Chords for Arkansas Traveller - Tommy Jarrell

One old fellow who's been around a lot has come back home to Mount Airy, North Carolina, Tommy Jarrell _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ That's great Tommy.
Arkansas traveler
You've been playing the fiddle around here only a lifetime.
[G] Well ever since I was 13 years old
I've been a trying and you learned it from your father.
That's right and
And you had an uncle Charlie.
Well, I've learned a few tunes from other fellows, you know, but I started out with them
Yeah, and what did your daddy do around here?
well, he he was a farmer and a moonshiner and a store owner and
And it seems to be a lot of moonshine down here.
It's not really
Land was some poor up there
Well, where I was raised that you had to do something besides trying to farm to make a living
I made a crop of tobacco and and it like two dollars and a half paying the fertilizer bill
And I said well, I'll never make no more tobacco and I went to moonshine in there
But and my daddy he got a contract to go out in South Dakota and make some whiskey
And he backed out and he asked me if I want to go do the job.
I said, yeah, I'll go
Yeah, good a whiskey you ever drink
But it is right after
World War one
And folks is all broke out there I made 600 gallons of whiskey out there
Of course, I got the most of it stole my partner stole it.
I had his brother-in-law to
And I like never got enough money to get home _
And I stopped out in West Virginia and made some out there
Before I got home.
Yeah, you're leaving a trail of whiskey all across this country.
I
left home with a hundred dollars
in a ticket and
I got off a train mount air with sixteen dollars and a half and I was gone like in eight days six months
I tell good I done the moon John
Yeah, and you played for all of
You know all the dances around here.
They stop at you, you know playing music for a man.
Yeah, I did up there around home
Well, not all of them.
Of course, uncle Charlie and daddy.
They played long as they played, you know
Yeah, when did you play your first square dance, oh
I played with my daddy when I was eight or ten years old played the banger, you know
Square dance.
Well, I don't recollect when I played the first fiddle
You know recollect playing one time down to my name ain't Freeman's
I was playing the fiddle and me and Charlie low in one room and daddy in Dixon
Oh, man was a plan the boundary and fiddle in another room and there's a dancing in two rooms
Well, we've got a dancer
Here today.
There's gonna dance for us Carol Malik from Asheville
You dance all around the country.
Don't you?
I have all over this country in Canada and some in Europe
And what are you gonna dance for us?
I'm gonna do a flatfoot
It's kind of a an odd name for a dance of flatfoot
Well, sometimes it's called clogging and sometimes it's called back dancing, but it's flat footing because your feet are [Abm] close to the ground
Well, tell me you're gonna play for this thing
What's that [Gm] you gonna play for the dancing [D] yeah, you go.
Yeah, what do you want that's our Jamie Sutton again All right
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