Chords for Tommy Emmanuel, Struttin'

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Before I get Music City Johnny up, I want to play one more piece for you. _ _ _ _ _ _
It's the Minute Waltz, and I do it in 30 seconds.
_ _ _ _ I'm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ low on time, but that's okay.
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_ _ _ Well, the boss is here, I can do what I damn well [B] like. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ So it was, uh, it was _ 1975. _ _ _ _ _
_ Maybe it was 76, I can't quite [A] remember.
_ _ _ _ [C] But, anyway, it was back when I had hair and teeth.
_ And, uh, _ _ _ _ Chet's [Bb] album, Me and My Guitars, came [Abm] out. _ _ _
[Ab] And, uh, _ _ there's a _ song on there [Db] written by Jerry Reid called Struggle.
_ _ And I'll [Eb] never forget the first time I heard that, I thought the top of my head would just blow right off.
I heard sounds, _ _ inversions, chords, and ideas that I'd never heard in my [Ab] life.
And I thought, what the hell is this?
You know, just the opening passage [Eb] was enough to boggle you, you know.
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[Bbm] And so I had [F] to _ learn that thing, and it was such a challenge, because it was so [B] full of things that [Bb] I'd never heard before.
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_ _ [Eb] I [C] had _ _
[Ab] signed up to go to Bangkok, Thailand, _ to [Abm] play 24 dates [Db] in a little country music [Ab] club. _ _ _ _
And the [Bbm] only country music club in Asia in those days.
_ [Abm] And there were still a lot of Americans _ in that area [A] _ _ _
[Ab] from the Vietnam [C] War.
_ And so they started [Db] up a country music club, and the brief was, we want to hear Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, and I said, you came to the [F] right place.
I know them all.
So, away we went.
And of course I threw in some Chet tunes [Eb]
in every set, and the guys went crazy, you know.
Just [C] went crazy. _ _
But [Ab] the thing _ for me was, in those days, _ _ there was a curfew, so you couldn't be out on the street after, I think it was 11.30 at [C] night.
So we [E] had to rush back to our hotel _ [Db] before, _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ I wasn't going to test the _ information, you know what I'm saying?
But anyway, I was staying in this little hotel, it was about $6 a day, it was one of those really cheap hotels.
And the air conditioning was either on or [F] off. _
_ So it was Ice Station Zebra _ in my room, _ or _ the Mojave Desert, _ one or the other.
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in order for me to practice, _ to [G] get out this tune, [A] _ this is what [C] I had to do for the whole month.
[F] I had to get to bed around midnight, try and get to sleep, because [Ab] my alarm was going to go off at 3am.
_ _ [E] I'd get up at 3am, and it would be cool enough [G] outside to take my nylon string guitar outside.
I'd sit by the pool, there's no one around, it's quiet, _ and I'd have my little cassette player, and [D] _ _ I'd start working on the [A] strumming.
And I did [Ab] that every night, and played for _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ up to 3am, and [D] practiced until it was too hot to stay outdoors with them. _ _ _ _
And _ that's how _ crazy _ Ted's [Am] music drove me.
And it also shows [Bb] you that if you're not smart enough to read music like me, I can't read music at all.
So I play everything by ear.
And then you [Ab] have to find it, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
as Jerry Riegel said, you just keep digging until you find it.
And that's what [D] I did.
_ So I'm going to play [Gb] the tune for you, this is a wonderful tune, [Eb] _ Struttin', dedicated to Jerry, _ and brought to the world by [D] Ted. _
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Just the opening passage is enough for me, I don't need you here [N] anymore, but I'll play the whole thing. _ _
_ _ _ Check it, please. _
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