Chords for Hank Snow talks about Jimmie Rodgers
Tempo:
65.65 bpm
Chords used:
G
A
D
Ab
Eb
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
I [D] haven't got [G] a nickel, [C] not a penny [G] can I shew.
[C] Get off, get [G] off, you railroad [A] bum, he [D] clams the boxcar [G] door.
Jimmy was a railroad man himself for several years until his health wouldn't permit it any longer.
[N] Many people know that Jimmy died of tuberculous at an early age.
But he wrote a lot of train songs while he was working on the Southern Railway among various railways in America.
[Ab] And was a great inspiration as I say to me and that's where I got the [G] idea of writing some of the train songs that [A] I had written back in the late 30s and early 40s.
I've rode that old Southern, I've rode that L and the S
[D] Southern, I've [A]
[E] had it before police don't get me.
I [A]
[Eb] first heard Jimmy Rogers when I was very young, I was in my teens [N] and [Bb] we had one of the old crank up gramophones we called them.
And I heard Jimmy's [D] first [Ab] record on the RCA label.
[Eb] It was Moonlight and Skies.
[Ab] And I became an ardent fan [G] right at that minute.
Straight away?
[F] Right away, no question.
I either had to duplicate Jimmy Rogers success before I died or else or both.
[A] Some like Chicago, some love Memphis, Tennessee.
Shout me more.
[D] Some like Chicago, some love [A] Memphis, Tennessee.
[E] Hey pretty mama, give me sweet Dallas, Texas where the wind
[Db] Nobody needs to want me, I'll lend me a helping hand.
I'm on my way from [Eb] Frisco, going back [Ab] to Dixieland.
[Db] Though my pocketbook is empty and my heart is full of pain.
I'm a thousand miles away from [Ab] home waiting for a train.
And you know it ain't that easy.
[N]
[C] Get off, get [G] off, you railroad [A] bum, he [D] clams the boxcar [G] door.
Jimmy was a railroad man himself for several years until his health wouldn't permit it any longer.
[N] Many people know that Jimmy died of tuberculous at an early age.
But he wrote a lot of train songs while he was working on the Southern Railway among various railways in America.
[Ab] And was a great inspiration as I say to me and that's where I got the [G] idea of writing some of the train songs that [A] I had written back in the late 30s and early 40s.
I've rode that old Southern, I've rode that L and the S
[D] Southern, I've [A]
[E] had it before police don't get me.
I [A]
[Eb] first heard Jimmy Rogers when I was very young, I was in my teens [N] and [Bb] we had one of the old crank up gramophones we called them.
And I heard Jimmy's [D] first [Ab] record on the RCA label.
[Eb] It was Moonlight and Skies.
[Ab] And I became an ardent fan [G] right at that minute.
Straight away?
[F] Right away, no question.
I either had to duplicate Jimmy Rogers success before I died or else or both.
[A] Some like Chicago, some love Memphis, Tennessee.
Shout me more.
[D] Some like Chicago, some love [A] Memphis, Tennessee.
[E] Hey pretty mama, give me sweet Dallas, Texas where the wind
[Db] Nobody needs to want me, I'll lend me a helping hand.
I'm on my way from [Eb] Frisco, going back [Ab] to Dixieland.
[Db] Though my pocketbook is empty and my heart is full of pain.
I'm a thousand miles away from [Ab] home waiting for a train.
And you know it ain't that easy.
[N]
Key:
G
A
D
Ab
Eb
G
A
D
I [D] haven't got [G] a nickel, [C] not a penny [G] can I shew.
[C] Get off, get [G] off, you railroad [A] bum, he [D] clams the boxcar [G] door.
Jimmy was a railroad man himself for several years until his health wouldn't permit it any longer.
[N] Many people know that Jimmy died of tuberculous at an early age.
But he wrote a lot of train songs while he was working on the Southern Railway among various railways in America.
[Ab] And was a great inspiration as I say to me and that's where I got the [G] idea of writing some of the train songs that [A] I had written back in the late 30s and early 40s.
I've rode that old Southern, I've rode that L and the S _
_ _ [D] _ Southern, I've _ [A] _ _
_ [E] had it before police don't get me.
I _ [A] _
[Eb] first heard Jimmy Rogers when I was very young, I was in my teens [N] and [Bb] we had one of the old crank up gramophones we called them.
And I heard Jimmy's [D] first [Ab] record on the RCA label.
_ [Eb] It was Moonlight and Skies. _
[Ab] And I became an ardent fan [G] right at that minute.
Straight away?
[F] Right away, no question. _
I either had to duplicate Jimmy Rogers success before I died or else or both.
[A] Some like Chicago, some love Memphis, Tennessee.
Shout me more.
[D] Some like Chicago, some love [A] Memphis, Tennessee.
_ _ [E] Hey pretty mama, give me sweet Dallas, Texas where the wind_
[Db] Nobody needs to want me, I'll lend me a helping hand.
I'm on my way from [Eb] Frisco, going back [Ab] to Dixieland.
_ [Db] Though my pocketbook is empty and my heart is full of pain.
I'm a thousand miles away from [Ab] home waiting for a train.
And you know it ain't that easy.
[N] _
[C] Get off, get [G] off, you railroad [A] bum, he [D] clams the boxcar [G] door.
Jimmy was a railroad man himself for several years until his health wouldn't permit it any longer.
[N] Many people know that Jimmy died of tuberculous at an early age.
But he wrote a lot of train songs while he was working on the Southern Railway among various railways in America.
[Ab] And was a great inspiration as I say to me and that's where I got the [G] idea of writing some of the train songs that [A] I had written back in the late 30s and early 40s.
I've rode that old Southern, I've rode that L and the S _
_ _ [D] _ Southern, I've _ [A] _ _
_ [E] had it before police don't get me.
I _ [A] _
[Eb] first heard Jimmy Rogers when I was very young, I was in my teens [N] and [Bb] we had one of the old crank up gramophones we called them.
And I heard Jimmy's [D] first [Ab] record on the RCA label.
_ [Eb] It was Moonlight and Skies. _
[Ab] And I became an ardent fan [G] right at that minute.
Straight away?
[F] Right away, no question. _
I either had to duplicate Jimmy Rogers success before I died or else or both.
[A] Some like Chicago, some love Memphis, Tennessee.
Shout me more.
[D] Some like Chicago, some love [A] Memphis, Tennessee.
_ _ [E] Hey pretty mama, give me sweet Dallas, Texas where the wind_
[Db] Nobody needs to want me, I'll lend me a helping hand.
I'm on my way from [Eb] Frisco, going back [Ab] to Dixieland.
_ [Db] Though my pocketbook is empty and my heart is full of pain.
I'm a thousand miles away from [Ab] home waiting for a train.
And you know it ain't that easy.
[N] _