Chords for Doc & Merle play "Make Me A Pallet" and "Streamline Cannonball."

_ _ We listened to a lot of people.
I think Merle, if you had to, if you ask him who his _
favorite musician was, it would be, there would be two people.
It would be his grandfather, Gaither Carlton, and
the late Gaither Carlton.
He was _ with us up until 72, and then the late John Hurt.
_ My mother started me out when Dad was out on the road. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ The first few years, I learned just being around the old. _
_ I guess my main influence was Mississippi John, John Hurt.
He learned an awful lot from his grandfather on the banjo. _
_ _ In fact, all his frailness came from Gaither, his style.
_ _ And John Hurt, well, John Hurt made an impression on everybody that listened to him.
It wasn't only his music, it was a man.
It was on the first concert I ever was on.
_ Well, I just, uh_ What?
I couldn't believe _ the music he did.
[Dm] John Hurt was one of my favorite people and favorite musicians out of the
rediscoveries of the old-timers and the folk scene in the 60s.
And Merle and I had the pleasure of playing a whole lot of music on shows with John Hurt.
And we actually had the pleasure of sitting down and picking some tunes with John a lot of times.
_ And we'd like to do a song here that me and Michael kind of likes to sing, too.
I kind of like the flavor of this song.
I guarantee you Merle will give [C#] you some of the John Hurt flavor on the guitar.
He plays a little stronger than Brother John did.
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But you'll hear the flavor in there, those of you that are familiar with John's music.
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_ [F#m] _ [G] Yes, I'm going up the [D] country through that sleet and snow.
Ain't no telling [G] just _ _ _ [D] _ _ how far [G] I'll go.
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Get my breakfast here and my [D] dinner in Tennessee.
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Get my breakfast here and [A] my dinner in Tennessee.
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Well, I'll [F#m] get my breakfast [G] here, my dinner in Tennessee.
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I [G] told you I [D] was coming, so you better look for me.
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Make me [D] down a pallet on your floor.
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Hey, make me down a [A] pallet on your floor.
[D] If you do, [F#] she might shoot [G] you, cut and [Em] stab you too.
[D] Hey, there ain't no tellin' what all that gal might do.
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Make me down a pallet on your [D] floor.
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Make me down a pallet on [A] your floor.
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Honey, [F#m] make it down, [G] make it soft and low.
[D] Then [G] baby, [D] my good gal, she won't _ know.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ The way I've been sleepin', my back and shoulders tired.
_ [G] The way I've been sleepin', my back and [A] shoulders tired.
Well, [D] the way I've been [F#] sleepin', [G] my back and shoulders tired.
[D] I think I'll turn and try sleepin' a while on my side.
[G] Make me down a pallet on [D] your floor.
_ [G] Make me down a [A] pallet on your floor.
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Honey, [F#] make it [Em] down, make it soft and [D] low.
Then baby, my good gal, she won't know.
Bigot son!
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_ _ _ [C#m] Long about 1939, long about 1939,
Brother Roy Acuff recorded a song called The Streamline Cannonball.
And I got to thinkin' about this song a long time after that one day,
and I thought, well, now that Streamline Cannonball didn't waltz down the railroad track.
You know, it got a move on.
Old Roy played her kinda like this.
[E] She _ moves along like a _ cannonball,
[A] Like a star in its [E] heavenly flight.
_ Well, I thought it ought to go a little different than that, something like that.
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_ _ _ _ _ She moves along like a _ [A] cannonball,
Like a star in [E] its heavenly flight.
_ The [A] lonesome [E] sound of the whistle you love,
As she rambles on through the night.
_ Along the steel rail and the short cross [A]-dye,
I'm on my [E] way back home.
_ I'm [A] on that [C#m] train, the king of them all,
[E] The Streamline Cannonball. _
She moves along like a cannonball,
[A] Like a star in its heavenly [Em] flight. _ _
[A] The lonesome [E] sound of the [C#m] whistle you [E] love,
As she [B] rambles on through [E] the night. _ _ _ _
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_ I can see a smile on the engineer's [A] face,
And although he's old [Em] and gray,
A [A] contented heart, [E] he waits for his call,
On that Streamline [B] _ [E] Cannonball.
_ She moves along like a _ cannonball,
[A] Like a star in its [Em] heavenly flight.
_ [B] _ [E] _ The lonesome sound of the whistle [C#m] you love,
[E] As she rambles on through the night. _ _ _ _ _ _
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[B] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ The headlights she beams all out through the night,
[A] And the firebox flash [E] you can't see.
I ride [A] the blinds, it's [E] the life that I love,
It's home sweet home to me.
She moves along like a cannonball,
Like a [A] star in its heavenly [E] flight.
The [A] lonesome [E] sound of the whistle you love,
As she rambles on through the night.
As she rambles on through the night. _ _ _ _
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