Chords for Willie Farmer - Mr. Charlie

_ [E] _ _ _ _ Once in the country, a little boy _ [A] stood _ _ [E] _
_ [Bm] _ [E] there.
_ _ Stood there, so the boy didn't have words to talk.
_ _ His mama didn't understand what he was trying to say,
and she couldn't understand him. _ _
_ _ [G] _ [E] She asked, well, son, what's for breakfast? _ _ _ _ _ _
Little boy tried to tell the boy in the cold.
Little boy said, but, _ _ _ you know, _ she shook his head,
said, Lord, have mercy.
I don't know what's wrong with my child. _
So the little boy, he heard her. _ _ _
He decided he'd [Bm] leave home.
[E] _ _ _
He got a little flower sack and left home. _
Run up on the road in [A] the middle.
[E] _ It was called Mr.
Charlie Road.
_ When he got there, _ little boy walked over
to ask Mr.
Charlie's name.
[Em] Charlie working around the road, but little boy walked over
and said, me, me, [A] me, me, me.
[E] _ _ Mr.
Charlie screamed and said, my name [A] is Charlie.
_ [E] _ _ _ _
Little boy said, me?
[A] Me want a home.
[E] _ _
Mr.
Charlie said, boy, you can't work.
_ Little boy said, me, me, me, work?
Mr.
Charlie said, I don't have [Em] time for you now.
So Mr.
[A] Charlie stood back down and started
working around the road.
But he thought about it.
_ _ So he straight up, he said, [E] wait a minute, boy.
Look at him.
[A] _ [E] _ _ I got a road mill about a block down the road.
_ _ I got some bonk out back that you can live in as long
as you leave.
Let me know one of these Sunday morning.
[A] My mill catch a fire.
Come and let me know about it.
_ All right, [E] little boy told Mr.
Charlie, me, me, me, me [A] will.
[E] _ _ But one Sunday morning, the mill did catch a fire. _ _ _
Little boy did best he could to put it out, but he couldn't. _
So here he run to tell Mr.
[A] Charlie _
about his road mill on fire.
[E] _ Little boy run up to tell Mr.
Charlie, Mr.
Charlie,
working around the road again.
Little boy said, me, me, [Am] me, me, [G] me, me, me, me, me.
Mr.
[E] Charlie said, boy, here he is [A] again.
[E] _ I tell you don't have time to fool you.
Now, I got to do my work.
_ _ Little boy said, me, me, just pundering down the road,
trying to tell Mr.
Charlie his road mill on fire.
Little boy said, me, me just pundering down the road.
Mr.
Charlie said, well, [A] look here, boy.
[E] _ _
If you can't talk it, _ sing it.
So little boy holler at me something like this _
_ Oh, _ _ _ _ _ Mr.
Charlie
_ [Em] _ Do _
_ [E] _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _
you know you're rolling me [E] burning down?
_ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Oh, _ _ [A] Mr.
Charlie _ _
_ _ _ _ Do you know you're rolling me [E] burning down? _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ _ Mr.
[B] Charlie says we ain't got no water boy
_ _ _ [A] _ _ Let that old mill burn [E] on down _
[Em] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ [Bm] _ _
_ _ [G] _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
Little boy says _ Oh, Mr.
Charlie
[Em] _ _ You _ [E] _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ know I won't have no [E] place to stay _ _
_ [A] _ _ [E] Little boy worries _
_ Oh, _ _ Mr.
[A]
Charlie
_ _ _ _ _ Well, you know I won't have no place [E] to stay
_ _ _ [A] _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ _ Mr.
Charlie says [B] boy you have a home with me
_ _ [A] _ _ _
Just a _ long [E] desert day
_ Little boy couldn't help but worry
Walked [B] off and he [E] cried a while
Boy
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_ [Em] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
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_ [B] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ [E] told Mr.
Charlie one more [Em] time
[B] And he [G] told him [E] good
_ Oh, _ _ _ Mr.
Charlie
[Em] _
Do _ _ [Eb] _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ _ you know you're rolling me [E] burning down? _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Oh, _ _ [A] Mr.
Charlie _ _
_ _ _ _ Do you know you're rolling me burning [E] down? _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Mr.
[B] Charlie says we ain't got no water boy
_ _ [E] _ [A] _ Let that old mill burn [E] on down _ _ _ _
[Am] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
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