Chords for Dusty Old Fairgrounds {Live Town Hall 1963} (15/25) - Elston Gunn

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Here's a fairground song, [B] it's a carnival song.
Just a root, a root song.
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[E] Let me just sort of explain to you a little bit.
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_ _ _ _ _ It's all up from Florida at the start of the spring
The trucks and the trailers will be winding
[D] _ [G] Like a bullet we'll shoot [C] for the carnival [G] route
We're following them dusty old fairgrounds a-calling
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From the Michigan mud past the Wisconsin sun
Across that Minnesota border keep [D] them scrambling
Through [G] the Clear County lakes and [C] the [G] lumberjack lands
_ We're following them dusty old fairgrounds a-calling _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Hits Fargo on the jump and down to Aberdeen
Across them old black hills [D] keep them rolling _ _ _ _ _
[G] Through the cow country towns [C] and the [G] sands of old Montana
We're following them [D] fairgrounds a-calling
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_ _ _ _ As the white line on the highway sails under your wheels
I gaze from the trailer [D] window laughing
_ [G] Oh our clothes they was torn but the colors they was bright
Following dusty old fairgrounds a-calling
[C] _ [G] It's _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
a many a friend that follows the band
The jugglers, the hustlers, [D] the gamblers
[G] I spend my time [C] with the fortune [G] telling kind
Following them fairgrounds a-calling _
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Oh it's pound down the rails and it's tie down the tents
Get that canvas flag [D] a-flying
Let _ _ [G] the caterpillar spin, [C] let the [G] fast wheel wind
Following them fairgrounds a-calling _
_ _ _ Oh it's rolling the town straight to the fairgrounds
Just behind the posters that [D] are hanging
_ _ [G] And it's fill up every space [C] with a different [G] kind of face
Following them [A] fairgrounds a [G]-calling _ _ _ _
_ _ Woo! _ _ _ _
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Get the gants and girls in [C] front, get the gambling show [G] behind
Get that old music box a [D]-banging
_ Get them [G] kids faces smiles [C] up and down the [G] midway aisles
Following them [D] fairgrounds a [G]-calling _ _
_ _ It's a drag it on down by the deadline in the town
Hit the old highway [D] by the morning
[G] And it's Roger self blind [C] for the next [G] town on time
Following them fairgrounds a-calling
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_ _ _ _ _ As the harmonicas wind in the lonesome night time
Drinking red wine as we're [D] rolling
_ Many a turn I [C] turn, many a lesson [G] I've learned
Following them fairgrounds a-calling _ _ _ _
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And it's rolled back down to St.
Petersburg
_ Tie down the trailers [D] and camp them _
[G] And the money that we made we'll pay for the space
From following them dusty old _ fairgrounds a-calling
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[Eb] _ If you _ want _ to know about the abolishment of boxing
I would ask Mrs.
Benny Kidd-Parette and Mrs.
Davy Moore
Before I ask Cassius Clay
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Just a personal tendency there
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