On The Radio
by:  John Hartford & The Hartford Stringband
Good Old Boys Album
Chords tabbed by:  Verne Garrison
May 25, 2010
Banjo tuned E, Capo 3, Key of C



On The Radio            
Chorus:                                                                                   
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When I was growin up, you couldn't get much music on the radio
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Had to listen all day, to get a few tunes that I liked
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Didn't have no tape to remember, what I heard on the -- radio

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Well I played it late at night and I listened to the 
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radio                                                                          


F                            C
I could hear the banjo a pickin and a hummin, on the radio---

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And shakin was a shakin, and static clickin away

F                C
And I setting real close to listen to what I'm gettin on the
   radio--
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Well I played late at night, and listen on the radio

Instrumental:

Couldn't do homework or go to sleep, listenin on the radio--
So I turned it down low and liked it way off late at night
Just so much stuff to be messin up my mind, on the radio--
Well alright, late at night, I'd listen on the radio--

Instrumental:

Now someday I may be pickin and strummin on the radio
A puffin and a hummin, and puffin and hummin all day
Your mamma says, don't to those bands on the radio
Well, alright, way late at night, I'd be listenen on the radio

Now the first time I heard Earl Scruggs, on the radio
Fell out of bed and messed up the four walls
For the next five years, my ear glued to the radio
Just hopin I'd hear that banjo pickin on the radio

Instrumental:

Now Saturday night in the truck on the hill, with the radio
Snow on the ground, with the Opry coming in clear
Listen hard for Flatt and Scruggs, or Bill Monroe
And KXOK would knock them out, on the radio

Seemed like commercials come in loud, on the radio
Then Billy Martin would play, and static would come in clear
You could just hear enough, coming clear on the radio
Afraid you'd miss a single note picked, on the radio

Chorus:

Tag: Well, alright, I'd listen all night, on the radio