Chords for Jimmy Martin at Home

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_ _ The house that you're now looking at is the home that I was born and raised up in
And walked away from with my guitar [N] to get me a job as an entertainer and singing on the radio. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ I was born up in East Tennessee
_ About five miles from a little town called Sneedville
My dad passed away when I was four years old, left my mother and five of us kids _
Times were really hard back then
_ [Bb] My mother cooked over an old wood stove
_ _ The only way we had to stay warm is get the old axe and crosscut saw out and saw some wood
Stay warm by when you got cold weather.
We didn't have any chainsaws then
Couldn't afford them
Remember
many times
After we get out for breakfast before we went to school, we'd get the cows in and help my mother milk
before going to school
We only got one pair of shoes a year.
Went barefooted all summer
When I was getting them cows in many mornings, it was cold
_ Didn't have any shoes
So made the old cow get up stood in a place where she was laying down the ground was really warm, warmed my feet up
_ After milk, we kept the shores, we'd go to school
_ Didn't have any trucks or cars
We had to walk to school
_ All we had around there on the farm was an old sled
and a wagon _
and a good pair of horses
[Gb] _ _ After we'd work around on the farm during the summer [Bb] and got all of our work caught up
_ Why?
I'd help my next-door neighbor, Neil Mullins, who was just like a daddy to me
He started me off working with him
50 cents a day then he
_ Finally raised me to a dollar
One summer I got ahead of enough money.
I think it's seven dollars.
I saved up.
Bought me a Gene Autry guitar
_ _ Well, then I walked about three miles on Sundays
Back in the hills there to a friend named Reuben Gibson _
Who learned me the chords so I could start singing
picking the guitar
[N] So I did I sung around home.
I honored the apple trees
Sung to people on side of the road stop and listen at us
So one day I got the old guitar
Decided I'd go and try to get me a job on the radio
_ So I put the old guitar on my back started walking down the road slump thumbing a ride
Remember my [Bb] stepfather saying to me
_ _ Cornbread and beans and taters will bring you back
well, _ _ _ I
picked on the radios
Traveled all during the hours of night and it's been a hard road
But I can say the folks and the people of country music and bluegrass music have been so good to me
That with that cornbread and beans and taters
And throw some ham in there with it bacon if I want pork chops
Or add some big old steaks in there with and I want to say thanks
to the people that has given me a lot of confidence and _
Myself and we've made this videotape
_ for you of the home that I [G] now live in and
_ beautiful Hermitage Hills, [Bb] Tennessee
_ just ten minutes from downtown Nashville and
_ about ten minutes from the Opera Land USA and home of the Grand Ole Opry _ and
Rock to and distance from the late president Andrew [N] Jackson.
_ I thought you folks would like to see where I live
I enjoy being around here on my farm with my pony mules red and Fred my bany hens and bany roosters
waking me up crowing every morning and
Also, my good coon dogs my little beagle house
I enjoy around my farm here and I hope you folks like this [Bb] videotape and my thanks to you
The people have stuck behind me and hit me as a little old country boy
Plowing corn for a dollar a day and now living here in Hermitage Hills.
I want you to see where I live _ _
Many thanks again to a dear friend out of Bristol, _ Tennessee
Who thought enough of me and had enough of courage to come down here and film this
Thanks to you Joe Morrell
Thank you.
Thanks to you Joe and all the friends.
I appreciate I hope you enjoy this videotape
We make sure here are some of the awards that Jimmy has received in country bluegrass music over the years
Here is an award presented to Jimmy by the mayor of Nashville, Tennessee
Here is the gold album that Jimmy received for his million seller.
Will