Chords for Jimi Jamison - Growing Up In Memphis (1 of 11)

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[C] [F] [Bb] I was born in Mississippi, but my mother immediately moved to Memphis, and that's where I grew
up was in Memphis.
I never lived in Mississippi at all.
Early family life was a little strange.
I lived on Highway 78 with my grandmother, my mother, three uncles, two aunts, seven
cousins, and a couple of dogs and cats in one house.
It was pretty wild.
It was kind of like the Beverly Hillbillies, but we had running water.
So it was pretty wild.
Of course, I grew up a big fan of Elvis since I was just a little tot.
As a matter of fact, growing up, he lived right down the street from where we lived
on 78 Highway.
Of course, he didn't when I was living there, but prior to that, he had lived there when
he was real small, and they had moved from Tupelo to Memphis.
So that was basically starting out.
That was basically where I lived with my whole family, with everybody.
There came a time my mother met a fella and remarried, and we moved away.
That was kind of a culture shock because I had all these people around all the time,
brothers and sisters and cousins, but there may as well have been brothers and sisters.
All of a sudden, I'm sitting in this room alone.
It's weird.
I started having to use my imagination.
So I guess that's kind of when I started listening to music and trying to figure out how to play
an instrument and stuff, a guitar.
A Sears Silverstone.
I remember my parents, they got me a Sears Silverstone with a silver tone with the amp
in the case.
How do you remember that?
Yeah, with the little lipstick pickups?
Exactly.
And that amp in the case was our first PA.
Wow.
The speaker's about this big.
My mom sang in church, but not in the choir.
She sang, you know, we sat in a crowd, and she sang in the crowd, and I would always
listen to her sing, and she sang really good.
She told me that my grandfather was a fiddle player, and that back in the, you know, they
lived back in the woods, you know, and they would have like a hoedown thing at their house,
and he'd play fiddle, and all the neighbors would come over, and they'd square dance and
stuff, you know.
And so that's, I guess that's where I got, everybody got their musical ability was from him.
I'd ride in the backseat of my parents' car, my stepdad and my mother's car, and I'd hear
the radio going with us singing these call letters and all this stuff, you know, and
all these people singing on the radio other than just the music, you know, the songs.
I was listening to the commercials and stuff in the call letters, you know, W-D-I-E.
I was saying, how do [F] they do that?
[E] How do they get to do that stuff and make money for it, you know?
And I would sit back there and [Am] listen to it just [Abm] constantly.
I'd take a [Bb] radio to bed with me at night, you know, and listen to the Beatles, the top
ten songs of the Beatles, you know, a little transistor radio.
And later on in life, I started doing that for a living, you know, I started singing
call letters and stuff for radio stations and stuff.
I never knew that it was like a dream that came true, but going back to the old days,
I would just like listen to the radio constantly.
I listened to anything on it, didn't make any difference what it was, blues, country.
Hank Williams was on the radio when I was a little kid, you know, I'd listen to that.
So I [F] was pretty much well-rounded.
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[F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ [F] _ _ _ [Bb] I was born in Mississippi, but my mother immediately moved to Memphis, and that's where I grew
up was in Memphis.
I never lived in Mississippi at all.
Early family life was a little strange.
I lived on Highway 78 with my grandmother, my mother, three uncles, two aunts, seven
cousins, and a couple of dogs and cats in one house.
It was pretty wild.
It was kind of like the Beverly Hillbillies, but we had running water.
So it was pretty wild.
Of course, I grew up a big fan of Elvis since I was just a little tot.
As a matter of fact, growing up, he lived right down the street from where we lived
on 78 Highway.
Of course, he didn't when I was living there, but prior to that, he had lived there when
he was real small, and they had moved from Tupelo to Memphis.
So that was basically starting out.
That was basically where I lived with my whole family, with everybody.
There came a time my mother met a fella and remarried, and we moved away.
That was kind of a culture shock because I had all these people around all the time,
brothers and sisters and cousins, but there may as well have been brothers and sisters.
All of a sudden, I'm sitting in this room alone.
It's weird.
I started having to _ use my imagination.
So I guess that's kind of when I started listening to music and trying to figure out how to play
an instrument and stuff, a guitar.
A Sears Silverstone.
I remember my parents, they got me a Sears Silverstone with a silver tone with the amp
in the case.
How do you remember that?
Yeah, with the little lipstick pickups?
Exactly.
And that amp in the case was our first PA.
Wow.
The speaker's about this big.
My mom sang in church, but not in the choir.
She sang, you know, we sat in a crowd, and she sang in the crowd, and I would always
listen to her sing, and she sang really good.
She told me that my grandfather was a fiddle player, and that back in the, you know, they
lived back in the woods, you know, and they would have like a hoedown thing at their house,
and he'd play fiddle, and all the neighbors would come over, and they'd square dance and
stuff, you know.
And so that's, I guess that's where I got, everybody got their musical ability was from him.
I'd ride in the backseat of my parents' car, my stepdad and my mother's car, and I'd hear
the radio going with us singing these call letters and all this stuff, you know, and
all these people singing on the radio other than just the music, you know, the songs.
I was listening to the commercials and stuff in the call letters, you know, W-D-I-E.
I was saying, how do [F] they do that?
[E] How do they get to do that stuff and make money for it, you know?
And I would sit back there and [Am] listen to it just [Abm] constantly.
I'd take a [Bb] radio to bed with me at night, you know, and listen to the Beatles, the top
ten songs of the Beatles, you know, a little transistor radio.
And later on in life, I started doing that for a living, you know, I started singing
call letters and stuff for radio stations and stuff.
I never knew that it was like a dream that came true, but going back to the old days,
I would just like listen to the radio constantly.
I listened to anything on it, didn't make any difference what it was, blues, country.
Hank Williams was on the radio when I was a little kid, you know, I'd listen to that.
So I [F] was pretty much well-rounded. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [N] _

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