Chords for The Band - Levon & Garth Backstage Jam + Sonny Boy Williamson Stories

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_ _ _ _ _ [E] _ She bought a dollar, _ go to beauty shop, _ _ _ he honked his horn, she began to talk. _ _
She said, take me there.
_ Right around the block, you know I'm just going down to the beauty shop.
_ [F#] If I [G] had a sock, [A] going to start me talking.
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I tell them every [E] night, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
we're going [B] to break up this signifying, _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ somebody's got [E] to go. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ We played with Sonny Boy Williamson, just, you know, I got to meet him.
I'd heard of him all my life, of [G#] course.
But [F#] we went down, we heard that he'd just come back from England, playing with the Rolling
Stones and the [E] Animals, a few English groups.
He was over there and they treated him so good. _
Man had to be in his seventies. _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ [E] We went to _ look him up, _ down on Yazoo Street. _
_ _ _ _ [N] He took us to a booze camp.
_ _ _ We played with him, drank some moonshine.
_ They'd sell it, a dollar for a half a pint.
Half a pint would wipe out all four of us. _ _ _
We'd just be sitting there, sipping it, everything was normal.
Playing good music.
There was an 11 year old kid that came out and played drums on a cardboard box with two
sticks that _ was wonderful.
It was great.
_ _ But before the night was out, I think the police interrupted us and said, you know,
what are you white boys doing?
_ _ You know, these black boys and, you _ _ _ know, _ leave on set.
These fellas are from Canada.
Maybe this is my fault. _ _ _ _
And _ _ _ [G#m] they just said, well, I bet [D] your family's going to be proud.
You know, [N] I heard someone else say, well, what would you like us to do?
And he said, get out of town.
_ _ So we got out of town. _ _
Good God.
_ _ Son of a boy, man.
_ Ain't never been one, carried two of them [F#] case knives, them long handled [N] cases.
And he'd get that _ blade, you could shave with them, [F#] some of them,
if you just had one in your pocket.
[F] And he'd put [F#] a kitchen mat, a black off half of a kitchen mat, and stick it [N] under.
And it had switch blades back then.
So it would hold that tip of that knife blade just an eighth of an inch,
quarter of an inch out of its [A] handle.
_ You know, and [D#] Sonny Boy would be backing up, begging and pleading this case.
And saying, [G#] I ain't got no money, I ain't got no [G] money.
And all of a sudden, to show him his money, he would get ahold [F] of that
and _ catch the tip of that blade [A] on the edge of his pocket [F] when he'd come out with it. _
And [F#] James Cotton is who that is. _ _
_ James got a few other funny [F] ones too to go with it.
[F#] And he'd pull that damn thing out and catch that on [D] the tip of his pocket
[F] and just like [D] that.
_ And all of a sudden he said, sometime he'd cut his pocket half off.
[F] He said, boy, he'd [F#] reach out there and just touch the son of a bitch like that
and, boy, there he'd beat him like a razor.
He said, boy, and [G] bastards would start giving some [F] slack then.
_ [E] He said, you know, that's when he'd get bad.
Now, come on, you want to talk some shit?
You know, and just _ pop him with that thing like that.
He did big jabs too. _
[F] He put the fear of God in them son of bitches around Southeast Arkansas.
[E] Bad ones too.
Boy, if they got the word that Sonny Boy was going to cut their ass,
they'd leave town because they [D#] knew he wasn't shitting.
Their ass was cut. _ _ _ _ _