Chords for Steve Martin Steep Canyon Rangers ~ Daddy Played the Banjo ~ Delfest 2012

[E] _ You know, _ _ a lot of people _ [Em] come to me and they say,
[F#m] Steve, [E] _ _
_ [C#] why a music career?
Why [Bm] now?
And I say, [C#] hey, _ you [Bm] guys are my band.
What is that?
_ _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ [G] But I do appreciate your coming.
I [B] appreciate being invited here to DelFest.
[Am] _ [B] _ _
_ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ I just got a droopy little nip. _ _ _ _
That's a thing.
That's perfect.
Thank you, Mike.
You know, an exciting thing is, [C#] lower it a little bit.
I appreciate your coming because I know this whole idea is very [B] strange.
It's like if you were sitting at home and your [C#] spouse says to you,
oh look, I see that Jerry Seinfeld is doing an evening of original songs he wrote for the [Bm] Bassoon. _ _
[B] _ You've got to go see that.
Anyway, this next song is _ _ _ called Daddy [E] Played the [B] Banjo.
_ _ [Em] And _ _ [B] _ _
I co-wrote it [C#] with Gary Scruggs, the son of the great Earl Scruggs.
_ _ _ And who better to write a song called Daddy Played the Banjo than Earl Scruggs, than Gary Scruggs?
And it's going to be sung by the lead singer of the Steep Canyon Rangers, Mr.
[B] Woody Platt.
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ Woody Platt, the bluegrass singer from North Carolina.
_ _ [N] _
_ _ _ That's your real name, right?
Woody [B] Platt?
It's my real name, [F#] yes.
That sounds a bit made up.
To be a [G] bluegrass singer.
It's like you went [A] online to the bluegrass name [N] generator. _
_ [G] _ I don't quite believe it.
I'm going to check it out.
[B] _
_ _ Anyway, here's a [A#] song called [B] Daddy [E] Played the Banjo.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Daddy played the banjo beneath the [E] yellow tree
It [B] rang across the backyard an old time melody
[C#] _ _ [B] And I loved to hear the music when I was only [Em]
five
_ [B] And I listened as his fingers made the banjo come alive _ _ _
Sometimes I'd wake up at night and hear the [C#m] distance _
And _ [B] the music would echo around my childhood _ [F#] _ room
[B]
And I'd sing down the back stairs Daddy never [E] _
knew
And [B] I'd have a brilliant make believe that I was the king _ _ _
[F#] One day Daddy [B] placed my fingers down upon the strings
And [F#] he picked them with his other [B] hand and he made the [F#] banjo _ _ ring
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[B] And _ now the music takes me back across the [E] yellow _ days
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And soon as I grip my hand and the tunes begin
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_ [B] _ _ Oh. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ But I'm just telling lies about the [C#m] things I did
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Because I'm the banjo player who never had [F#] a king
_ _ And _ _
_ [B] _ all I said [E] beneath the yellow _ tree
[B] Was that a kid [F#] somewhere was [B] missing _ _ _
_ _ Daddy played the banjo beneath the [E] yellow tree
_ _ [B] It rang across the backyard an old time [F#] melody _
_ _ [B] And now the banjo takes me back through the [E] foamy haze
_ _ [B] The memory of what never was begins _ _
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