Chords for Opry Backstage - Boxcar Willie interviews Roy Acuff, Bashful Brother Oswald and Charlie Collins

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And now your host this week for Opry [D] Backstage, [C]
Boxcar Willie.
[A] _ _ _ _ [C#] Hi everybody and welcome to Backstage at the Grand Ole Opry.
I'm Boxcar Willie, your host for tonight's show.
Just a moment.
First of all, I want to hang my picture back up here on Mr.
Acup's wall here because _ _ I _ _ _ _ just can't hardly go without my picture being hung on this wall.
_ _ We're going to have a great show tonight.
Charlie Collins will take it down.
Don't worry about it.
We've got the king of country music, Roy Acup, with us and also bashful brother Oswald who's been with Mr.
Acup for 52 years.
I've been hanging around with him.
You've been hanging around with him.
And Charlie Collins over there.
It's been 25 years, Charlie.
And Charlie, this may work into a full-time job.
I understand Oz just got hired yesterday. _ _
Boy, so be it.
If I keep doing the job I've been doing, he might take it back from me.
Also later on in the program, Miss Janet Tyson will have a fanfare report.
And our good buddy Al Winter from Video Morning will be along with John Hartford.
We're going to be talking about some _ steamboats and we're going to close the show with someone who shares my love for train.
But right now it's a pleasure to just sit in the same room with [C] the king of country music and the Smoky [G] Mountain Boys.
King, welcome to Backstage at the Opry.
I shouldn't have that other way around.
You've been here a long time.
Thank you, my friend.
And it's good to be sitting beside a gentleman like you [A] since you've been [D] to Grand Ole Opry.
[D#] _ I've told everybody back through the years, when I first came to the Grand [B] Ole Opry, [A] the Smoky Mountain Boys kind of adopted me.
I said, Roy Acup and the [G] Smoky Mountain Boys, they used to say, hey, come sit in our dressing room.
And there's so many million stories [A] that we could talk about.
But one of them I want to ask you and [G] Oz and Charlie.
_ _ The entertainers of today ride around the big air [D] conditioned buses and four lane highways.
How did you all manage when you had to go [C] on a little two lane road and [D] everybody piled into a car?
You'd be surprised. _ _
_ We didn't mind smelling one another's feet.
Oh, you didn't [Gm] mind smelling one another's feet?
No, I'd try to take your [A] shoes off, go in and [G] get in if you could.
And if you couldn't, I'd just stay out with them, pick you up when we [D] come back.
[D] Well, I understand you did about [A] what, two thirds of the driving?
I possibly did [G] about two thirds of the driving.
_ I usually, we drove two cars [D] most of the time and I drove the lead car.
And I like to [G] broke my neck looking [A] back through the window to see if that back car was still [G] back there.
Now, Box, really, really and truly, we was on winding [D] roads and we hit more at 75 [B] miles an hour than we did.
The people [D#] supposed to drive 55 today, [D] _ we, _ I can remember when there was no speed limit in the state of Tennessee.
That's right, there was no speed limit for a long time.
[G] Just drive careful.
[D] And we did, we were very careful.
At least we got there [A] and did our show [G] and come back.
I [C#] want Oz to show everybody how he got out of driving.
How he got many_ Oz!
_ [E] It was your [D] time to drive.
Look over at the camera and show them what you do.
Well, I drive along.
Benny Martin was riding beside of me and I was trying to get him to drive and he don't drive.
So I [G] shut one eye and I drive along and Benny said, hey, hey boy, you're asleep. _ _ _
_ _ [C] And that's how you got out of driving. _
_ That's when we put him in charge.
And that's when he got hired.
That's exactly right.
When you make Benny Martin drive, you just had it, you were really a boss.
Mr.
Aker, you're [B] such an inspiration [G] to everybody [Am] and to have these [F#] people stay with you for that many years, you know,
I mean, nowadays you see a band and the next week you see them, they got a new bunch.
Well, I don't think anybody else would have my [B] band. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ We got along so good together, the other people couldn't stand.
_ [Em] What's wrong with them?
They don't have no fun.
We had our own fun.
We really lived together.
You know, two of the boys in my [F#] band have been with me for 11 years.
And I think that's Harlan Powell and Chuck Jennings.
And I think that's part of the secret is having fun when you walk out on the stage.
Because I know I watched y'all this afternoon out there during the matinee.
You have a lot of fun when you get out there on the stage.
Well, if I couldn't have fun, I wouldn't be in the business.
I'd quit it.
I want to be on stage and have fun and enjoy it.
That's exactly what I'm doing now.
I enjoy sitting here with you and listen to you kindly bull a little bit.
[B] I don't do that, do I?
You put on [A] a pretty good spread.
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[Am] Charlie, how'd you get the job with the Smoky Mountain Boys, if I might [N] ask?
He had Larry McNeely with him. _ _ _
They come as a set?
_ _ No, Mr.
Roy, Larry came down and played some banjo for Mr.
Roy one night.
So Roy took us both over and put us on the Grand Ole Opry.
_ And he told me, he said, you play a mighty fine guitar, son.
_ _ Maybe you could do good in the music business.
He got me to thinking, and I moved to Nashville. _ _
_ How'd you run on to Oz?
[Bm] Thanks for that. _
_ _ I knew Oz's whole family.
I knew his brother in Knoxville.
His brother was a barber, and I got acquainted with Buddy, his brother.
And through his brother, I became acquainted with Oz.
And his brother, when he introduced me, [A] I found out that he could play this Hawaiian-type guitar.
And I think he still does a great job with it.
They call it dobro, but it's a Hawaiian guitar.
I think he's a master at it, really.
He really is.
They don't come any better.
Oz, [Bm] you told me that you worked at the World's Fair one year?
I worked at the World's Fair, yes, sir.
What'd you do?
I was a fry cook.
_ [E] Now here he is.
He's been with Roy Acob 52 years.
And during the World's Fair, he was a fry cook?
Fry cook, yeah.
What'd you sell?
I sold eggs.
Bacon and eggs.
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_ You had [E] to give that up to find a job here?
I had to give it up.
_ _ _ _ [Bm] _ When I first saw him, he was rolling dough.
Rolling dough?
Yeah, he was working with a [E] bread factory up in Knoxville. _ _ _ _ _
Rolling bread.
You are, without a doubt, one of the most unique, and no, you know, _ legends.
_ Y'all have built a legend, all of you together, you know.
And the Smoky Mountain Boys, you've got your own sound, Mr.
Acob.
You had it for years and years, and it's probably the most imitated [D] sound in country music.
People, _ and I'm guilty of it, [E] of, you know, pattering after you.
[F] I heard you playing out there this afternoon, and it sounded so much like my band,
I just went out and joined in.
[A] _ And that was one of the big thrills.
Mr.
Acob, [E] I'm going to set this down here, and I'm going to pick up my guitar,
and I'm going to get Oz and Charlie.
No, I don't need my guitar.
We're going to do a little song here, one of Hank Williams' old songs called Mansion on the Hill.
Be sure and get your picture when you leave, will you? _ _ _ _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ Oz and I [B] recorded this together.
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_ _ Tonight, _ _ [Bm] [E] down here _ [A] in the valley, _ _ _ _ _ I'm _ lonesome, [D] I know how [A] I feel.
How am I doing?
All right. _
As I sit _ here alone in [D] my cabin, _ [C#] _ _ [D] _
I [A] can see _ [E] your mansion _ [A] on the hill.
_ It's always a lot of fun at the Grand Ole Opry or backstage.
I'm Hank, and [E] this is the Grand Ole Opry.
_ _ And we're going to be back with more with Miss Janet Tyson _ and a Fanfare Report.
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