Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - On The Road Again Chords

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_ Do you know actually how long me and you been together? _
Yeah, put a close around about 33 years.
It's a long time to be with a man
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_ _ _ [A] _ [Em] I ever tell you about the first guitar
_ [G#m] So it's all lived across the street in front of me had a good [E] time
So it's that city for dollar quarter Mickey.
_ _ I didn't have a dollar quarter
And I said I'd give him 50 cents down on he [C#m] let me have a good time
Do you know I was three years paying him for that guitar?
He threatened [A] to take it back so many times
_ [Em] _ [C#m] [E] I
Know the first time I got paid was my father my mom
And I [A] wait the whole week for that quarter [E] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ [E] _ _
_ a lot of things that [Em] happened to me
Yeah, you don't tell people about the real [A] don't know
[E] _ Well, I never get though.
I
Think about this thing a whole lot of time
_ So we saw we're going to the student bar and give us some cold cuts.
Oh
I follow man think we got take some out no paper
_ Yeah, well you could see and I couldn't run what we gonna take so we drove up to this gas station
Brian tooth is home man.
Come out.
Brian said fill him up.
He looked _ I don't sell no black gas
_ [G] _ [E] You didn't even have no black water thing yet dark was coach and he didn't tell them
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started the car _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Only road again save your tears for me mama.
Thank you
_ _ Please _
_ [Bm] don't [E] cry _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ drink all that liquor by pint, you know, I was like, hey if you break head you told me say
Well, let me get my way so you don't see what you drink we'll get drunk then coming down the streets
Then _ _ man you walk for me and I'll see for you
_ But you know when I first met [G] you sir, I [A] didn't I didn't [E] think you had a handicap
Yeah, but you cross the highways and by ways and everything.
I didn't realize that I really didn't know until we got in _ _ _
Maybe _ nobody would either put me but I remember the time you couldn't chicken with tag on _ _ _ _ _
_ I ain't going down _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ Telling me I always want to write about that about the man winning you out of some money you played for him for a long time
[Em] That guy who got a call [E] donkey so medicine Oh, you won't pay him for three dollars a week, you know and he
bought four weeks in the hole
_ He _ didn't pay me that
Man, I got need for money.
Give me my money
Not me on the table. _
He knocked on the table.
I come out with a lady.
You know, I had that _ _
Yeah, I don't feel white face.
I could see good but I could see the white panty head on and I just shot red _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ The _ _ _ lady
Didn't come out that's when Woody had called us the streamlined singer.
Yeah
_ $15 all we could get for the three of us _ Josh was
Yeah, and we first come to be our Josh and let's see
_ We'll run over and let that it die
Yeah, we don't think look he died _ 1949
_ [G] Who [E] are some of the other people you've made records with I mean, you know, I pick them up now what champion Jack Dupree?
They champ Jack Dupree big bill _ _ Lightning up _ _ You know
_ _ _ _ We _ _ did _ _ the thing with Memphis slim to blues in general, yeah
_ Yeah, Don Lee hooker.
Yeah, Donny.
Go shake it.
Jay _ _ _
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Oh Whoa, yeah _ _ _ _
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know, I'm just sitting here thinking about some of the musicians people don't even know about we play with the bird
_ Remember the concert we have it down the old in _ Canada _
_ _ We did _ good with BB King
_ _ What _ _ over him he became when did you first meet Todd Todd
_ _ _ Early _ _ _ 60s
_ _ Can he remember we got the contract in New York about red gold and I come and ask you who's can he
_ _ I wouldn't know we went to the agency.
What's this can he don't have man.
We don't do the can he used to be a drink _ _ _ _ _ _
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