Chords for Victoria Spivey - Grant Spivey

_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ [D]
Sure [G] wish my daddy had a little house
Bought his land in New York
But it's too late now
My daddy's [G] dead and he can't talk
[D] _ I wish he could have seen me
[G] Do they bother Jack?
_ _ _ [D] _ Daddy ain't come back
[C] Sure a little bother my daddy _ _
Grand Stevie, _ that [G] Stevie dog
[D] He _
[G] _ _ [D] _ [G] was a strong boss
On that Galveston wharf
_ Everybody knew him
As a hard, hard boss
King Peter told me
He was the loudest sox he'd ever seen
He just wasn't doing the work
The little [D] hat and [G] ring
Sure [C] a little bother my daddy _
[D] Grand Stevie
_ _ [G] _ _ [D] _
_ [G] _ _ [D] _ [G] But that 1900 Storm
_ [C] Whipped my daddy [G] good
Say _ _ _ _ [C] that 1900 Storm
_ Whipped my daddy
[G] _ _ _
_ _ _ While he ran him out of [D] Galveston, Texas
Into a Houston _ [G] neighborhood
_ [D] _
_ [G] _ _ Daddy cried for me _
_ [C] I can't move no more
[G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [C] Lord, Lord, Lord
You know I can't move no [G] more
I _ _ _ got [D] these nine little babies _ _
Where can a poor man go? _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ [G] He's taking off a dose of medicine
On a cold, dark night
He left nine little babies
And a helpless wife
I was so small
Dropped my head and cried
And I moaned and I moaned
Until I almost died
That [C] is why
_ [D] I call and call
New York Michael
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _