ _ [F#] _ _ _ how you do it, yeah.
_ These go by a lot of names across the Black South.
Jitterbugs in Mississippi,
One String Cigar Box Guitar,
Diddley Bo, we talked about in Georgia,
but you take those two words, Diddley Bo,
and turn them around, you get Bo Diddley,
who took his rock and roll stage name,
but also the rhythms that he and Chuck Berry were playing
come right off instruments like this.
You get _ _ _ _ this_ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ It's like, this is where rock and roll starts.
Right here.
Very, very cool. _ _
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