Uploaded August 2016 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago

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Jim's Dad introduced us to Country music in the early 1960's. This is our account of the days when we'd battle it out with him for supremacy of the record player!





When the Old Man played his country songs to me.




Well the old man came to me one saturday morning
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said to me "have I got news for you"
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And then heeeeeee C

put a package on the table C7 F

a record machine like I'd never seen
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well the old man and me we got to sparring
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'Bout the music G

We'd put on the machine G7 C G

So we laid out all our records on the table C C7 F

Most beautiful sight that I'd ever seen. G G7 C




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So I hit him with The Beatles, The Kinks and the Rolling Stones F G C C7 F

He countered with Marty Robbins, Buck Owens and George Jones G7 C F

And I never had a finer time in my life G7

I can state this unreservedly C F

Than when the old man played his country songs to me F G7 C




Than when the old man played his country songs to me F G7 C

Than when the old man played his country songs to me F G7 C




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solo (To the tune from "well the old man came to me etc)
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but if I could have the old man back F G




I'd leave Lennon on the record rack C F

I wouldn't play a single track of mine G7 C

I'd let him pick all the songs F G

sit beside him and I'd sing along - like when C F




the old man played his country songs to me G C
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