The Carter Family – Itll Aggravate Your Soul (Guitar)

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Released: 20 Feb 1967 Album: The Carter Family Sings the Country Album Note: * after chord means strike chord once and mute strings. Specific in this song is that after the C chord is played the G note is played. Same for the D chord. Play the A note after the D chord. Same for the E chord. Play the B note after the E chord. Same for the F chord. Play the C note after the F chord. Capo: No [Intro] C C/G C C/G
C              C/G
This is a story,

       C            C/G
It was written by A P Carter,

    C                  C/G
And this is the way he lived it,

    C                 C/G
And this is the way he sung it.
C C/G [Verse 1]
    C         C/G         C            C/G
Now all young people take warning from me,

      F                     C
Don't take no girl to Tennessee,

    F                      C
For if you get married and don't agree,

      G7             C     D
It'll aggravate your soul.
[Verse 2]
D
We left Maces early in the night,

  G                             D
Expect to get married before daylight,

   G                       D
So many things happened to hinder our flight,

   A7            D    D/A  D  D/A
It aggravated my soul.
[Verse 3]
     D            D/A        D    D7/A
We arrived in the Bristol at 11 o'clock,

    G                             D
The parson was there right on the spot,

   G                          D
We found that the license had been forgot,

   A7            D    E
It aggravated my sou--oul.
[Verse 4]
   E                                E7
We went for the license in an automobile,

A                            E
Run so fast couldn't see the wheel,

   A                   E
No one can explain how bad I did feel,

   B7            E    E
It aggravated my soul.
[Verse 5]
   E                                 E7
We stayed all night at The Bristol Hotel,

A                                E
Just to make folks think we were swell,

     A                          E
Next morning they put it in the Bristol Herald,

   B7            E    F
It aggravated my soul.
[Verse 6]
    F                             F7
She wants a new coat and a hobble skirt,

        Bb                                   F
And you can't get in for the young gun's and dirt,

    Bb                    F
And when she gets out, oh how she will flirt,

      C7             F    F
It'll aggravate your soul.
[Verse 7]
    F                                 F7
Now when the person gather round your head,

       Bb                                 F
You'll think of what your dear old mother said,

       Bb                   F
With a pain in you back and heart and head,

      C7             F
It'll aggravate your soul.
[Outro] F