Chords for Lester Flatt and The Nashville Grass with a young Marty Stuart

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_ _ [N] Thank you.
_ Thank you so very much and a great big howdy and welcome to our show this week.
We're really delighted you invited us into your home this week and especially because of our guest.
Because here's some guys that I really love and admire in country music.
This man has written and probably progressed bluegrass music as much as anyone in the world.
He's a great man, got a great band, a great show.
Make him welcome to our show today, Lester Flatt, the Nashville Grand. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ Bluebird singing in [D] the blue ridge mountains [E] calling me back [A] to my home.
_ I can _ hear the [D] bluebirds calling [E] _ me back [A] to my home.
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_ _ _ _ There was a girl I [D] loved so dearly.
She [E] lived away [A] back in the hills where the bluebirds sing.
I miss [D] my darling.
_ She loved [E] me I know.
And she [A] always will.
_ There's the bluebirds singing [D] in the blue ridge mountains [E] calling me [A] back to my home.
I can hear the [D] _ bluebirds calling [E] me [A] back to my home. _ _
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I reached my home I was [D] oh so lonely.
_ [E] While I _ loved it [A] gone away.
The sad sad news came [D] from her mother.
She's [E] resting down [A] beneath the _ clouds.
Bluebirds singing in [D] the blue ridge mountains [E] calling me [A] back to my home.
_ Oh I can _ hear [D] the bluebirds calling [E] _ me [A] back to my home.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Great job.
_ Thank you, Lester.
_ Lester Flatt and the Nashville Grands.
We'll be talking to Lester a little later on in our show.
In fact, [Abm] we're going to have him do some good [A] instrumental picking for you. _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ It's time for our special guest once again.
And I think one of the greatest shows that goes out of Nashville, Tennessee is these gentlemen here.
They really put on a clean, good, country, wholesome show.
So when they come to your area, go and see them.
You'll enjoy yourself.
And Lester, what are you all going to do this time for us?
We'd like to do a little tune, Porter, entitled The [G] Country Boy.
Country Boy.
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Now you can [C] take a boy [G] from the country, _ but you can't take [C] country from the boy.
_ You can take him [G] to the city and make him a story, [D] but you can't take country from [G] the boy. _ _ _
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I [C] once knew a boy [G] from the country _ that made the big time with his old guitar.
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He was always [G] the same.
You don't never change [D] if you are a real [G] country boy.
_ Now you can [C] take [G] a boy from the country, _ but you can't take country [C] from the boy.
_ You can take him to [G] the city and make him a story, but [Bm] you can't take country [G] from the boy. _ _ _ _
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Great job.
Last commentary is this. _ _ _ _
I wanted to mention, it seems like our time is gone before we really get started,
but of course, Curly Sackler sang with you there in Haskell McCormick.
And mention the other boys in the National Jazz Chorus.
The [G] little bitty one there is Marnie Stewart, Mississippi boy.
He's 14 years old.
Right, and the other fellow is Charlie Nixon.
Of course, the fiddler [Eb] is Paul Warren.
[A] Paul Warren.
And great, great, great job.
Thank you a lot, Lester.
Thank you, Porter.
Thank you so much.
Enjoy.
This has been the Porter Wagner Show.
Have fun with good country music and fun.
Waltzing from home in the Grand Ole [E] Opry.