Chords for LIVE FROM THE COOK SHACK - ROY BOOK BINDER - "Travelin' Man"
Tempo:
89.95 bpm
Chords used:
C
A
F
G
D
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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Old man in Spartanburg, South Carolina, which isn't too far from here.
And his name was Pink Anderson.
Don't go speaking to old lads, that's been dead for years.
[F#]
He died [G] in 1974.
[D] [C] He made his first records in [F#] 1927 or 28,
recorded with [G] Columbia Records.
Made two records, that's four songs in [E] those days.
[G] Let's play that to the young people. Shh.
[A]
[E] [N] Pink did a lot of novelty tunes.
He was a funny fellow.
He worked his whole life in medicine shows,
and that would be the comfortable town like Union Grove.
Pink would walk around town playing his guitar,
attracting a crowd.
They called it dragging the streets.
He'd pull a crowd down to the end of the street
where there was a flatbed truck made of stage.
And then he'd jump up there and his buddy Peg Leg Sam
would jump up there and Pink would be playing
and Peg would be dancing on the peg.
That was a big attraction.
Lotus harmonica.
And then the doctor or the Indian chief
would come out and sell the patent medicine,
guaranteed you anything you might have
or might get in the near future.
[G] [D] Just like today, you can't [F] get it from your doctor.
Don't go to your pharmacist, send $29.90.
[G] And they made a lot of money, those guys.
[F#] The last medicine show went out in the spring of 1970,
I think it was.
Pink Anderson [E] and Peg Leg Sam, they had it [A] arranged.
They thought Pink [D#] wasn't working anymore
because he was [D] a little sickly.
[Gm] But [E] Peg Leg Sam was still at it
and still could [Gm] shake a leg pretty [D] good.
Just walking.
[C] [F#] And he had arranged that [A] I was going to go [G] out
and see Thunder Cloud's medicine show.
[D] And then I got a [G] call during the winter that said it's off.
The [F#] chief's heart attacked him and he's dead.
So I might have had something to talk about.
[G#m] [D#] Here's a song Pink used to do.
[C] I just want to tell you about a man named [F] Boone.
His home was [C] down in Tennessee.
Now Boone made [A] his living stealing [Am] chickens.
And anything he could [C] see.
The Popeye [C] man run so fast
[F] his feet never [F#] did stay in the road.
The freight [A] train passed him,
it didn't matter [E] how fast Boone would get on board.
He was a traveling man.
That's what [F] they said.
He certainly [C] was a traveling man.
You know [A] Boone was the most [D] traveledest man
that ever was in [G] that land?
[C] Yeah, he traveled everywhere.
[F] He was known [F#m] in the house of [C] the
Didn't get caught, didn't get [D] whooped
till the [C] police shot him down.
[Cm] Police, [C] high motor mobiles,
the purpose is to chase old Boone.
[B] They was chasing him [A] from six o'clock in the morning
till [G] half past seven in the [C] afternoon.
The Popeye man run so [F] fast
that fire didn't come from his [E] heels.
He burned [A] the cotton, he scorched the corn,
he might as well have [Bm] drove to the farmer's [C] field.
They called him a traveling man.
[F] Certainly was [C] a traveling man.
[A] Boone was the most traveledest man.
[F#m] [G] That's right, he traveled [E] like I said.
He [Dm] was known [F#m] in the house of the
Didn't get [A] caught, didn't get whooped
[D] till the police shot [C] him down.
[C] Now this boy went down to the spring one [F] day
to get a [C] pail of water.
The [B] distance that Boone had to go
[D] could have been more than two miles
[G] and the dog gone caught.
[C] Got back out his water, but when he started [F] back
he knew that he [D#] stumbled and he fell down.
Ran to the house, got another bucket
and caught [Am] the water for a [C] dusting.
He was a traveling man.
Certainly was a traveling man.
He was, he [A] wasn't?
[D] Uh-huh, that's right.
Yeah, he traveled.
[C] Everywhere, he [F] was known,
many miles around.
Didn't get [A] caught, didn't get whooped
[B] till the police shot him down.
Now you all heard about the Titanic ship
in Union Grove, [F] North Carolina.
[C] He was on it when it was going down.
He was [A] standing out by the port [Am] side.
[C] His head hung down.
When a boy jumped [G] overboard,
everybody said Boone [C] was a fool.
About two minutes [A] right after that
he was [G] shooting dice at Liverpool.
[A] He was a traveling [C] man.
[F] Certainly was a traveling man.
[B] [A] Yeah, he traveled.
[D] Really?
[B] Yeah, he [C] traveled everywhere.
[F] Known for making [B] miles around,
but didn't get caught ever.
Got [F#m] whooped till the police [C] shot him down.
Listen, the police shot him with a [F] rifle.
A bullet [C] went through his head.
People, they were coming from miles [D] around
to see if Boone was [G] really dead.
They [C] telegrammed way down southwest, Momma [F] lived.
She was [C] carried away, upset with [F] tears.
[F#m] Walked up, opened up the coffins,
lit with [A] the food, and disappeared.
[C] He was a traveling man.
Certainly was a traveling man.
The boy [A] traveled.
Mmmmm.
[C] He traveled everywhere.
He [F] was known for making miles around,
but he didn't get [A] caught
and he never got whooped
[G] until the police [Am] shot him down.
The [C] police finally caught the traveling [F] man
They had him up to hang [C] one day.
The [A] jury man all asked,
[D] what did he have to [F#] say?
[Em] He begged the jury man
to bow their [F] heads,
bow their [C] heads in [F] prayer.
He crossed one leg and he winked an [D] eye
and went up to [A#] the
[D] [F#] [A] [C]
And his name was Pink Anderson.
Don't go speaking to old lads, that's been dead for years.
[F#]
He died [G] in 1974.
[D] [C] He made his first records in [F#] 1927 or 28,
recorded with [G] Columbia Records.
Made two records, that's four songs in [E] those days.
[G] Let's play that to the young people. Shh.
[A]
[E] [N] Pink did a lot of novelty tunes.
He was a funny fellow.
He worked his whole life in medicine shows,
and that would be the comfortable town like Union Grove.
Pink would walk around town playing his guitar,
attracting a crowd.
They called it dragging the streets.
He'd pull a crowd down to the end of the street
where there was a flatbed truck made of stage.
And then he'd jump up there and his buddy Peg Leg Sam
would jump up there and Pink would be playing
and Peg would be dancing on the peg.
That was a big attraction.
Lotus harmonica.
And then the doctor or the Indian chief
would come out and sell the patent medicine,
guaranteed you anything you might have
or might get in the near future.
[G] [D] Just like today, you can't [F] get it from your doctor.
Don't go to your pharmacist, send $29.90.
[G] And they made a lot of money, those guys.
[F#] The last medicine show went out in the spring of 1970,
I think it was.
Pink Anderson [E] and Peg Leg Sam, they had it [A] arranged.
They thought Pink [D#] wasn't working anymore
because he was [D] a little sickly.
[Gm] But [E] Peg Leg Sam was still at it
and still could [Gm] shake a leg pretty [D] good.
Just walking.
[C] [F#] And he had arranged that [A] I was going to go [G] out
and see Thunder Cloud's medicine show.
[D] And then I got a [G] call during the winter that said it's off.
The [F#] chief's heart attacked him and he's dead.
So I might have had something to talk about.
[G#m] [D#] Here's a song Pink used to do.
[C] I just want to tell you about a man named [F] Boone.
His home was [C] down in Tennessee.
Now Boone made [A] his living stealing [Am] chickens.
And anything he could [C] see.
The Popeye [C] man run so fast
[F] his feet never [F#] did stay in the road.
The freight [A] train passed him,
it didn't matter [E] how fast Boone would get on board.
He was a traveling man.
That's what [F] they said.
He certainly [C] was a traveling man.
You know [A] Boone was the most [D] traveledest man
that ever was in [G] that land?
[C] Yeah, he traveled everywhere.
[F] He was known [F#m] in the house of [C] the
Didn't get caught, didn't get [D] whooped
till the [C] police shot him down.
[Cm] Police, [C] high motor mobiles,
the purpose is to chase old Boone.
[B] They was chasing him [A] from six o'clock in the morning
till [G] half past seven in the [C] afternoon.
The Popeye man run so [F] fast
that fire didn't come from his [E] heels.
He burned [A] the cotton, he scorched the corn,
he might as well have [Bm] drove to the farmer's [C] field.
They called him a traveling man.
[F] Certainly was [C] a traveling man.
[A] Boone was the most traveledest man.
[F#m] [G] That's right, he traveled [E] like I said.
He [Dm] was known [F#m] in the house of the
Didn't get [A] caught, didn't get whooped
[D] till the police shot [C] him down.
[C] Now this boy went down to the spring one [F] day
to get a [C] pail of water.
The [B] distance that Boone had to go
[D] could have been more than two miles
[G] and the dog gone caught.
[C] Got back out his water, but when he started [F] back
he knew that he [D#] stumbled and he fell down.
Ran to the house, got another bucket
and caught [Am] the water for a [C] dusting.
He was a traveling man.
Certainly was a traveling man.
He was, he [A] wasn't?
[D] Uh-huh, that's right.
Yeah, he traveled.
[C] Everywhere, he [F] was known,
many miles around.
Didn't get [A] caught, didn't get whooped
[B] till the police shot him down.
Now you all heard about the Titanic ship
in Union Grove, [F] North Carolina.
[C] He was on it when it was going down.
He was [A] standing out by the port [Am] side.
[C] His head hung down.
When a boy jumped [G] overboard,
everybody said Boone [C] was a fool.
About two minutes [A] right after that
he was [G] shooting dice at Liverpool.
[A] He was a traveling [C] man.
[F] Certainly was a traveling man.
[B] [A] Yeah, he traveled.
[D] Really?
[B] Yeah, he [C] traveled everywhere.
[F] Known for making [B] miles around,
but didn't get caught ever.
Got [F#m] whooped till the police [C] shot him down.
Listen, the police shot him with a [F] rifle.
A bullet [C] went through his head.
People, they were coming from miles [D] around
to see if Boone was [G] really dead.
They [C] telegrammed way down southwest, Momma [F] lived.
She was [C] carried away, upset with [F] tears.
[F#m] Walked up, opened up the coffins,
lit with [A] the food, and disappeared.
[C] He was a traveling man.
Certainly was a traveling man.
The boy [A] traveled.
Mmmmm.
[C] He traveled everywhere.
He [F] was known for making miles around,
but he didn't get [A] caught
and he never got whooped
[G] until the police [Am] shot him down.
The [C] police finally caught the traveling [F] man
They had him up to hang [C] one day.
The [A] jury man all asked,
[D] what did he have to [F#] say?
[Em] He begged the jury man
to bow their [F] heads,
bow their [C] heads in [F] prayer.
He crossed one leg and he winked an [D] eye
and went up to [A#] the
[D] [F#] [A] [C]
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Old man in Spartanburg, South Carolina, which isn't too far from here.
And his name was Pink Anderson.
Don't go speaking to old lads, that's been dead for years.
_ [F#] _
He died [G] in 1974.
[D] _ _ [C] He made his first records in [F#] 1927 or 28,
recorded with [G] Columbia Records.
Made two records, that's four songs in [E] those days.
_ [G] _ Let's play that to the young people. Shh.
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ [N] Pink did a lot of novelty tunes.
He was a funny fellow.
He worked his whole life in medicine shows,
and that would be the comfortable town like _ _ _ _ _ _ Union Grove. _ _ _
_ _ _ Pink would walk around town playing his guitar,
attracting a crowd.
They called it dragging the streets.
He'd pull a crowd down to the end of the street
where there was a flatbed truck made of stage.
And then he'd jump up there and his buddy Peg Leg Sam
would jump up there and Pink would be playing
and Peg would be dancing on the peg.
That was a big attraction.
Lotus harmonica.
And then the doctor or the Indian chief
would come out and sell the patent medicine,
guaranteed you anything you might have
or might get in the near future.
[G] _ [D] Just like today, you can't [F] get it from your doctor.
Don't go to your pharmacist, send $29.90.
[G] And they made a lot of money, those guys.
[F#] The last medicine show went out in the spring of 1970,
I think it was.
Pink Anderson [E] and Peg Leg Sam, they had it [A] arranged.
They thought Pink [D#] wasn't working anymore
because he was [D] a little sickly.
[Gm] But [E] Peg Leg Sam was still at it
and still could [Gm] shake a leg pretty [D] good.
_ Just walking. _
[C] _ [F#] And he had arranged that [A] I was going to go [G] out
and see Thunder Cloud's medicine show.
[D] And then I got a [G] call during the winter that said it's off.
The [F#] chief's heart attacked him and he's dead.
So I might have had something to talk about.
[G#m] _ [D#] Here's a song Pink used to do.
_ _ [C] I just want to tell you about a man named [F] Boone.
His home was [C] down in Tennessee.
Now Boone made [A] his living stealing [Am] chickens.
And anything he could [C] see.
The Popeye [C] man run so fast
[F] his feet never [F#] did stay in the road.
The freight [A] train passed him,
it didn't matter [E] how fast Boone would get on board.
He was a traveling man.
That's what [F] they said.
He certainly [C] was a traveling man.
You know [A] Boone was the most [D] traveledest man
that ever was in [G] that land?
[C] Yeah, he traveled everywhere.
[F] He was known [F#m] in the house of [C] the_
Didn't get caught, didn't get [D] whooped
till the [C] police shot him down.
[Cm] Police, [C] high motor mobiles,
the purpose is to chase old Boone.
[B] They was chasing him [A] from six o'clock in the morning
till [G] half past seven in the [C] afternoon.
The Popeye man run so [F] fast
that fire didn't come from his [E] heels.
He burned [A] the cotton, he scorched the corn,
he might as well have [Bm] drove to the farmer's [C] field.
They called him a traveling man.
[F] Certainly was [C] a traveling man.
[A] Boone was the most traveledest man.
[F#m] _ _ [G] That's right, he traveled [E] like I said.
He [Dm] was known [F#m] in the house of the_
Didn't get [A] caught, didn't get whooped
[D] till the police shot [C] him down.
_ _ [C] Now this boy went down to the spring one [F] day
to get a [C] pail of water.
The [B] distance that Boone had to go
[D] could have been more than two miles
[G] and the dog gone caught.
[C] Got back out his water, but when he started [F] back
he knew that he [D#] stumbled and he fell down.
Ran to the house, got another bucket
and caught [Am] the water for a [C] dusting.
He was a traveling man.
Certainly was a traveling man.
He was, he [A] wasn't?
[D] Uh-huh, that's right.
Yeah, he traveled.
_ [C] Everywhere, he [F] was known,
many miles around.
Didn't get [A] caught, didn't get whooped
[B] till the police shot him down.
Now you all heard about the Titanic ship
in Union Grove, [F] North Carolina.
[C] He was on it when it was going down.
He was [A] standing out by the port [Am] side.
[C] His head hung down.
When a boy jumped [G] overboard,
everybody said Boone [C] was a fool.
About two minutes [A] right after that
he was [G] shooting dice at Liverpool.
[A] He was a traveling [C] man.
_ [F] Certainly was a traveling man.
_ [B] [A] Yeah, he traveled.
[D] Really?
[B] Yeah, he [C] traveled everywhere.
[F] Known for making [B] miles around,
but didn't get caught ever.
Got [F#m] whooped till the police [C] shot him down.
Listen, the police shot him with a [F] rifle.
A bullet [C] went through his head.
People, they were coming from miles [D] around
to see if Boone was [G] really dead.
They [C] telegrammed way down southwest, Momma [F] lived.
She was [C] carried away, upset with [F] tears.
[F#m] Walked up, opened up the coffins,
lit with [A] the food, and disappeared.
[C] He was a traveling man. _ _
Certainly was a traveling man.
The boy [A] traveled.
_ Mmmmm.
[C] He traveled everywhere.
He [F] was known for making miles around,
but he didn't get [A] caught
and he never got whooped
[G] until the police [Am] shot him down.
The [C] police finally caught the traveling [F] man
They had him up to hang [C] one day.
The [A] jury man all asked,
[D] what did he have to [F#] say?
[Em] He begged the jury man
to bow their [F] heads,
bow their [C] heads in [F] prayer.
He crossed one leg and he winked an [D] eye
and went up to [A#] the_
_ [D] _ _ [F#] _ _ [A] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
And his name was Pink Anderson.
Don't go speaking to old lads, that's been dead for years.
_ [F#] _
He died [G] in 1974.
[D] _ _ [C] He made his first records in [F#] 1927 or 28,
recorded with [G] Columbia Records.
Made two records, that's four songs in [E] those days.
_ [G] _ Let's play that to the young people. Shh.
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ [N] Pink did a lot of novelty tunes.
He was a funny fellow.
He worked his whole life in medicine shows,
and that would be the comfortable town like _ _ _ _ _ _ Union Grove. _ _ _
_ _ _ Pink would walk around town playing his guitar,
attracting a crowd.
They called it dragging the streets.
He'd pull a crowd down to the end of the street
where there was a flatbed truck made of stage.
And then he'd jump up there and his buddy Peg Leg Sam
would jump up there and Pink would be playing
and Peg would be dancing on the peg.
That was a big attraction.
Lotus harmonica.
And then the doctor or the Indian chief
would come out and sell the patent medicine,
guaranteed you anything you might have
or might get in the near future.
[G] _ [D] Just like today, you can't [F] get it from your doctor.
Don't go to your pharmacist, send $29.90.
[G] And they made a lot of money, those guys.
[F#] The last medicine show went out in the spring of 1970,
I think it was.
Pink Anderson [E] and Peg Leg Sam, they had it [A] arranged.
They thought Pink [D#] wasn't working anymore
because he was [D] a little sickly.
[Gm] But [E] Peg Leg Sam was still at it
and still could [Gm] shake a leg pretty [D] good.
_ Just walking. _
[C] _ [F#] And he had arranged that [A] I was going to go [G] out
and see Thunder Cloud's medicine show.
[D] And then I got a [G] call during the winter that said it's off.
The [F#] chief's heart attacked him and he's dead.
So I might have had something to talk about.
[G#m] _ [D#] Here's a song Pink used to do.
_ _ [C] I just want to tell you about a man named [F] Boone.
His home was [C] down in Tennessee.
Now Boone made [A] his living stealing [Am] chickens.
And anything he could [C] see.
The Popeye [C] man run so fast
[F] his feet never [F#] did stay in the road.
The freight [A] train passed him,
it didn't matter [E] how fast Boone would get on board.
He was a traveling man.
That's what [F] they said.
He certainly [C] was a traveling man.
You know [A] Boone was the most [D] traveledest man
that ever was in [G] that land?
[C] Yeah, he traveled everywhere.
[F] He was known [F#m] in the house of [C] the_
Didn't get caught, didn't get [D] whooped
till the [C] police shot him down.
[Cm] Police, [C] high motor mobiles,
the purpose is to chase old Boone.
[B] They was chasing him [A] from six o'clock in the morning
till [G] half past seven in the [C] afternoon.
The Popeye man run so [F] fast
that fire didn't come from his [E] heels.
He burned [A] the cotton, he scorched the corn,
he might as well have [Bm] drove to the farmer's [C] field.
They called him a traveling man.
[F] Certainly was [C] a traveling man.
[A] Boone was the most traveledest man.
[F#m] _ _ [G] That's right, he traveled [E] like I said.
He [Dm] was known [F#m] in the house of the_
Didn't get [A] caught, didn't get whooped
[D] till the police shot [C] him down.
_ _ [C] Now this boy went down to the spring one [F] day
to get a [C] pail of water.
The [B] distance that Boone had to go
[D] could have been more than two miles
[G] and the dog gone caught.
[C] Got back out his water, but when he started [F] back
he knew that he [D#] stumbled and he fell down.
Ran to the house, got another bucket
and caught [Am] the water for a [C] dusting.
He was a traveling man.
Certainly was a traveling man.
He was, he [A] wasn't?
[D] Uh-huh, that's right.
Yeah, he traveled.
_ [C] Everywhere, he [F] was known,
many miles around.
Didn't get [A] caught, didn't get whooped
[B] till the police shot him down.
Now you all heard about the Titanic ship
in Union Grove, [F] North Carolina.
[C] He was on it when it was going down.
He was [A] standing out by the port [Am] side.
[C] His head hung down.
When a boy jumped [G] overboard,
everybody said Boone [C] was a fool.
About two minutes [A] right after that
he was [G] shooting dice at Liverpool.
[A] He was a traveling [C] man.
_ [F] Certainly was a traveling man.
_ [B] [A] Yeah, he traveled.
[D] Really?
[B] Yeah, he [C] traveled everywhere.
[F] Known for making [B] miles around,
but didn't get caught ever.
Got [F#m] whooped till the police [C] shot him down.
Listen, the police shot him with a [F] rifle.
A bullet [C] went through his head.
People, they were coming from miles [D] around
to see if Boone was [G] really dead.
They [C] telegrammed way down southwest, Momma [F] lived.
She was [C] carried away, upset with [F] tears.
[F#m] Walked up, opened up the coffins,
lit with [A] the food, and disappeared.
[C] He was a traveling man. _ _
Certainly was a traveling man.
The boy [A] traveled.
_ Mmmmm.
[C] He traveled everywhere.
He [F] was known for making miles around,
but he didn't get [A] caught
and he never got whooped
[G] until the police [Am] shot him down.
The [C] police finally caught the traveling [F] man
They had him up to hang [C] one day.
The [A] jury man all asked,
[D] what did he have to [F#] say?
[Em] He begged the jury man
to bow their [F] heads,
bow their [C] heads in [F] prayer.
He crossed one leg and he winked an [D] eye
and went up to [A#] the_
_ [D] _ _ [F#] _ _ [A] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _