Chords for The Stonemans Patsy, Roni, and Donna

_ _ _ I've forgotten _ more _ [D] than you'll [A] ever _ know [D] about _ him.
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I [D] am the oldest living member of the Sumner family, _ and this is my sister Donna and Ronnie.
_ _ _ _ [E] And we were the only three of us left.
Mom is 23, two of [D] Mommy and Daddy's.
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But, and 13 of us grew up [Eb] to play music.
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And during the [Em] Depression, or before the [A] Depression, during the 20s,
[B] Mommy and Daddy was making great money.
We [F] had everything we wanted.
The first 10 [Bb] kids were born in Galak, [F] _ Virginia.
And we had everything we wanted.
Daddy had [G] three cars.
[C] We had curling irons.
We had electricity.
[F] We didn't know what else did.
We had a lined [Bb] up telephone.
Hey, [F] one, two, three, one, two, three, you know.
[C] And it was, everything [F] was going good.
I mean, like great.
And then _ 1929 came along, [Bb] _ and [F] that kind of put the hurtin' on us.
_ But [G] it did a lot of folks.
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I mean, it wasn't just us.
It was a lot of [F] folks who got hurt. _
But it really didn't [Bb] clean us out until [F] 1932, when Scott was born.
_ Scott [Cm] was born on the [F] last piece of furniture left in our house.
They then took everything we had.
And Mommy was on the [Bb] cot with him.
And [F] that's when we had to leave Galak.
And so Daddy's first [G] recording in [C] 1924, September 5th, 1924, [F] was one about sinking to the Titanic.
[Bb] And in 1925, [F] it was number three for ten weeks on the _ [C] Ravage Art.
_ [F] _ _ _ _ It was [Bb]
sad when that great ship was gone.
A [F] long time [E] ago, I played music with my [A] mom and dad.
And I think it was when I had my first job on the sea. _
My very first man, when Daddy got out of the hot shop, fixed it up.
And I remember I was so excited.
_ That was a schoolhouse, [E] and everybody clapped [G] for me and everything.
So I got so [A] excited, I left [D] my only man with him, sitting [E] on the steps of [A] the schoolhouse.
And Daddy said, that's the best you can do?
I ain't taking you to war.
_ Of course, he landed and got me another man when I went on.
_ And so we played when Daddy would have to work 18 hours a day as a carpenter.
_ In _ Carmody Hills, Maryland.
_ He worked at the Naval Gun [D] Factory. _ _
I guess [A] it's Washington.
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And we [E] played on weekends.
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Then came along the [A] 50s.
And Scott Ian, Scott was my, _ oh, _ [A] terrific fiddler, a greater in the world.
He won nine times the National Championship Film Contest.
And he was the next in line for me.
He was a year and a half older.
And he'd say, Donnie, we're going to go travel around the world.
We're going to be on the [G] Grand Ropery.
Anyway, _ on my point, I want you to play a little bit.
Show them a little bit how you play the mandolin.
Just do it.
[D] Oh, I get [G] it.
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_ _ _ Now you know why I want her to play. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [Bb] When I first started playing [A] _
_ music, of course, Scott taught me how to play the banjo.
He got me interested in it.
My grandpa up in the mountains of Virginia, that's my mother's [D] father, _ Bill Frost.
_ He was _ _ _ a fiddle player and a banjo player.
_ And he used to make the [E] heads of the banjo out of [A] animal skins. _ _
And he told me a story, and I think that's really got [D] me interested in the banjo.
He said, you know, I used to go up there every summer.
And it's pretty summer there.
But it was really quiet for me.
I couldn't hardly stand it.
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I was used to a lot of racket with the noise of the [D] children in that one-room house
and all the music going all the time.
And Grandpa was quiet, and Grandma.
But he would play _ [A] the _ banjo at night on [D] the front porch.
And one day, _ _ he said, when I was a young man, Ronnie,
_ he was an old man then, he was so sweet.
And he said, I went over to Phelps Park in Galax.
_ He said there was a wagon train coming through.
And he was circling _ the wagon train for the night.
We were going up the _ trail.
_ And he said _ there was a young girl _ in that wagon train.
And she sat on the back of this old wagon train playing the old claw hammer banjo. _
He said, I was real young.
[A] And he said, the dust was just a-flying.
And I was barefooted.
And I walked behind this wagon trail that was [D] going around in circles,
settling in for the evening, for a few days for a rest.
And he said, [A] that girl played the [D] banjo so good.
And [Gb] you know, [G] I fell in love with her because she was so good on the banjo.
So I thought to myself, [D] I want Grandpa to love me a lot,
because I thought he was _ wonderful. _
_ I waited [E] for y'all, so it's my turn.
Well, honey's kind of getting tired [B] waiting on you.
Well, [E] _
I [Am] _ [B] didn't get tired waiting [A] on you.
I didn't think about any.
[Em] No, but you [A] usually do.
But anyway, back to the music.
You can embrace [G] whatever.
But I [D] think it's fun to argue. _ _ _
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Someday you'll learn _ when his _ [D] life is _ cold.
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_ _ [D] Then you'll [A] ever _ know [D] about _ him.
_ _ _ _ _ _ I _ [E] forgot [G] _ _ more [D] than _ you'll [B] ever [A] _ _
know _ _ _ [D] about him. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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