Chet Atkins – Ode To Mel Bay (Guitar)

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Mel Bay, in your manual, you taught us how to hold a pick

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You got to hold it in this manner, to play them fancy licks

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Now we're happily strummin along, and you ought to hear us play

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And I guess we owe it all to you, thanks a lot, Mel Bay

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Mel Bay, Mel Bay, we just wanna say

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We wouldn't know what we're doin, if you hadn't shown the way

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Mel Bay, Mel Bay, everytime we play, 

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we're always thinking of you, and hope you have a nice day

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On page 21, you showed us how to play a G

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On page 22, you showed us how to play a D

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But Lawdy, oh lawdy, we never learned to play an E, 

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cause someone in the outhouse, stole page 23

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I'm goin down to Goodins, to buy me a ukelele

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I wanna learn to play Gershin, on the uke-le-le

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I just bought your book, Mel Bay, on how to play the fiddle

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I can play, on that high string, and those two in the middle

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Mel Bay, Mel Bay, we just wanna say

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We wouldn't know what we're doin, if you hadn't shown the way

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Mel Bay, Mel Bay, everytime we play, 

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we're always thinking of you, Mel Bay, and hope you have a nice day

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We're available for dances, that wouldn't be a task

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and ready to sign autographs, if anyone should ask

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You know we're gettin better, than we ever thought we could

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Please send us another book and we'll play twice as good

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Mel Bay, Mel Bay, we just wanna say

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We wouldn't know what we're doin, if you hadn't shown the way

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Mel Bay, Mel Bay, everytime we play, 

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we always thinking of you and hope you have a nice day