Chords for Songs of Appalachia: Fiddler Charlie Acuff

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_ In this month's Songs of Appalachia, you'll meet a preserver [B] of old-time music.
This is [E] a tune that I learned from my grandfather, _ _ the Josie Girl.
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_ I'm Charlie Acuff, and I play the fiddle.
I started out when I was about 12 years old.
_ I was named after my grandfather, and he played the fiddle.
And he asked me if I ever got my daddy's fiddle down and played, or tried to play.
And I said, well, I'm left-handed, and I guess I could learn.
He said, we'll just see about that. _
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So _ _ he _ put _ dots on the fingerboard for me to put my finger on, how to put my finger.
And I started out with that. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ And he said, well, let's try to learn another song, Charlie.
_ _ _ _ And he'd start me out on another song, tune, you know.
_ I'd get tired _ and want to rest a while, you know.
But he'd say, well, you've just about got it.
Play it again. _
Try it one more time. _ _
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_ _ _ _ When I grew up, people called my music _ _ _ [N] _ _ _
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_ [Am] _ _ hillbilly, _ _ hillbilly music.
Whenever I heard a song or a tune, if I liked it, I played it.
I didn't care what it was.
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it's country [G] music, I guess. _ _
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_ _ _ Most of my grandfather's tunes, I don't know where he learned them. _ _
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But the Salvation Army _ was playing a tune, and my grandfather didn't know what the name of it was.
So he just called it the Salvation Army.
That's why so many fiddle tunes have about seven or eight names to the same tune.
This is a tune I learned from my grandfather _ _ _ _ _ _
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[C] Charlie says he never played [D] the more commercial tunes in the old-time music genre.
He stuck [G] to the ones he learned from his grandfather.
Since fiddling was his hobby and not [C] his livelihood, Charlie played what he wanted.
[G] _ As a result, Charlie has been able to preserve the tunes of the old fiddlers who have passed on.
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