Chords for Ricky Skaggs And Friends

_ _ This is one of my favorite parts of the show when we get to kind of chat and talk about
Influences and people that we've all you know
Grown up to listen to and learn licks from and all kind of stuff like that.
How come everybody's always looking at me _
_ You're the elder statesman, that's right.
We're paying honor to you tonight
You _ _ _ deserve [Ab] it [N] James
_ You say you're 24 24, let's see I'm trying to think who you must have started listening to you guys actually we
You know, we on the road last year.
We did not want to do a
tribute to the people that were influential and raising my
Musical skills [Abm] and I thought I'd [Gbm] do one of [G] them _
If I could find a love treasure with [C] this heart and [G] with these hands
_ [D] _ Asma found a
[C] _
[G] Shifting say if I could show just what I'm made of it'd [C] be surprised what [G] I can do
But I [D] need someone to help
[Bm] _ [C] [G] Let it be you let it be _ you
[C] Makes me [G] in the morning.
Let it [D] be you
[C] Who lays down with [G] me tonight side by side
_ We can dream together.
Let it [D] come true
[G] Let it be
_ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Crazy
_ _ _ Crazy
My mom and daddy kill me for telling this but I was in the seventh grade my birthday's December 17th
So, you know, it's always a hectic week around Christmas and one year they my parents slipped their mind.
It was my birthday and
And you know, it wasn't that big a deal.
But the day after that was a big deal
They got upset and so they took me out and said get whatever you want
Turn me loose in the stores, you know _ _
So I'm in the seventh grade and I walk in and what I buy but a Gene Watson greatest hits out
_ [E] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [D] _ _
[G] Buddy _ [Dbm] _ _ [G] sing us one.
Well, here's one should I come home? _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ Make up [D] your mind if [G] you love me
Then think it all over
_ [Am] Make up your _ [D] mind
[G] I'll lose _ mine Yes, sir _ _
_ That's good, [N] _ _ _ thank you so much
Gene I've got a special request
[Ab] _ I don't want to put you on the spot
But I love a song you had was a huge hit one of the greatest country songs
I ever heard and my buddy Lloyd Green took the most awesome steel guitar break on it in the world
It was farewell party.
Would you sing just a little bit of that?
_ _ [E] _
_ _ _ When _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ My lips are as cold as [B] the sea
_ _ _ [E] When my friends gather round
_ [A] For my [E] farewell party [B] Won't you?
pretend
_ _ [E] You love me Keep going
Gee there'll [A] be flowers From those
[E] Who cry _ _ go and leave you in this?
world [B] alone _
_ _ _ I [E] know
You'll have fun [A] At my
[E] Farewell party.
_ [B] I know _
You'll be glad _ [E] when I'm gone
Can you get it?
I [B] know _
You'll be glad
_ _ [A] [B] The _
[Am] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _
_ _ _ great gene Watson,