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The Ballad Of Jed Clampett

Words and Music by Paul Henning  - 1962

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G	-	Am	D7
-	-	G	-
-	-	C	C#dim
D7	-	-	G
-	-	-	-            (repeat)

16-beat intro. with 3 lead-in notes. ("Oh come -'n")  Play 4-beats for each cell, reading from left to right.

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Oh come -'n lis -ten to my sto - ry 'bout a man named Jed,

Poor moun - tain - eer, bare - ly kept his fam - 'ly fed.

Then one day, he was shoot - in' at some food,

An' up thru the ground came a bubb - a - lin' crude,

Oil that is! Black Gold! Tex -as Tea!

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

Click here for 5-string tab

 

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