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[C] [Gbm] We moved away from Lexington [F] and I lost [D] contact with J [F].D. [B] at some [C] point.
[Bb] And the next time I heard of [A] J.D. Crowe, he was [B] playing with Jimmy Martin, [C] doing a fine job [Ab] picking.
He and the Osmond brothers [Gb] had teamed up after I left, and that was my first encounter with those [C] guys.
I will say this about Jimmy Martin.
At one point in his life, for a period [Bb] of about probably three or four [F] years,
he was [C] the best at what he did [Bb] that's ever been.
And I feel like I'm [G] number one on the hit parade [C] of love.
On the hit parade [G] of love, I know [C] I'll never stop.
I [D] got it on my mind before I reach the [G] top.
But if [C] I do get faster, I'm really [F] happy to make.
And [G] I know I'm number one on the earth, yeah.
[Am]
[C]
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[C]
[B] Absolutely the best.
[A] I'm talking [B] about vocally, [A] I'm talking about [Bb] guitar and timing.
[C] And wanting you to do [Bb] the right thing.
[C] I went with him [G] in 1956, [F] and he was living in Detroit, Michigan at the time.
And was playing with, [C] they had also had a barn dance, [D]
of all places in Detroit, [B] Michigan, which was kind of odd.
I thought it was a sign.
[F]
And [G] I know I'm number one on the earth, yeah.
[C]
And [G] I know I'm number one on the earth.
[C] [Ab]
I said, hello, he said, is this Paul Williams?
[Am] I said, yeah, he said, this is Jimmy Martin, [Bb]
up in [Eb] Detroit.
[Gb] He said, well, I'll tell you why [D] I called.
He said, I want you to go to work for [F] me.
Play the man and sing tenor.
[A]
[B] He said, come on up, catch a bus and [A] come on up.
And so I did.
[Am] And that was in November, [A]
1957.
And [B] he come and [A] got me at the bus station, took me out there where [Am] [A] he lived.
And [D] there was a little [Am] slim red-headed fella [A] there.
And Jimmy said, [C] I want to introduce you [A] to my banjo player.
This is [Bb] J.D. Crow.
[A] Some of the clubs that we played in [Eb] Detroit, [B] they're probably [D] gone by now.
They'd [A] be a good thing.
They were rough, a lot of them were.
It was mostly night clubs.
And it was usually Thursday, Friday, Saturday nights.
And you'd start early evening and finish up midnight or later.
But it was just a lot of fun for me back then because I hadn't been to Detroit before.
And there I was in the big city, big motor city, you know.
But I enjoyed my stay there, when we were there.
In 1958, we got a chance to go [Bb] and audition on [A] the Louisiana Hayride,
which at that time was one of the big Saturday night jamborees.
[Dbm]
WRVA in Richmond had the [B] barn dance, the old Minnie barn [A] dance.
Of course, [C] Wheeling had the Wheeling [A]
Jamboree.
And of course, you [Ab] had the Grand Ole Opry, [A] WSM.
But KWKH in Shreveport, Louisiana had the Hayride
and [B] had people on there like Johnny Horton and James O.
Gwynn.
Hank Williams had been there at one [C] time.
Webb [Ab] Pierce had been there at one [A] time.
[G] And Jim Reeves had come through there at one time.
[C] At that time, Jimmy's records were [A] doing pretty good.
They were recording for Decca at the time.
At 8 o'clock on Saturday night, one of [C] those shows was Coast to [A] Coast
on CBS Radio Network.
The Louisiana Hayride, I remember, was probably one of the finest places
that I really looked forward to playing.
It's kind of hard to explain, but I think [C] everyone there
couldn't wait until Saturday night.
All right, we're going to put Jimmy Martin and his crew to work [Gb] again,
along [B] with the fiddlin' Dobber Johnson.
And we've got [Ebm] old J.D. Crowe and [D] his five-string banjo
[Bbm] to pick a little bit here tonight.
[G] Thank you so much, Frank.
It's awful not [Gb] to be down here at the good old Hayride.
Big out at all you folks here and also you folks [D] listening to us
by the [Em] way of radio.
We'd like to do [Am] that number, [G] J.D.,. especially for Tom and Nell and all them listening [Gbm] in. Now would [D] you folks like to hear J.D. [Gb] pick one on the five-string banjo? You [E] folks like to hear that, [A] huh? [G] That ain't enough. That's just a [Bb] few of you. I ask you, did you [E] want to hear him play one? I'm going to play it. [Bb] [Fm] With my help, J.D.,. you [Gbm] will be able to pick a banjo tune here [G] tonight. [Gbm] Have you got anybody [Ab] special you'd like to dedicate [Gb] this to, J.D.? [Ab] Nobody's I can think of. [F] Do it for Ken, [Bbm] the band here on stage. They'd like to hear you pick [Eb] too. Okay. Let's do a little trade, four to five. All right. [A] The crowds at the Louisiana Hayride, I think probably as much as there's been a [E] crowd, I'd have to play it. [D] [A] Usually when we had the [Gbm] Hayride every Saturday [A] night, [Ab] [Gbm] [A] [Gb] I forget how [A] many in hell, but probably a few [Dm] thousand. Jimmy said [D] that we was going to the [C] WWBA, [A] the Wheeling [B] Jamboree, Wheeling, West Virginia. [Gbm] [A] Jimmy mentioned [D] that to Paul and myself about the Hayride and thought about it. Of course, I don't [Gbm] think we wanted to go, but he thought [A] probably we could get some more work. It had [Db] got kind of [Ab] slack working [A] Oklahoma and New Mexico and Texas and around there in [Ab] Louisiana. And [G] also, I think [E] the [Gbm] concerts were a lot [A] better. You had a lot more [E] chance of playing more concerts. So we loaded up and went up there, and [A] it did get better. We did work more. It was a drastic change. Shreveport was Wheeling, West Virginia. And [E] I never really liked it. [A] We got a lot more work. Of course, the [B] work more, you got a little bit [C] more change, a little bit more jingle, you know. It always makes [Am] you feel better. We [Gbm] was doing a lot of traveling, and I was getting [Gb] tired, and [Am] I didn't like the place anyway. So [Ab] I think all those combinations, [Gbm] [D] well, I think I changed for a while through what happened.
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[N] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ [Gbm] We moved away from Lexington [F] and I lost [D] contact with J [F].D. _ _ _ _ [B] at some [C] point.
[Bb] And the next time I heard of [A] J.D. Crowe, he was [B] playing with Jimmy Martin, [C] doing a fine job [Ab] picking.
He and the Osmond brothers [Gb] had teamed up after _ I left, and that was my first encounter with those [C] guys.
_ I will say this about Jimmy Martin.
_ _ At one point _ _ in his life, for a period [Bb] of about _ _ probably three or four [F] years,
_ he was [C] the best at what he did [Bb] that's ever been. _ _
And I feel like I'm [G] number one on the hit parade [C] of love.
On the hit parade [G] of love, I know [C] I'll never stop.
I [D] got it on my mind before I reach the [G] top.
_ But if [C] I do get faster, I'm really [F] happy to make.
And [G] I know I'm number one on the earth, yeah.
_ [Am] _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [B] Absolutely the best.
[A] I'm talking [B] about vocally, [A] I'm talking about [Bb] guitar and timing.
_ _ [C] _ And wanting you to do _ [Bb] the right thing.
[C] I went with him [G] in 1956, _ [F] and he was living in Detroit, Michigan at the time.
_ _ And was playing with, _ [C] _ they had also had a barn dance, [D] _
_ _ of all places in Detroit, [B] Michigan, which was kind of odd.
I thought it was a sign.
[F] _ _ _
And [G] I know I'm number one on the earth, yeah.
[C] _ _
_ And [G] I know I'm number one on the earth. _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _
_ _ I said, hello, he said, is this Paul Williams?
[Am] I said, yeah, he said, this is Jimmy Martin, [Bb] _
up in [Eb] Detroit.
_ [Gb] He said, well, I'll tell you why [D] I called.
He said, I want you to go to work for [F] me.
Play the man and sing tenor.
[A] _
[B] He said, come on up, catch a bus and [A] come on up.
_ _ And so I did.
[Am] And that was in November, [A] _ _ _ _
1957. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
And [B] he come and [A] got me at the bus station, took me out there where [Am] [A] he lived.
And [D] there was a little [Am] slim red-headed fella [A] there. _ _ _ _
And Jimmy said, [C] I want to introduce you [A] to my banjo player.
This is [Bb] J.D. Crow.
[A] _ Some of the clubs that we played in [Eb] Detroit, _ [B] they're probably [D] gone by now.
They'd [A] be a good thing.
_ _ _ They were rough, a lot of them were.
It was mostly _ _ _ night clubs. _
_ _ _ _ And it was usually _ Thursday, Friday, Saturday nights.
_ _ And you'd start _ _ early evening and finish up _ midnight or later. _ _
But it was just a lot of fun for me back then because I hadn't been to Detroit before.
_ _ And there I was in the big city, big motor city, you know. _ _ _ _ _
But I enjoyed my stay there, when we were there.
In 1958, _ _ _ we got a chance to go [Bb] and audition on [A] the Louisiana Hayride,
_ _ which at that time was _ _ one of the _ big Saturday night _ jamborees.
_ [Dbm] _
WRVA in Richmond had the [B] barn dance, the old Minnie barn [A] dance.
_ Of course, [C] Wheeling had the Wheeling [A]
Jamboree.
And of course, you [Ab] had the Grand Ole Opry, [A] WSM.
But _ _ _ KWKH in Shreveport, Louisiana had the Hayride
_ and [B] had people on there like Johnny Horton and _ James O.
Gwynn.
_ Hank Williams had been there at one [C] time.
Webb [Ab] Pierce had been there at one [A] time. _
[G] And Jim Reeves had come through there at one time. _
[C] At that time, Jimmy's records were [A] doing pretty good.
They were recording for Decca at the time.
At 8 o'clock on Saturday night, _ one of [C] those shows was Coast to [A] Coast
on CBS Radio Network.
The Louisiana Hayride, I remember, was probably one of the finest places
that I really looked forward to playing. _ _ _ _
_ It's kind of hard to explain, but I think [C] everyone there
couldn't wait until Saturday night.
All right, we're going to put Jimmy Martin and his crew to work [Gb] again,
along [B] with the fiddlin' Dobber Johnson.
And we've got [Ebm] old J.D. Crowe and [D] his five-string banjo
[Bbm] to pick a little bit here tonight.
[G] Thank you so much, Frank.
It's awful not [Gb] to be down here at the good old Hayride.
Big out at all you folks here and also you folks [D] listening to us
by the [Em] way of radio.
We'd like to do [Am] that number, [G] _ J.D.,. especially for Tom and Nell and all them listening [Gbm] in. _ Now would [D] you folks like to hear J.D. [Gb] pick one on the five-string banjo? You [E] folks like to hear that, [A] huh? _ _ _ _ _ [G] That ain't enough. That's just a [Bb] few of you. I ask you, did you [E] want to hear him play one? I'm going to play it. _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Fm] _ With my help, J.D.,. you [Gbm] will be able to pick a banjo tune here [G] tonight. _ [Gbm] _ Have you got anybody [Ab] special you'd like to dedicate [Gb] this to, J.D.? [Ab] Nobody's I can think of. [F] Do it for Ken, [Bbm] the band here on stage. They'd like to hear you pick [Eb] too. Okay. Let's do a little trade, four to five. All right. _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ The crowds at the Louisiana Hayride, I think probably as much as there's been a [E] crowd, I'd have to play it. [D] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ Usually when we had the [Gbm] Hayride every Saturday [A] night, _ [Ab] _ _ [Gbm] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ [Gb] I forget how [A] many in hell, but probably a few [Dm] thousand. Jimmy said [D] that we was going _ _ to the _ _ [C] _ _ WWBA, _ [A] _ _ _ the Wheeling [B] Jamboree, Wheeling, West Virginia. _ [Gbm] _ _ _ [A] _ Jimmy mentioned [D] that to Paul and myself about the Hayride and thought about it. Of course, I don't [Gbm] think we wanted to go, but _ he thought [A] probably we _ could get some more work. _ _ It had [Db] got kind of [Ab] slack _ working [A] _ _ _ Oklahoma and New Mexico and Texas and _ around there in [Ab] Louisiana. And [G] also, I think [E] the _ _ [Gbm] concerts were a lot [A] better. _ You had a lot more [E] chance of playing more concerts. So we loaded up and went up there, and [A] it did get better. We did work more. _ _ It was a drastic change. _ Shreveport was Wheeling, West Virginia. _ _ And [E] I never really _ liked it. [A] We got a lot more work. _ _ Of course, the [B] work more, you got a little bit [C] more change, a little bit more jingle, you know. _ It always makes [Am] you feel better. _ We [Gbm] was doing a lot of traveling, and I was getting [Gb] tired, and [Am] _ I didn't like the place anyway. So [Ab] I think all those combinations, _ [Gbm] _ _ _ _ [D] well, I think I changed for a while _ _ _ through what happened. _ _

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