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[E] [B] [N] Thank you very much.
I tell you what, we've had a real good time.
This really is, I guess this is about my tenth appearance here, I think, isn't it?
I get a jacket.
Do what?
I get a jacket?
I get a jacket.
Oh, really?
Oh, you think, well Larry, will you sign it for me?
Would you make it out to the high Steve Bay bidder?
[F#]
[Em] [N] Larry Gross, MountainStage.org is where you find us online.
You can also find us on your public radio station.
One of our guests on today's show is an old friend of mine, and really I say that often, [Gm] but this is, Ray and I have known each other for, [E] gosh, almost 45 years, I guess.
Ray Wiley Hubbard, right here, the man, he [G] just made a new record, [E] The Grifters Hymnal.
Yeah.
And here's [Em] what it looks like.
Looks like an old hymnal, [E] doesn't it?
It does.
It looks like that.
[D#] It doesn't sound like it on the inside, [E] exactly.
Well, it's got some kind of low down rock grooves on it and bluesy stuff and some folk stuff on it. Yeah, roots.
What I do.
[D] Roots is your thing.
[F#] Yeah, you know a lot of people really come out, when they bring out a new album, everybody says, well, this is [Em] the best one I've done, right?
And I won't say this is the best record I've done.
I'll say this is the best record I've ever heard.
I can really appreciate what the Beatles and the Stones and Dylan were trying to do.
Yeah.
[Am] Well, you've always been known for his [E] humility.
Ramona's got a keen sense of humor.
She's got a tattoo down her arm.
It's of a python.
Eating a little mouse, wearing a sailor hat that says Snake Farm.
Snake Farm, [G] it just sounds [E] nasty.
Snake [G] Farm, it pretty much [E] is.
[D] Snake Farm, it's [Em] a reptile house.
Snake Farm.
[E] But [A] [Em] speaking of that, seriously, [E] though, speaking of the Beatles, [Am] on this record [Em] sings Mr.
Richard [E] Starkey, better known as [A] Ringo Starr,
who has become, naturally, [E] as he should be, a fan [C] of Ray [E] Wiley Herbert.
And how did that happen?
How did that connection come about?
Well, when the album Snake Farm came out, I was playing out in Santa Monica,
and a fellow by the name of Brent Carpenter, who does videos for Ringo, bought Snake Farm and burned Ringo a copy.
He didn't even buy him a copy.
He just burned him a copy and gave it to him.
He said, there's this [Em] weird guy in Texas I think you might like.
And he played it, and then Ringo did a thing on his monthly video thing of what he's listening to.
And that month he had to be listening to the Beatles and Dylan and Snake Farm.
And so then the next time we were out there, Brent called me and said, Ringo, we'd like to meet you.
So he was playing the Greek theater.
So Rick Richards, my drummer, and I went out there.
We were just traveling the two of us.
So we went [Bm] out there and met Ringo.
And he [Em] thought it was brilliant because he said he travels with the drummer.
He doesn't travel with the [Am] bass player.
He doesn't travel with the guitar player.
He travels with the [D] drummer.
Oh [Em] yeah, I forgot to mention something.
This is a sing-along.
Really, it really is.
Here [E] goes Snake Farm.
It just sounds nasty.
Snake Farm.
Pretty much is Snake Farm.
It's a reptile house, Snake Farm.
It [A] ain't [Em] [E] exactly Kumbaya, but it [Em] ain't exactly Tom Fax's.
[E] [Em] Help me now.
I said Snake Farm.
It just sounds nasty.
[N] Snake Farm.
Pretty much is Snake Farm.
It's a reptile house, Snake Farm.
[Em] And Lucas [A] is his son who [G] sometimes plays with me.
He's not here because [E] he's in a bowling tournament,
which [Em] is, we know where [E] we stand, [A] versus the bowling tournament.
[E] That's where the future lies, Lucas.
Do not go into music.
Bowling, [A] I would say, is the good alternative.
No, Lucas is great.
He's been on several [Em] times.
Yeah, he has.
And he's old enough now.
It must be fun to play with your son.
It really is, except he asked me, he said, quit introducing him on stage like this.
And I said, Lucas, I heard my son, he said, that deters the ladies.
[D#]
So he's going to change his [E] last name.
The last time, just the last time that he was on, just so you folks will know,
Ray called us over and said, don't tell Lucas we're getting paid for this gig.
Now when I was a young man about 21 years old, y'all, all I wanted was a stripper girlfriend and a gold-topless car.
Be careful of the things you wish for.
You might get them.
There [A] [E] was a nightclub in Dallas, [D]
[E] it's called Mother [D] Blues.
[E] Well, Lightning Hopkins played and Freddie King even paid some dues.
[D] [E] All the dealers and gamblers and young [A] white hipsters [E] all made the scene.
[Em] [E] The girl at the door, she checked her [A] ID's, she [E] was just 16.
[A] [G] It was not a place [E] for law-abiding citizens.
[Em] All right, folks, here it is.
The Grifters' Hymnal.
That's it.
Pick it up, check it out.
And [E] buy it.
If you love Snake, don't burn it, for God's sake, buy it.
If you love Snake Farm, you're going to like this too.
Ray Wiley Hubbard, thanks, man.
[Em] Good to see you again.
Good to see you, Larry, thank you.
Well, now me, I never busted through the [E] gates into the big time as a rock and roll star.
[Em] [E] For 40 years, I just carried around an old gold-top guitar.
But love and fate [Em] are mysterious [E] things in this funky old world.
[Em] [E] It was 23 [Em] years ago, [E] I ended up marrying that Mother [Em] Blues door [A] girl.
We had [G] us a boy, he's [E] 19 years old now, and he's playing guitar.
He ended up [A] with my Les Paul gold [G]-top, yes he [Em] did.
[E] He couldn't be here tonight.
[Em] He had a bowling tournament more important than this.
We ought to get us a morning drive-time radio show.
The [E] last bowling tournament he entered, he won $800.
[Em] So he couldn't be [E] here tonight, but I tell you what, my son Lucas played on my new album.
At times I do get to share the stage with him, I'm very [Em] grateful.
[D] I'm very [E] grateful for Ron and Amon here coming out and wallowing around with me.
I'm grateful that I still write these old songs and I get to travel around and play them for people.
And the people come out and [A] hear me play them.
[Em]
I'm grateful for Mountain [E] Stage and NPR especially.
[Em] Nowhere else they're going to let me do [G] this.
[E] And the [Em] days, the days that I keep my gratitude higher than my expectations, [E] I have really good days.
This is a good day.
[B] [N]
I tell you what, we've had a real good time.
This really is, I guess this is about my tenth appearance here, I think, isn't it?
I get a jacket.
Do what?
I get a jacket?
I get a jacket.
Oh, really?
Oh, you think, well Larry, will you sign it for me?
Would you make it out to the high Steve Bay bidder?
[F#]
[Em] [N] Larry Gross, MountainStage.org is where you find us online.
You can also find us on your public radio station.
One of our guests on today's show is an old friend of mine, and really I say that often, [Gm] but this is, Ray and I have known each other for, [E] gosh, almost 45 years, I guess.
Ray Wiley Hubbard, right here, the man, he [G] just made a new record, [E] The Grifters Hymnal.
Yeah.
And here's [Em] what it looks like.
Looks like an old hymnal, [E] doesn't it?
It does.
It looks like that.
[D#] It doesn't sound like it on the inside, [E] exactly.
Well, it's got some kind of low down rock grooves on it and bluesy stuff and some folk stuff on it. Yeah, roots.
What I do.
[D] Roots is your thing.
[F#] Yeah, you know a lot of people really come out, when they bring out a new album, everybody says, well, this is [Em] the best one I've done, right?
And I won't say this is the best record I've done.
I'll say this is the best record I've ever heard.
I can really appreciate what the Beatles and the Stones and Dylan were trying to do.
Yeah.
[Am] Well, you've always been known for his [E] humility.
Ramona's got a keen sense of humor.
She's got a tattoo down her arm.
It's of a python.
Eating a little mouse, wearing a sailor hat that says Snake Farm.
Snake Farm, [G] it just sounds [E] nasty.
Snake [G] Farm, it pretty much [E] is.
[D] Snake Farm, it's [Em] a reptile house.
Snake Farm.
[E] But [A] [Em] speaking of that, seriously, [E] though, speaking of the Beatles, [Am] on this record [Em] sings Mr.
Richard [E] Starkey, better known as [A] Ringo Starr,
who has become, naturally, [E] as he should be, a fan [C] of Ray [E] Wiley Herbert.
And how did that happen?
How did that connection come about?
Well, when the album Snake Farm came out, I was playing out in Santa Monica,
and a fellow by the name of Brent Carpenter, who does videos for Ringo, bought Snake Farm and burned Ringo a copy.
He didn't even buy him a copy.
He just burned him a copy and gave it to him.
He said, there's this [Em] weird guy in Texas I think you might like.
And he played it, and then Ringo did a thing on his monthly video thing of what he's listening to.
And that month he had to be listening to the Beatles and Dylan and Snake Farm.
And so then the next time we were out there, Brent called me and said, Ringo, we'd like to meet you.
So he was playing the Greek theater.
So Rick Richards, my drummer, and I went out there.
We were just traveling the two of us.
So we went [Bm] out there and met Ringo.
And he [Em] thought it was brilliant because he said he travels with the drummer.
He doesn't travel with the [Am] bass player.
He doesn't travel with the guitar player.
He travels with the [D] drummer.
Oh [Em] yeah, I forgot to mention something.
This is a sing-along.
Really, it really is.
Here [E] goes Snake Farm.
It just sounds nasty.
Snake Farm.
Pretty much is Snake Farm.
It's a reptile house, Snake Farm.
It [A] ain't [Em] [E] exactly Kumbaya, but it [Em] ain't exactly Tom Fax's.
[E] [Em] Help me now.
I said Snake Farm.
It just sounds nasty.
[N] Snake Farm.
Pretty much is Snake Farm.
It's a reptile house, Snake Farm.
[Em] And Lucas [A] is his son who [G] sometimes plays with me.
He's not here because [E] he's in a bowling tournament,
which [Em] is, we know where [E] we stand, [A] versus the bowling tournament.
[E] That's where the future lies, Lucas.
Do not go into music.
Bowling, [A] I would say, is the good alternative.
No, Lucas is great.
He's been on several [Em] times.
Yeah, he has.
And he's old enough now.
It must be fun to play with your son.
It really is, except he asked me, he said, quit introducing him on stage like this.
And I said, Lucas, I heard my son, he said, that deters the ladies.
[D#]
So he's going to change his [E] last name.
The last time, just the last time that he was on, just so you folks will know,
Ray called us over and said, don't tell Lucas we're getting paid for this gig.
Now when I was a young man about 21 years old, y'all, all I wanted was a stripper girlfriend and a gold-topless car.
Be careful of the things you wish for.
You might get them.
There [A] [E] was a nightclub in Dallas, [D]
[E] it's called Mother [D] Blues.
[E] Well, Lightning Hopkins played and Freddie King even paid some dues.
[D] [E] All the dealers and gamblers and young [A] white hipsters [E] all made the scene.
[Em] [E] The girl at the door, she checked her [A] ID's, she [E] was just 16.
[A] [G] It was not a place [E] for law-abiding citizens.
[Em] All right, folks, here it is.
The Grifters' Hymnal.
That's it.
Pick it up, check it out.
And [E] buy it.
If you love Snake, don't burn it, for God's sake, buy it.
If you love Snake Farm, you're going to like this too.
Ray Wiley Hubbard, thanks, man.
[Em] Good to see you again.
Good to see you, Larry, thank you.
Well, now me, I never busted through the [E] gates into the big time as a rock and roll star.
[Em] [E] For 40 years, I just carried around an old gold-top guitar.
But love and fate [Em] are mysterious [E] things in this funky old world.
[Em] [E] It was 23 [Em] years ago, [E] I ended up marrying that Mother [Em] Blues door [A] girl.
We had [G] us a boy, he's [E] 19 years old now, and he's playing guitar.
He ended up [A] with my Les Paul gold [G]-top, yes he [Em] did.
[E] He couldn't be here tonight.
[Em] He had a bowling tournament more important than this.
We ought to get us a morning drive-time radio show.
The [E] last bowling tournament he entered, he won $800.
[Em] So he couldn't be [E] here tonight, but I tell you what, my son Lucas played on my new album.
At times I do get to share the stage with him, I'm very [Em] grateful.
[D] I'm very [E] grateful for Ron and Amon here coming out and wallowing around with me.
I'm grateful that I still write these old songs and I get to travel around and play them for people.
And the people come out and [A] hear me play them.
[Em]
I'm grateful for Mountain [E] Stage and NPR especially.
[Em] Nowhere else they're going to let me do [G] this.
[E] And the [Em] days, the days that I keep my gratitude higher than my expectations, [E] I have really good days.
This is a good day.
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[E] _ [B] _ [N] Thank you very much.
I tell you what, we've had a real good time.
This really is, I guess this is about my tenth appearance here, I think, isn't it?
I get a jacket.
Do what?
I get a jacket?
I get a jacket.
Oh, really?
_ Oh, you think, well Larry, will you sign it for me?
Would you make it out to the high Steve Bay bidder?
_ _ _ [F#] _
_ [Em] _ [N] Larry Gross, MountainStage.org is where you find us online.
You can also find us on your public radio station.
One of our guests on today's show is an old friend of mine, and really I say that often, [Gm] but this is, Ray and I have known each other for, [E] gosh, almost 45 years, I guess.
Ray Wiley Hubbard, right here, the man, he [G] just made a new record, [E] The Grifters Hymnal.
Yeah.
And here's [Em] what it looks like.
Looks like an old hymnal, [E] doesn't it?
It does.
It looks like that.
[D#] It doesn't sound like it on the inside, [E] exactly.
Well, it's got some kind of low down rock grooves on it and bluesy stuff and some folk stuff on it. Yeah, roots.
What I do.
[D] Roots is your thing.
[F#] Yeah, you know a lot of people really come out, when they bring out a new album, everybody says, well, this is [Em] the best one I've done, right?
And I won't say this is the best record I've done.
I'll say this is the best record I've ever heard.
I can really appreciate what the Beatles and the Stones and Dylan were trying to do.
Yeah.
[Am] Well, you've always been known for his [E] humility.
Ramona's got a keen sense of humor.
She's got a tattoo down her arm.
It's of a python.
Eating a little mouse, wearing a sailor hat that says Snake Farm.
Snake Farm, [G] it just sounds [E] nasty.
Snake [G] Farm, it pretty much [E] is.
[D] Snake Farm, it's [Em] a reptile house.
Snake Farm. _
[E] But [A] _ [Em] _ speaking of that, seriously, [E] though, speaking of the Beatles, [Am] on this record [Em] sings Mr.
Richard [E] Starkey, better known as [A] Ringo Starr,
who has become, naturally, [E] as he should be, a fan [C] of Ray [E] Wiley Herbert.
And how did that happen?
How did that connection come about?
Well, when the album Snake Farm came out, I was playing out in Santa Monica,
and a fellow by the name of Brent Carpenter, who does videos for Ringo, bought Snake Farm and burned Ringo a copy.
He didn't even buy him a copy.
He just burned him a copy and gave it to him.
He said, there's this [Em] weird guy in Texas I think you might like.
And he played it, and then Ringo did a thing on his monthly video thing of what he's listening to.
And that month he had to be listening to the Beatles and Dylan and Snake Farm.
And so then the next time we were out there, Brent called me and said, Ringo, we'd like to meet you.
So he was playing the Greek theater.
So Rick Richards, my drummer, and I went out there.
We were just traveling the two of us.
So we went [Bm] out there and met Ringo.
And he [Em] thought it was brilliant because he said he travels with the drummer.
He doesn't travel with the [Am] bass player.
He doesn't travel with the guitar player.
He travels with the [D] drummer.
Oh [Em] yeah, I forgot to mention something.
This is a sing-along.
_ Really, it really is. _
Here [E] goes Snake Farm.
It just sounds nasty.
Snake Farm.
Pretty much is Snake Farm.
It's a reptile house, Snake Farm.
It [A] ain't [Em] [E] exactly Kumbaya, but it [Em] ain't exactly Tom Fax's.
[E] [Em] Help me now.
I said Snake Farm.
It just sounds nasty.
[N] Snake Farm.
Pretty much is Snake Farm.
It's a reptile house, Snake Farm.
[Em] And Lucas [A] is his son who [G] sometimes plays with me.
He's not here because [E] he's in a bowling tournament,
which [Em] is, we know where [E] we stand, [A] versus the bowling tournament.
[E] _ That's where the future lies, Lucas.
Do not go into music.
Bowling, [A] I would say, is the good alternative.
No, Lucas is great.
He's been on several [Em] times.
Yeah, he has.
And he's old enough now.
It must be fun to play with your son.
It really is, except he asked me, he said, quit introducing him on stage like this.
And I said, Lucas, I heard my son, he said, that deters the ladies.
[D#]
So he's going to change his [E] last name.
The last time, just the last time that he was on, just so you folks will know,
Ray called us over and said, don't tell Lucas we're getting paid for this gig.
_ Now when I was a young man about 21 years old, y'all, _ _ all I wanted was a stripper girlfriend and a gold-topless car.
_ Be careful of the things you wish for.
You might get them.
There [A] [E] was a nightclub in Dallas, [D]
[E] it's called Mother [D] Blues.
[E] Well, Lightning Hopkins played and Freddie King even paid some dues.
[D] [E] All the dealers and gamblers and young [A] white hipsters [E] all made the scene.
[Em] [E] The girl at the door, she checked her [A] ID's, she [E] was just 16.
[A] _ [G] It was not a place [E] for law-abiding citizens.
[Em] All right, folks, here it is.
The Grifters' Hymnal.
That's it.
Pick it up, check it out.
And [E] buy it.
If you love Snake, don't burn it, for God's sake, buy it.
If you love Snake Farm, you're going to like this too.
Ray Wiley Hubbard, thanks, man.
[Em] Good to see you again.
Good to see you, Larry, thank you.
Well, now me, I never busted through the [E] gates into the big time as a rock and roll star.
[Em] [E] For 40 years, I just carried around an old gold-top guitar.
_ But love and fate [Em] are mysterious [E] things in this funky old world.
[Em] [E] It was 23 [Em] years ago, [E] I ended up marrying that Mother [Em] Blues door [A] girl.
We had [G] us a boy, he's [E] 19 years old now, and he's playing guitar.
He ended up [A] with my Les Paul gold [G]-top, yes he [Em] did.
[E] He couldn't be here tonight.
_ [Em] He had a bowling tournament more important than this.
We ought to get us a morning drive-time radio show.
The _ [E] last bowling tournament he entered, he won $800. _ _
[Em] So he couldn't be [E] here tonight, but I tell you what, my son Lucas played on my new album.
At times I do get to share the stage with him, I'm very [Em] grateful.
[D] I'm very [E] grateful for Ron and Amon here coming out and wallowing around with me.
I'm grateful that I still write these old songs and I get to travel around and play them for people.
And the people come out and [A] hear me play them.
[Em]
I'm grateful for Mountain [E] Stage and NPR especially.
[Em] Nowhere else they're going to let me do [G] this.
[E] _ And the [Em] days, the days that I keep my gratitude higher than my expectations, [E] I have really good days.
This is a good day.
_ _ _ [B] _ [N] _ _ _
I tell you what, we've had a real good time.
This really is, I guess this is about my tenth appearance here, I think, isn't it?
I get a jacket.
Do what?
I get a jacket?
I get a jacket.
Oh, really?
_ Oh, you think, well Larry, will you sign it for me?
Would you make it out to the high Steve Bay bidder?
_ _ _ [F#] _
_ [Em] _ [N] Larry Gross, MountainStage.org is where you find us online.
You can also find us on your public radio station.
One of our guests on today's show is an old friend of mine, and really I say that often, [Gm] but this is, Ray and I have known each other for, [E] gosh, almost 45 years, I guess.
Ray Wiley Hubbard, right here, the man, he [G] just made a new record, [E] The Grifters Hymnal.
Yeah.
And here's [Em] what it looks like.
Looks like an old hymnal, [E] doesn't it?
It does.
It looks like that.
[D#] It doesn't sound like it on the inside, [E] exactly.
Well, it's got some kind of low down rock grooves on it and bluesy stuff and some folk stuff on it. Yeah, roots.
What I do.
[D] Roots is your thing.
[F#] Yeah, you know a lot of people really come out, when they bring out a new album, everybody says, well, this is [Em] the best one I've done, right?
And I won't say this is the best record I've done.
I'll say this is the best record I've ever heard.
I can really appreciate what the Beatles and the Stones and Dylan were trying to do.
Yeah.
[Am] Well, you've always been known for his [E] humility.
Ramona's got a keen sense of humor.
She's got a tattoo down her arm.
It's of a python.
Eating a little mouse, wearing a sailor hat that says Snake Farm.
Snake Farm, [G] it just sounds [E] nasty.
Snake [G] Farm, it pretty much [E] is.
[D] Snake Farm, it's [Em] a reptile house.
Snake Farm. _
[E] But [A] _ [Em] _ speaking of that, seriously, [E] though, speaking of the Beatles, [Am] on this record [Em] sings Mr.
Richard [E] Starkey, better known as [A] Ringo Starr,
who has become, naturally, [E] as he should be, a fan [C] of Ray [E] Wiley Herbert.
And how did that happen?
How did that connection come about?
Well, when the album Snake Farm came out, I was playing out in Santa Monica,
and a fellow by the name of Brent Carpenter, who does videos for Ringo, bought Snake Farm and burned Ringo a copy.
He didn't even buy him a copy.
He just burned him a copy and gave it to him.
He said, there's this [Em] weird guy in Texas I think you might like.
And he played it, and then Ringo did a thing on his monthly video thing of what he's listening to.
And that month he had to be listening to the Beatles and Dylan and Snake Farm.
And so then the next time we were out there, Brent called me and said, Ringo, we'd like to meet you.
So he was playing the Greek theater.
So Rick Richards, my drummer, and I went out there.
We were just traveling the two of us.
So we went [Bm] out there and met Ringo.
And he [Em] thought it was brilliant because he said he travels with the drummer.
He doesn't travel with the [Am] bass player.
He doesn't travel with the guitar player.
He travels with the [D] drummer.
Oh [Em] yeah, I forgot to mention something.
This is a sing-along.
_ Really, it really is. _
Here [E] goes Snake Farm.
It just sounds nasty.
Snake Farm.
Pretty much is Snake Farm.
It's a reptile house, Snake Farm.
It [A] ain't [Em] [E] exactly Kumbaya, but it [Em] ain't exactly Tom Fax's.
[E] [Em] Help me now.
I said Snake Farm.
It just sounds nasty.
[N] Snake Farm.
Pretty much is Snake Farm.
It's a reptile house, Snake Farm.
[Em] And Lucas [A] is his son who [G] sometimes plays with me.
He's not here because [E] he's in a bowling tournament,
which [Em] is, we know where [E] we stand, [A] versus the bowling tournament.
[E] _ That's where the future lies, Lucas.
Do not go into music.
Bowling, [A] I would say, is the good alternative.
No, Lucas is great.
He's been on several [Em] times.
Yeah, he has.
And he's old enough now.
It must be fun to play with your son.
It really is, except he asked me, he said, quit introducing him on stage like this.
And I said, Lucas, I heard my son, he said, that deters the ladies.
[D#]
So he's going to change his [E] last name.
The last time, just the last time that he was on, just so you folks will know,
Ray called us over and said, don't tell Lucas we're getting paid for this gig.
_ Now when I was a young man about 21 years old, y'all, _ _ all I wanted was a stripper girlfriend and a gold-topless car.
_ Be careful of the things you wish for.
You might get them.
There [A] [E] was a nightclub in Dallas, [D]
[E] it's called Mother [D] Blues.
[E] Well, Lightning Hopkins played and Freddie King even paid some dues.
[D] [E] All the dealers and gamblers and young [A] white hipsters [E] all made the scene.
[Em] [E] The girl at the door, she checked her [A] ID's, she [E] was just 16.
[A] _ [G] It was not a place [E] for law-abiding citizens.
[Em] All right, folks, here it is.
The Grifters' Hymnal.
That's it.
Pick it up, check it out.
And [E] buy it.
If you love Snake, don't burn it, for God's sake, buy it.
If you love Snake Farm, you're going to like this too.
Ray Wiley Hubbard, thanks, man.
[Em] Good to see you again.
Good to see you, Larry, thank you.
Well, now me, I never busted through the [E] gates into the big time as a rock and roll star.
[Em] [E] For 40 years, I just carried around an old gold-top guitar.
_ But love and fate [Em] are mysterious [E] things in this funky old world.
[Em] [E] It was 23 [Em] years ago, [E] I ended up marrying that Mother [Em] Blues door [A] girl.
We had [G] us a boy, he's [E] 19 years old now, and he's playing guitar.
He ended up [A] with my Les Paul gold [G]-top, yes he [Em] did.
[E] He couldn't be here tonight.
_ [Em] He had a bowling tournament more important than this.
We ought to get us a morning drive-time radio show.
The _ [E] last bowling tournament he entered, he won $800. _ _
[Em] So he couldn't be [E] here tonight, but I tell you what, my son Lucas played on my new album.
At times I do get to share the stage with him, I'm very [Em] grateful.
[D] I'm very [E] grateful for Ron and Amon here coming out and wallowing around with me.
I'm grateful that I still write these old songs and I get to travel around and play them for people.
And the people come out and [A] hear me play them.
[Em]
I'm grateful for Mountain [E] Stage and NPR especially.
[Em] Nowhere else they're going to let me do [G] this.
[E] _ And the [Em] days, the days that I keep my gratitude higher than my expectations, [E] I have really good days.
This is a good day.
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