Chords for Tinsley Ellis - Little Red Rooster

So when I was a teenager [B] I was the young kid that would follow [G] the old blues guys around and ask them questions [B] and get my picture taken with them
and [G] get their autographs and stuff like that and just generally be a pest to them but they were pretty nice to me.
[G#] It all started when a [B] friend of mine, his older brother came into [G] a friend's [F#]
teenage bedroom there and [E] we were listening to, I don't know, something like _
[Bm] Super Sessions album [B] or something like that.
And [Gm] a friend's older brother, I'll never forget, [A] he said, I hear you [G] guys getting into this Mike Bloomfield and you're getting into this Peter Green and Eric Clapton and _ [B] there's a guy you gotta go see because he's the one they're all getting it [Bm] from.
_ I said, well who do [F#] we gotta go see?
He said, it's a big influence to [G] our heroes.
I'll never forget he said, you gotta go see B.B. King.
_ _ So [A] it was in a time where B.B. King was playing in [F#m] week long engagements in [B] places, you know, the place we [A#] saw him was a place [G] like half the size of this.
I'd play in there for a week.
Can you imagine going to see B.B. [F] King every night for a week on the 9th of every month?
_ [B] But we [G] went on a Saturday afternoon [F#] to see B.B. King and me and some of my [Bm] friends, my dad took us there.
We were too young to drive [B] and [G] there was a teen show.
You know what a teen show is?
It's a nightclub and they shut down the bar and they just serve Coca [B]-Cola and stuff like that.
[Bm] So we all went and there was like 30 [F#] or 40 of us up in there hearing B.B. [C#] King.
Of [B] course every time I tell the story, less and less [G] people in the audience.
[A] I was the only one there.
But there was about [G] 30 or 40 of us teenagers there watching Mr.
King and it just blew us away.
We'd never seen anything like that before.
We could see where the cream and [F#m] the almond brothers were coming [F] from.
And [F#] then B.B. greeted us in the lobby and took a [B] picture with us.
It seemed like [A#]
hours.
[B] He's just the nicest guy.
So we got the idea that all the blues people [N] must be really, really nice people. _ _ _ _ _
The next guy we all went to see was Howlin' Wolf.
So he comes off the stage and just blew our minds.
We'd [F#] never seen anything like the [G] real Chicago [F#m] blues.
So he comes off the stage and he's [F#] standing about over there.
He had just done a [D#] show with Hubert Sumlin on guitar, [F] the great Eddie Shaw on sax who's still [G] working today, and S.P. Leary was in the band.
So Wolf comes [A#] off the stage drenched in [Bm] sweat.
So I figured, Mr.
King was so [G] nice.
Mr.
Wolf must be a really nice guy too.
So I go over there and I'm _ [F] 15 years old or something, [N] 1972, you do the math.
And so I go over [Bm] there to meet Mr.
Wolf because Mr.
King was so nice.
And [G] the closer I got to him, the bigger and angrier he looked.
So I [G#] just went to the hard left and got a Coca-Cola.
Never [G] got to meet Howlin' Wolf.
That's a long build up for this song, but _ _ frankly, you're the only ones who'll [D] listen.
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[A] So anyway, here's the song Wolf played that [G] night.
And I played it with Kim Wilson on the Blues at the Crossroads. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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[C] _ Talk straight, get in [G] the bar.
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_ [D] _ [F#m] Forget [D] the how.
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_ _ _ [E] Forget the how.
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_ [Dm] _ [D] Talk straight, get in the [G] bar.
Forget the how.
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See that red rooster?
_ [D] _ _ Leave me, send it home.
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See that red rooster?
[A] _ _ _ [Em] Leave me, _ [D] send it [G] home. _ _ _ _
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ain't no geese in the barnyard.
_ _ [E] That red rooster [G] been gone. _ _ _ _ _ _
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