Chords for Dry Branch Fire Squad #1
Tempo:
115.7 bpm
Chords used:
D
E
Ab
Bb
Eb
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
Well, everybody in my family [G] believed in God except Uncle Wally.
Those kids wasn't allowed to [E] hang around with Uncle Wally because he [F] was an atheist, they said.
I thought that meant he could throw a ball with either hand.
[N] He used to have these revivals down in Appalachia.
Well, you could see signs out on the mountain, for instance, even like [Ab] you'd be riding around.
My [F] granddad, he'd [D] be riding around with Uncle [Ab] Wally and they'd look up and [Bb] see one of them big signs that says,
Christ is the answer.
And Uncle Wally would elbow him [A] and say,
Well, what's the question?
Which Jewish carpenter [E] wouldn't pay his union dues?
[Gb] [Bb]
[Ab] So one day, [Ebm] this was [D] evidently before I was born, but it was a famous [Am] story in the family.
When Billy Sunday was coming [N] to town, he had [Eb] been a former evangelist.
My granddad, he just [D] pestered Uncle Wally, he said,
You've got to go hear Billy Sunday preach.
So Uncle Wally went and after it was all over, my granddad runs up to Uncle Wally and says,
Man, now you've [Ab] heard Billy Sunday preach, do you [N] believe in God now?
He said, No, but I'll tell you [E] one thing,
Billy [Bbm] Sunday sure does.
[Eb]
[N]
So when I was six years old, a big tree fell on our church and made some of the pews hard to get to.
Couldn't figure nothing to do but build them another [Bb] and then the job fell on my grandfather
because he had the black lung [G] disease so bad he couldn't work.
And you know how it is when a man can't work or won't work, they'll make him [Ab] a minister.
[D] They got [Bb] to choose again.
We [C] decided it was time to hire a minister and our first [D] minister was a man named Reverend [Dm] Foote
and he was a good man.
And he was the first person [C] to bring guests into our church.
Members of the original Carter family come to [Eb] our church.
Then there was [Bb] the whole Chestnut Grove Quartet of Abington, [Ebm] Virginia that gave us this song here.
[Eb] I'll just tell you this, if [Ab] you do acquire a taste for real music, we can't do it right,
but people like the Chestnut Grove Quartet, [B] they never let things like pitch and [Db] timing get in the way of [Gm] their singing.
[Dm] [E]
They quit singing back [Bb] in 1941, but [Eb] there's some field recordings still available and you can get those and I recommend them.
[D]
One Sunday, a group called the Lewis family come to our church.
And what [E] Reverend Foote could do better than [Ab] anything was baptize people.
And in the summer, [D] people, deacons, they'd get baptized every Sunday and stuff.
And Reverend [A] Foote was about 6 [E]'7", weighed about 280, and wore starched white shirts and he'd go right out in the middle [D] of the Prince Road
and he'd be [Gm] baptizing people, and even [D] us little kids.
We know there was copper-headed rattlehoppers in that river, but still want to baptize by Reverend [Db] Foote.
[F] Well, anybody that's never seen the Lewis family, they've got a guy in the group named [B] Little Roy Lewis,
and me and him's the same age, and [E] we was the same age back then.
I [C] grew out of it.
[G] If you ever get a chance to see Little Roy, [E] he's old as I am [F] and still acts like he's 13.
And here's the thing, he's from Georgia, [E] so he talks with an [Dbm] accent.
[F]
Reverend [D] Foote was out there [Eb] baptizing people, and Little Roy [B] Lewis, about 12 years old,
was standing on the banks of the river, [G] ready to spin off.
[Gm] Now, Reverend [Ab] Foote, baptize me, baptize me, I want dinner on the grass.
[F] And Reverend Foote's trying to get on with the services and stuff, [C] you know, and not doing [G] everything,
and Roy Lewis, he just wouldn't do anything.
Come on now, Reverend Foote, he came to baptize [Cm] me.
Get rid of these old people and baptize me.
[Bb] [C] Directly, Reverend Foote walked over to the banks of the river and grabbed Little Roy Lewis
and took him out in [Cm] the middle of the river where Reverend Foote could still stand up
and commence [C] baptizing [N] him for longer than you would think it should take.
[D] We're on the banks of the river praying that Little Roy Lewis is going to survive this baptism.
[E] But Reverend Foote never let him baptize him, go [Ab] lonely directly.
He pulled Roy [G] up out of the river and looked at him right [A] now and he said,
Roy Lewis, did you see [N] Jesus?
And Roy said, no, Reverend Foote, I didn't.
He asked him again, he said, Roy Lewis, I'll give you one more chance, did you see Jesus?
No, Reverend Foote.
[Bb] And this time he's leaning [E] on him.
Roy's feet are kicking, his hands and buckles are coming up, his shirts are [Eb] flailing and everything.
[D] His head's right under there [Ab] baptizing the big Jesus [D] out of him.
Finally, Reverend Foote pulled him up and [N] said, Roy Lewis, did you see Jesus?
Reverend Foote, you sure this is where he went in at?
Those kids wasn't allowed to [E] hang around with Uncle Wally because he [F] was an atheist, they said.
I thought that meant he could throw a ball with either hand.
[N] He used to have these revivals down in Appalachia.
Well, you could see signs out on the mountain, for instance, even like [Ab] you'd be riding around.
My [F] granddad, he'd [D] be riding around with Uncle [Ab] Wally and they'd look up and [Bb] see one of them big signs that says,
Christ is the answer.
And Uncle Wally would elbow him [A] and say,
Well, what's the question?
Which Jewish carpenter [E] wouldn't pay his union dues?
[Gb] [Bb]
[Ab] So one day, [Ebm] this was [D] evidently before I was born, but it was a famous [Am] story in the family.
When Billy Sunday was coming [N] to town, he had [Eb] been a former evangelist.
My granddad, he just [D] pestered Uncle Wally, he said,
You've got to go hear Billy Sunday preach.
So Uncle Wally went and after it was all over, my granddad runs up to Uncle Wally and says,
Man, now you've [Ab] heard Billy Sunday preach, do you [N] believe in God now?
He said, No, but I'll tell you [E] one thing,
Billy [Bbm] Sunday sure does.
[Eb]
[N]
So when I was six years old, a big tree fell on our church and made some of the pews hard to get to.
Couldn't figure nothing to do but build them another [Bb] and then the job fell on my grandfather
because he had the black lung [G] disease so bad he couldn't work.
And you know how it is when a man can't work or won't work, they'll make him [Ab] a minister.
[D] They got [Bb] to choose again.
We [C] decided it was time to hire a minister and our first [D] minister was a man named Reverend [Dm] Foote
and he was a good man.
And he was the first person [C] to bring guests into our church.
Members of the original Carter family come to [Eb] our church.
Then there was [Bb] the whole Chestnut Grove Quartet of Abington, [Ebm] Virginia that gave us this song here.
[Eb] I'll just tell you this, if [Ab] you do acquire a taste for real music, we can't do it right,
but people like the Chestnut Grove Quartet, [B] they never let things like pitch and [Db] timing get in the way of [Gm] their singing.
[Dm] [E]
They quit singing back [Bb] in 1941, but [Eb] there's some field recordings still available and you can get those and I recommend them.
[D]
One Sunday, a group called the Lewis family come to our church.
And what [E] Reverend Foote could do better than [Ab] anything was baptize people.
And in the summer, [D] people, deacons, they'd get baptized every Sunday and stuff.
And Reverend [A] Foote was about 6 [E]'7", weighed about 280, and wore starched white shirts and he'd go right out in the middle [D] of the Prince Road
and he'd be [Gm] baptizing people, and even [D] us little kids.
We know there was copper-headed rattlehoppers in that river, but still want to baptize by Reverend [Db] Foote.
[F] Well, anybody that's never seen the Lewis family, they've got a guy in the group named [B] Little Roy Lewis,
and me and him's the same age, and [E] we was the same age back then.
I [C] grew out of it.
[G] If you ever get a chance to see Little Roy, [E] he's old as I am [F] and still acts like he's 13.
And here's the thing, he's from Georgia, [E] so he talks with an [Dbm] accent.
[F]
Reverend [D] Foote was out there [Eb] baptizing people, and Little Roy [B] Lewis, about 12 years old,
was standing on the banks of the river, [G] ready to spin off.
[Gm] Now, Reverend [Ab] Foote, baptize me, baptize me, I want dinner on the grass.
[F] And Reverend Foote's trying to get on with the services and stuff, [C] you know, and not doing [G] everything,
and Roy Lewis, he just wouldn't do anything.
Come on now, Reverend Foote, he came to baptize [Cm] me.
Get rid of these old people and baptize me.
[Bb] [C] Directly, Reverend Foote walked over to the banks of the river and grabbed Little Roy Lewis
and took him out in [Cm] the middle of the river where Reverend Foote could still stand up
and commence [C] baptizing [N] him for longer than you would think it should take.
[D] We're on the banks of the river praying that Little Roy Lewis is going to survive this baptism.
[E] But Reverend Foote never let him baptize him, go [Ab] lonely directly.
He pulled Roy [G] up out of the river and looked at him right [A] now and he said,
Roy Lewis, did you see [N] Jesus?
And Roy said, no, Reverend Foote, I didn't.
He asked him again, he said, Roy Lewis, I'll give you one more chance, did you see Jesus?
No, Reverend Foote.
[Bb] And this time he's leaning [E] on him.
Roy's feet are kicking, his hands and buckles are coming up, his shirts are [Eb] flailing and everything.
[D] His head's right under there [Ab] baptizing the big Jesus [D] out of him.
Finally, Reverend Foote pulled him up and [N] said, Roy Lewis, did you see Jesus?
Reverend Foote, you sure this is where he went in at?
Key:
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Bb
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E
Ab
_ _ _ Well, _ _ _ _ _ everybody in my family [G] believed in God except Uncle Wally.
Those kids wasn't allowed to [E] hang around with Uncle Wally because he [F] was an atheist, they said.
I thought that meant he could throw a ball with either hand.
_ _ _ [N] He used to have these revivals down in Appalachia.
Well, you could see signs out on the mountain, for instance, even like [Ab] you'd be riding around.
My [F] granddad, he'd [D] be riding around with Uncle [Ab] Wally and they'd look up and [Bb] see one of them big signs that says,
Christ is the answer.
And Uncle Wally would elbow him [A] and say,
Well, what's the question?
Which Jewish carpenter [E] wouldn't pay his union dues?
_ _ _ [Gb] _ _ [Bb] _
_ [Ab] So one day, [Ebm] this was [D] evidently before I was born, but it was a famous [Am] story in the family.
When Billy Sunday was coming [N] to town, _ _ he had [Eb] been a former _ evangelist.
My granddad, he just [D] pestered Uncle Wally, he said,
You've got to go hear Billy Sunday preach.
So Uncle Wally went and after it was all over, my granddad runs up to Uncle Wally and says,
Man, now you've [Ab] heard Billy Sunday preach, do you [N] believe in God now?
He said, No, but I'll tell you [E] one thing,
Billy [Bbm] Sunday sure does.
[Eb] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _
So when I was six years old, a big tree fell on our church and made some of the pews hard to get to.
_ _ Couldn't figure nothing to do but build them another [Bb] and then the job fell on my grandfather
because he had the black lung [G] disease so bad he couldn't work.
And you know how it is when a man can't work or won't work, they'll make him [Ab] a minister.
[D] They _ _ got [Bb] to choose again.
We [C] decided it was time to hire a minister and our first [D] minister was a man named Reverend [Dm] Foote
and he was a good man.
And he was the first person [C] to bring guests into our church.
Members of the original Carter family come to [Eb] our church. _ _ _
Then there was [Bb] the whole Chestnut Grove Quartet of Abington, [Ebm] Virginia that gave us this song here.
[Eb] I'll just tell you this, if [Ab] you do acquire a taste for real music, we can't do it right,
but people like the Chestnut Grove Quartet, [B] they never let things like pitch and [Db] timing get in the way of [Gm] their singing.
_ _ [Dm] _ _ [E] _
They quit singing back [Bb] in 1941, but [Eb] there's some field recordings still available and you can get those and I recommend them.
[D] _
_ One Sunday, a group called the Lewis family come to our church.
And what [E] Reverend Foote could do better than [Ab] anything was baptize people.
And in the summer, [D] people, deacons, they'd get baptized every Sunday and stuff.
And Reverend [A] Foote was about 6 [E]'7", weighed about 280, and wore starched white shirts and he'd go right out in the middle [D] of the Prince Road
and he'd be [Gm] baptizing people, and even [D] us little kids.
We know there was copper-headed rattlehoppers in that river, but still want to baptize by Reverend [Db] Foote.
_ [F] Well, anybody that's never seen the Lewis family, they've got a guy in the group named [B] Little Roy Lewis,
and me and him's the same age, and [E] we was the same age back then.
_ _ I [C] grew out of it.
_ _ [G] If you ever get a chance to see Little Roy, [E] he's old as I am [F] and still acts like he's 13.
And here's the thing, he's from Georgia, [E] so he talks with an [Dbm] accent.
_ _ [F] _
Reverend [D] Foote was out there [Eb] baptizing people, and Little Roy [B] Lewis, about 12 years old,
was standing on the banks of the river, [G] ready to spin off.
[Gm] Now, Reverend [Ab] Foote, baptize me, baptize me, I want dinner on the grass.
[F] And Reverend Foote's trying to get on with the services and stuff, [C] you know, and not doing [G] everything,
and Roy Lewis, he just wouldn't do anything.
Come on now, Reverend Foote, he came to baptize [Cm] me.
Get rid of these old people and baptize me.
[Bb] _ [C] Directly, Reverend Foote walked over to the banks of the river and grabbed Little Roy Lewis
and took him out in [Cm] the middle of the river where Reverend Foote could still stand up _ _ _
and commence [C] baptizing [N] him for longer than you would think it should take.
[D] _ _ _ _ We're on the banks of the river praying that Little Roy Lewis is going to survive this baptism.
_ _ [E] But Reverend Foote never let him baptize him, go [Ab] lonely directly.
He pulled Roy [G] up out of the river and looked at him right [A] now and he said,
Roy Lewis, did you see [N] Jesus?
And Roy said, no, Reverend Foote, I didn't.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ He asked him again, he said, Roy Lewis, I'll give you one more chance, did you see Jesus?
No, Reverend Foote.
[Bb] And this time he's leaning [E] on him.
_ _ Roy's feet are kicking, his hands and buckles are coming up, his shirts are [Eb] flailing and everything.
_ [D] His head's right under there [Ab] baptizing the big Jesus [D] out of him.
_ Finally, Reverend Foote pulled him up and [N] said, Roy Lewis, did you see Jesus?
Reverend Foote, you sure this is where he went in at?
Those kids wasn't allowed to [E] hang around with Uncle Wally because he [F] was an atheist, they said.
I thought that meant he could throw a ball with either hand.
_ _ _ [N] He used to have these revivals down in Appalachia.
Well, you could see signs out on the mountain, for instance, even like [Ab] you'd be riding around.
My [F] granddad, he'd [D] be riding around with Uncle [Ab] Wally and they'd look up and [Bb] see one of them big signs that says,
Christ is the answer.
And Uncle Wally would elbow him [A] and say,
Well, what's the question?
Which Jewish carpenter [E] wouldn't pay his union dues?
_ _ _ [Gb] _ _ [Bb] _
_ [Ab] So one day, [Ebm] this was [D] evidently before I was born, but it was a famous [Am] story in the family.
When Billy Sunday was coming [N] to town, _ _ he had [Eb] been a former _ evangelist.
My granddad, he just [D] pestered Uncle Wally, he said,
You've got to go hear Billy Sunday preach.
So Uncle Wally went and after it was all over, my granddad runs up to Uncle Wally and says,
Man, now you've [Ab] heard Billy Sunday preach, do you [N] believe in God now?
He said, No, but I'll tell you [E] one thing,
Billy [Bbm] Sunday sure does.
[Eb] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _
So when I was six years old, a big tree fell on our church and made some of the pews hard to get to.
_ _ Couldn't figure nothing to do but build them another [Bb] and then the job fell on my grandfather
because he had the black lung [G] disease so bad he couldn't work.
And you know how it is when a man can't work or won't work, they'll make him [Ab] a minister.
[D] They _ _ got [Bb] to choose again.
We [C] decided it was time to hire a minister and our first [D] minister was a man named Reverend [Dm] Foote
and he was a good man.
And he was the first person [C] to bring guests into our church.
Members of the original Carter family come to [Eb] our church. _ _ _
Then there was [Bb] the whole Chestnut Grove Quartet of Abington, [Ebm] Virginia that gave us this song here.
[Eb] I'll just tell you this, if [Ab] you do acquire a taste for real music, we can't do it right,
but people like the Chestnut Grove Quartet, [B] they never let things like pitch and [Db] timing get in the way of [Gm] their singing.
_ _ [Dm] _ _ [E] _
They quit singing back [Bb] in 1941, but [Eb] there's some field recordings still available and you can get those and I recommend them.
[D] _
_ One Sunday, a group called the Lewis family come to our church.
And what [E] Reverend Foote could do better than [Ab] anything was baptize people.
And in the summer, [D] people, deacons, they'd get baptized every Sunday and stuff.
And Reverend [A] Foote was about 6 [E]'7", weighed about 280, and wore starched white shirts and he'd go right out in the middle [D] of the Prince Road
and he'd be [Gm] baptizing people, and even [D] us little kids.
We know there was copper-headed rattlehoppers in that river, but still want to baptize by Reverend [Db] Foote.
_ [F] Well, anybody that's never seen the Lewis family, they've got a guy in the group named [B] Little Roy Lewis,
and me and him's the same age, and [E] we was the same age back then.
_ _ I [C] grew out of it.
_ _ [G] If you ever get a chance to see Little Roy, [E] he's old as I am [F] and still acts like he's 13.
And here's the thing, he's from Georgia, [E] so he talks with an [Dbm] accent.
_ _ [F] _
Reverend [D] Foote was out there [Eb] baptizing people, and Little Roy [B] Lewis, about 12 years old,
was standing on the banks of the river, [G] ready to spin off.
[Gm] Now, Reverend [Ab] Foote, baptize me, baptize me, I want dinner on the grass.
[F] And Reverend Foote's trying to get on with the services and stuff, [C] you know, and not doing [G] everything,
and Roy Lewis, he just wouldn't do anything.
Come on now, Reverend Foote, he came to baptize [Cm] me.
Get rid of these old people and baptize me.
[Bb] _ [C] Directly, Reverend Foote walked over to the banks of the river and grabbed Little Roy Lewis
and took him out in [Cm] the middle of the river where Reverend Foote could still stand up _ _ _
and commence [C] baptizing [N] him for longer than you would think it should take.
[D] _ _ _ _ We're on the banks of the river praying that Little Roy Lewis is going to survive this baptism.
_ _ [E] But Reverend Foote never let him baptize him, go [Ab] lonely directly.
He pulled Roy [G] up out of the river and looked at him right [A] now and he said,
Roy Lewis, did you see [N] Jesus?
And Roy said, no, Reverend Foote, I didn't.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ He asked him again, he said, Roy Lewis, I'll give you one more chance, did you see Jesus?
No, Reverend Foote.
[Bb] And this time he's leaning [E] on him.
_ _ Roy's feet are kicking, his hands and buckles are coming up, his shirts are [Eb] flailing and everything.
_ [D] His head's right under there [Ab] baptizing the big Jesus [D] out of him.
_ Finally, Reverend Foote pulled him up and [N] said, Roy Lewis, did you see Jesus?
Reverend Foote, you sure this is where he went in at?