Chords for A Chance To Meet... Muddy Waters - 1981

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_ _ [A] _ Built out and I'm bound to go
_ [Dbm] _ [Em] _ _ [E] I'm gonna be the best around
_ _ [B] _ Cause I'm the one
[Gm] _ Muddy Waters, _ welcome to Jersey
Oh, thank you
_ Your real name of course is McKinley Morganfield
And I know there's a nice story about how you came to be called Muddy Waters
Can you tell us? _
[D] _ Yes, my real [Eb] name is McKinley [D] Morganfield
That's why I pay tax by it
I live by Muddy Waters
When I was a kid, I lived in the country
My [Eb] grandmother raised me
_ _ _ _ She'd come to the house after it rained
Clean the butt off the feet to come inside the house
On the porch, on the garage, we called it porch, whatever [G] it is
_ _ _ And [D] the only thing, I'd been crawling out of that plane in there
And my grandmother called me a little muddy baby
_ So when I started playing, I was about 7 years old
6 or 7 years old
And my kid added [D] water to it
And [B] it grew on for _ _ many moons
So it's been Muddy Waters ever since
Yes, it's been Muddy Waters ever since I was a crawling baby in the water
When I was a little bitty tot
Now you were born in Rolling Fork in Mississippi
Rolling Fork, Mississippi, raised in Clarksdale, Mississippi
I own a plantation called Stovall
What was life like in those days, from what you can remember? _ _ _ _
[G] It wasn't a going easy thing
Because we was doing like sharecropping
I was raised up like a sharecropper
_ Worked on the plantation, raised cotton and corn and _ [Gb] beans and [G] all that
It _ _ _ _ _ wasn't exactly slavery time, but it wasn't really _ good times
We had a good time
I [E] learned all of my [N] music through that
It _ was wonderful for me to live that
And then I knew what I was trying to learn
As a youngster, how much education did you get?
Not very much education
Because I had _ to work on the plantation
_ _ _ _ Plus, I could have been going to school
I was trying to learn what I know now
So when you went on to the plantation, what age would they take you on to the plantation?
Because I gather you were kind of bigger than most kids at school
So you had to go out to work a bit earlier
_ They would take you on to the plantation when you get big enough to work
Do any kind of work, pick up brushes
_ Clean up, _ _ they didn't have all this _ machinery that goes and cleans up a whole bit of ground
People had to do it by hand
You'd pick up brushes and throw it on the fire and let it burn
And you had a little job you was doing
And people presumably used to sing in the fields
And that's where the blues music that you learned _ came from?
A lot of it came right out of the field
I learned _ a _ _ lot of it doing my work on the plantation
Because I grew up to be able to drive tractors and trucks _ _ _
_ Before I left, because I was in my late 20s when I left Mississippi
_ In fact, although you're a guitarist now, you _ began learning the harmonica
First with the harmonica, as I said, it's what the kids begin to water from
The harmonica I learned
_ And I picked up the guitar after listening to a great old guy by [Eb] the name of Sun House
I know you heard of him
_ _ _ And I became 17 years old
_ _ [N] Where did you hear the music in those days?
Where was it played?
It was played around different, people have different
_ _ You heard of Saturday Night Fish Fries
But we called them, we used to have a supper to go to the juke house
There were different guys come in from all over like that
Playing _ at these parties
_ Guys like Charlie Patton and the Mississippi Sheiks _ _ _
And Sun House are the kind of people I learned from
These places are called jukes, what exactly, what does it look like?
What it looked like, it _ looked _ _ _ _ _ like a barn almost
And _ _ it _ _ _ wasn't nothing jazzy, it wasn't nothing pretty
It looked like an old shack out on the plantation
_ And could you get something to drink in there?
Sure, plenty of moonshine
_ You get it there
_ _ How did they record you then?
I mean recording equipment was very sophisticated
He had this recording machine in the back of his car
He had _ two or three big long batteries about that long
_ _ _ And he [B] run the wire from my window _
The ground wire into the batteries
_ And he had one little beady microphone and I sat there and played my guitar and went through there
_ Now you've come a long way since those days, that was 1941
This is about, we're 40 years on now
What are the major changes you've seen in your musical career so far?
They _ make the machines on the recording line
And I think that takes a lot away from real music _
They got buttons, you can play bass, buttons you can play whatever you play
And I don't think that's really _ what a music's supposed to be
You always then liked to be in the live band situation
When I was at home, _ _ _ two or three of us always together playing
What about guitars?
There's now very modern sophisticated equipment
What's the sort of guitar you still like to play with?
I got my old Fender, I think it was a 1956 _
_ _ _ _ _ _ I don't leave it, [D] I still have it
I have a very expensive guitar that was given to [B] me from the _ guy _ _ out of Texas
It _ was _ _ _ [G] easy tops, _ well Billy, he had a guitar made for me
Very expensive, I don't play it very much, I still play the old one
From Mississippi, _ where you started, where did you go next in your musical career?
_ _ I had it all over the world _
_ _ One more place, _ _ _ _ I'm hoping to go to the Holy Land
_ I've been all over the world with it _ _
Now, blues music is essentially grown out of the_
Excuse me, you know what I mean when I say the Holy Land?
Like Jerusalem
_ _ _ That's one place that you'd like to go to?
_ [G] Any reasons apart from just wanting to play there?
Yeah, I come up in the church and hear all the preaching about those places
Are _ _ you in fact a religious person?
I came out of the church, back to the church that's where I was raised
_ _ So this is really somewhere, the birthplace of Christ is probably the biggest reason for you wanting to go there?
Yeah, I heard so much about it, you know _ _
Preachers get up in the pulpit and preach all [D] the time about the _
[G] _ _ [D] Holy Land
And I just want to go down there
[G] _ Play me a couple of tunes there _
Blues music has grown out of the poverty and the depression
The sort of life you had [Ab] early on _ _
_ Things are easier for you now
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How has that affected the music you play?
Not at all, it doesn't affect me
Because _ [Eb] today I can buy [G] me a steak and don't be broke _ _ _ _
I'd have the same blues I had when I couldn't buy a box of cookies
_ Same way, [Db] it don't affect [G] me at all
_ _ _ What do you find the most exciting things about your career at the moment? _ _ _
The most exciting thing is that I ended my music
So many people _ got [A] off on my music and went playing music and made big hits and made big stars
That I feel like I did something for the music world _
_ How did you learn to get used to playing with an amplifier?
_ _ You mean how I learned to get used to playing with an amplifier?
You started presumably straight on acoustic
Because when I came up to Chicago and all I had was my guitar
And I used to play a little neighbourhood _ _ pug, _ [Eb] Tavis
And _ it wouldn't cut through
And I decided I should have a little [E] amp to cut over the top of the voices talking
_ You've done many things, you've introduced blues music to thousands, probably millions of people now
You're travelling, you want to go to the Holy Land
That's one ambition that you have left
If there was one other thing that you would still like to achieve, what would that be?
Not to retire until I get really, really old or sick
I want to keep moving [D] around
I've _ _ [B] got _ _ _ _ a lot of people out here and I want to go around and sing to them every once in a while
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