Chords for Finding a 1955 Martin D-18...Vintage Guitar Hunting

So [G] I just found there is a killer
_ [D] 1955 Martin d18 for sale maybe an hour from me, so I'm gonna run over them
I'm gonna jump in my car run over there meet with the guy and see if [G] I can find a deal
So it was just on Facebook [D] messenger.
It was on Facebook marketplace, so I don't know much
But it was in good condition looks like original finish some stuff [G] worn off the guy who's selling it
I talked [D] to him this morning, and he is the original buyer
He bought it in
_ 1959 from a friend of his who [Bm] bought it 1955 how cool is that so [G] if nothing else?
I'm just gonna get to [D] sit with the guy who bought this guitar in
[E] 1959 that's amazing so let's go
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_ [Gm] _ _ _ _ [Bm] So here I [E] am I made it my made my way to diamond head so this is a 1955 Martin d18
It's really cool, so I'm sitting here with Norm
I'll turn the camera around and show you here in a second, [B] but this guitar is great
So let me play it and then we'll [Gb] talk to Norm _ _
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[Gb] _ _ [N] Actions really not that bad, and there's plenty of room on the saddle
Has this ever had a reset doesn't look like it no
_ It's never had anything done.
That's so little I was gonna have it refinished one time the guy said oh
[Ebm] Yeah, you know [Ab] yeah
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You can buy [Gb] lots of those
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Cool, glad you like yeah, yeah, I dig it a lot.
I think and it'll sound great with some new strings on it
_ _ [B] _ So here it is [A] a cool
1955 Martin d18 so what happened was a couple days ago.
I found on the Facebook marketplace I found
Somebody saying they were [E] selling an old Martin it had been her husband since
[Eb] 1959 that is the kind of story.
I'm looking for all the time so [B] I ended up coming over I [Db] became friends with this [N] guy
Norman it was his guitar.
He bought when he was 19 years old
In Baytown, Texas he [F] bought it from a guy who bought it new from [E] New Orleans so in 1959
He bought it
He's had it ever since [A] and he said that he just spent the evenings just picking and grinning with his [B] friends drinking beer and playing
Guitar and so that's the story of [N] how I got to be where it is now
So there's some really cool play on it, but overall man.
It is in great [E] shape
So [Gb] very cool guitar good v-neck so here we go.
I'm gonna play it a little bit, and then I'll get back over to Louisiana
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_ _ _ _ [Ebm] So here's the basic facts
If you are regularly paying attention [F] to what's going on around you if you [N] regularly paying attention to
What guitars are coming up for sale or what kind of things you're looking for and then you show up with cash?
You get a discount so today
I ended up getting
$1,500 off the original asking [D] price of what this guy was asking for an expensive guitar
[Ab] Just because I showed [Eb] up, and I had cash in my pocket, so yeah, man show up [Eb] with cash it works alright everybody
[G] I'll see you later.
Let's go find some [Ebm] more cool gear _ _ _ _ _