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Ballad of Jed Clampett
by Earl Scruggs
Key of A, 4/4, capo 2nd

      G       G       A     D       
e|---------------------------------|
B|-------------0---0---------------|
G|-----0---0-0-------0-2---2-------|
D|-0-0-----------------------0-----|
A|---------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------|

     D       D       G       G
e|---------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------|
G|---------0-2---2---0---0---------|
D|-0-4-0-4---------4-------2-0-----|
A|---------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------|

     G       G       C       C#
e|---------------------------------|
B|-----------0---0-0-1---1-1-2-----|
G|---0---0-------------------------|
D|-0-------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------|

     D       D       D       G
e|---------------------------------|
B|-2-3---3-3-3---3-3---------------|
G|---------------------------0-----|
D|-------------------0-2-4-0-------|
A|---------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------|

(Play G for four beats)
(Repeat 2 more times)

Lyrics:
Come 'n' listen to my story 'bout a man named Jed,
a poor mountaineer who barely kept his family fed.
And then one day he was shootin' at some food 
when up from the ground came a bubblin' crude.

Oil, that is, black gold, Texas tea.

Then the next thing you know ol' Jed's a millionaire,
kin folks said it's time to move away from there.
Said California is the place that you oughta be,
so they loaded up their folks and they moved to Beverly

Hills, that is, swimmin' pools, and movie stars.

So now it's time to say good-bye to Jed and all his kin.
They would would like to thank you folks for kindly steppin' in.
Ya'll come back next week to this locality,
to have a heapin' helpin' of their hospitality!

Ya'll come back now ya here?


Earl Scruggs - The Ballad Of Jed Clampett Tab :: indexed at Ultimate Guitar.
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About artist:

Earl Eugene Scruggs (born January 6, 1924) is a musician noted for perfecting and popularizing a 3-finger banjo style (now called Scruggs style) that is a defining characteristic of bluegrass music. Although other musicians had played in 3-finger style before him, Scruggs shot to prominence when he was hired by Bill Monroe to fill the banjo slot in the "Blue Grass Boys". Scruggs built on earlier styles to develop a truly new and readily identifiable style, involving: unprecedented smoothness, syncopation, and uninterrupted flow; a large vocabulary of unique and original licks or clichés; blues and jazz phrases, evident in backup and in solos such as "Foggy Mountain Special;" and an overall coherency and polish that other stylists lacked, which readily inspired imitation by newer generations of banjo pickers.

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