Chords for Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper - "Tramp On the Street" Live 1974 with Introduction

Thank you [A] so much.
And as Stoney said, it's really an honor to come out [E] and be here at the Smithsonian Institute
working for [F#] all of you wonderful [B] folks out here
playing [C] some of the old [Bm]-timey music like Stoney and the boys and I [E] was raised [Bm] on.
Stoney and I, as [B] he said, come from the hills of West [E] Virginia.
[N] And I was raised on a farm, Stoney was raised on a farm, although my mother was a schoolteacher and my father a coal miner.
But I've worked on the farm just like a man because there was no boys in our family and I was the oldest [B] girl.
So I've pulled a crosscut saw with my dad many a time out there on that farm, dug many a row [Bm] of potatoes,
hoed many a row of corn.
I got the hands of a shovel too.
But anyway, [B] we enjoyed those days back on the farm and I know my family would gather around after the [Bm] work was done of an evening
before we'd go to bed.
We usually went to bed just at dark.
We never lit a lamp.
We didn't have electricity.
Had the old-timey kerosene lamps.
But before we'd go to bed, mother and dad and the two sisters of mine would gather around the [N] organ and mother would play.
We'd sing some of the old-time hymns.
That's all my mother and dad sung was [F#] a gospel song.
But we'd always sing [B] most every evening and then of course Sunday [E] afternoon
[N] we'd sit on the porch and we'd sing all afternoon.
But I remember those days.
It's nice to come and share some of these songs with you folks over here tonight.
Here's one more Stoney.
No, no, you've got several to [A#] go.
I want to point out [E] Wilma is so thrilled about [B] being here and to [G] represent women in country music
and what a high honor that I can tell just a little quiver [A] in her voice and when she does that it's _
a high emotion and love and [B] I just can't believe it happened to her.
And we want to thank [N] the, well, B [B].C., May and of course Mr.
Ralph Rensler and all those who had anything to do with
with having you here for this special night, Wilma.
And I would be shaking in my knees and the only reason I'm not is because I can sort of toss it over on you this time.
But I usually do anyway so it's really not any different.
So these folks just want to hear Wilma Lee and I'm sure that's the way they come [C#] and you just be that.
_ _ [F] _
_ _ _ [G] _ [Bm] Thank you.
Here's a song that I recorded back in 1946 when we were working at a radio station in Asheville, North Carolina.
[G] We worked down there about four months before [C] we came to Wheeling, West Virginia.
[B] And this is a song, there was a record company came to us, we'd never recorded.
And back then it was a great honor to get to record.
And this man [G#] came and he asked us, [Bm] Mr.
Stanton, Mr.
Jim Stanton, he said,
[B] we have a record company, or I do, and he said [Bm] I'd like to have [Gm] you folks to record for me [Bm] if you would,
if you're not tied up with another company.
And of course we weren't at the time.
And it tickled us to death to get to [G] record.
And he took us into the studios where we did our programs every day there at WWNC in Asheville, [A#] North Carolina.
Bill Carver was working [G#m] for us at the time [Bm] playing the dobro guitar.
We went in one night, he'd come in there, [F#] and we recorded 16 songs in a record session.
Now [Bm] usually today if you can do four in a record session you're lucky.
But that night we did 16 numbers.
And this is one of the numbers that I did, [Em] The Tramp [F] on the Street.
[C] _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ [C] _ _ _ _
Only a tramp on plazza [F] sat face _
_ [G] He who lays down at the rich [C] man's gate
He begged for the crumbs on the rich [F] man to eat
_ He was [C] only _ found [G] dead [C] on the street
_ He was some mother's darling, he was [F] some mother's _
_ [G] Once he was fair and once [C] he was young
_ _ Some mother brought him, her [F] darling, to _ [A#] [F] sleep
Then there [C] lived _ [G] a [C] tramp on the _ street
_ _ _ _ Jesus _ [F] _
_ _ _ [G] _ [C] _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
who died on [F] Calvary's tree _
_ [G] Shed his life's blood for you and [C] for me
_ They pierced his thighs, his hands, and [F] his feet
_ And [C] they left him to die [G] a [C] tramp on the street _ _ _
[F] _ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _
_ _ He was Mary's old darling, he was [F] God's chosen son
_ Once [G] he was fair and [C] once he was young _
Mary, she brought him, her [E] darling, [F] to sleep
_ Then they [C] left him to die [G] a tramp [C] on the street _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [N] Jesus _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ [N] _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ who died on [F] Calvary's tree
_ [G] Shed his life's blood for you [C] and for me
They pierced his thighs, his [F] hands, and his feet
_ And they [C] left him to die [G] a tramp on [C] the street _ _ _ _
_ _ [C#] _ _ _ _ [N] _ _