Chords for Woody Mann: "We'll Be Alright"

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[B] _ [Ab] _ Well, my car [Db] is broke [Ab] _ _ _
_ _ and my job, [E] Lord, well, [Ab] that's a joke.
_ [Db] _ _ [Ab] But the man, he keeps saying, [B] hey, [Bb]
hey, _ _ well, that's [Db] okay. _ _ _ _
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[Gb] _ [Ab] And the world is [Gb] in [Ab] [Dbm] a [D] fight _
[Bb] _ _ _ [Ab] and the odds ain't [Db] _ [Cm] always _
[E] [Ebm] right.
[Ab] _ _ [Abm] But the man, he keeps saying, hey, [Bb] hey, _ _ [Ab] _ well, that's all right.
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_ [Eb] I can't take, [Fm] Lord, Lord, [Gbm] _ [Eb] _ _ _
[G] [Db] any [Abm] more of this [Ab] news.
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[Ab] _ You know I've [Fm] got to _ _ lose [E] _ [Ab] _
_ [Fm] _ my _ [Eb] everyday _ blues.
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_ [Gbm] _ [Eb] _ _ Well, I know that [Abm] [Ab] a rich _ [Gb] man's got his [Ab] luck _
[Bb] _ and [Ab] a poor man, _ Lord,
[Bb] [Fm] got his [Ab] cup.
_ [Db] _ [Ab] _ But the _ man in the middle _ [Bb] like me [Ab] _ _
just [C] gets fucked [Ab] lowly low, [Bb] _ [Ab] yeah.
But the [A] man in the middle [Abm] [Bb] like _ [Ab] me, _ _ _ yeah.
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[Ab] _ _ _ [Eb] _ [Ab] Mm [Eb] _ -hmm.
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_ _ [Eb] [Ab] I [Eb] can't take, Lord, [Fm] Lord, _ _ [Gbm] _
[Eb] _ [Cm] _ [Gb] [Db] any [Abm] more of this [Ab] news.
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You [Ab] _ know I've got [Fm] to lose _ _
[Ab] my _ [Fm] _ _ _
_ everyday [Eb] blues. _
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[Cm] [Eb] Well, I know [Abm] of [Ab] a place with [Gb] no [Ab] [Db] despair.
_ _ [Ab] _ So let's drink to [Bb] the [E] love that [Ab] we share.
[Bbm] It's [Ab] _
all day _ and [Bb] all night.
[Ab] And together we'll be all right.
Yeah, that [Bb] we'll _ be [Ab] _
_ so right. _ _
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[Ab] Together. _ _ _ _
_ _ [Abm] _ [Bb] Mm-hmm. _
[Ab] _ Together. _ _ _
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_ Yeah, I picked up guitar when I was probably about 9, 10 years old.
My brother played guitar.
And I just was fascinated by the instrument.
I listened to a lot of folk music. _
[F] And the house I grew up in, you know, people like Pete Seeger, Paul Robeson,
Woody Guthrie, those were [Em] the heroes.
So I grew up listening to that [N] music and hearing guitar.
And so I started to play some folk music.
You know, my parents were very _ political,
so folk music was kind of part of the family.
_ And I guess back then if you were into folk music, you were sort of a communist.
And so I just started playing folk music like at summer camps and listening.
Josh White was another guy who used to come to my high school all the time.
And so it was just all around.
And _ so I just started playing what I could from the Yolk publications
and the Pete Seeger songbooks and things like that.
And _ then I started to, you know, after I got into it,
I _ _ remember going to a record store and hearing, you know,
I saw a record by Blind Blake and I saw the picture of him.
And I just, like I said, I was into, you know,
Josh White, Lead Belly was another one.
And I just bought the record, you know, and that _ was it.
That did me in when I first heard that, the old scratchy 78s. _
_ And I was just, I was hooked.
And after that I just started to find out, you know, more records
and looking for guitar teachers, couldn't find any guitar teachers.
You know, I learned from Happy Traum's book that was available at the time.
And _ _ learned from whoever I could.
And I remember looking around for guitar teachers.
And I was young and there was nobody in my neighborhood. _
And that's when I sort of, you know, discovered Davis' music
because I was learning a couple of his tunes, tunes like Candyman and Delia
and _ _ Cocaine were kind of running around the circuit.
And I knew his name that he wrote that.
I didn't know who he was.
And _ so I just was looking for a teacher and I just decided one day to call him up.
And I just looked him up in the phone book, you know.
I remember his phone, _ _ AX17609, I remember the phone number.
And he answered the phone and I just said,
Is this Reverend Davis, the guy who wrote Candyman?
Can I visit him?
She said, Yeah, come on out to his house.
So I just _ went out there.
And I really wasn't planning to study with him.
I just kind of wanted to meet him and sort of like hear what he did, played Candyman.
Because I bought a couple of his records and it was the religious music.
And I really didn't care for it that much to be honest with you.
When I first heard it, I was more into kind of, you know, St.
Louis tickle and finger picking.
And he was shouting and screaming.
And I said, I don't think this is the teacher for me.
But I just wanted to go out there and meet him anyway.
And so when I went out there, _ _ you know, I just met him and he was having dinner.
And after dinner he picked up his guitar and he started playing like, you know, this [G] kind of _ _ _ _ big [N] ragtime bouncy music.
And I was just like, What is that?
And he said, Well, I call that ragtime, you know, is what he used to say.
And I said, Well, can you teach me that?
He said, Yeah.
I said, Okay, I'll come back tomorrow.
And I just, my mother drove me over to his house, you know, and _ that was it.
And it was just a period of discovery.
I said, You know, what is it that you do?
What is this finger, you know, because I always figured, I heard finger picking, which is the light kind of more Merle Traversy type of things.
And when Davis was playing this kind of bouncy ragtime stuff, I was just like flipped out because it obviously reminded me of Blind Blake and the blues stuff.
And so that was it.
I was just hooked.
And when I met Davis, that was _ it.
And I could finger pick a little bit, you know, but when I went to him, it was just sort of, it felt like starting from scratch. _ _ _