Don Messer Story Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[G]He was born in ol' New Bru[D]nswick
In the early part of may nineteen [G]nine
Six years old he played the [C]fiddle
At the barn [G]dance on [D]the old
York county [G]line
Every year Don got [D]better
He dreamed about that fortune
down [G]the track
Then he came down to Saint John [C]City
Where he [G]formed the old New
[D]Brunswick Lumberjack[G]s

[Verse 2]
Don [C]Messer played rings
[G]around the mountain
He played [D]reels all across [G]the plaines
He played all that kind of [C]mu sic
That has [G]made the country
[D]proud to say his [G]name

[Verse 3]
Soon his [G]band would have [D]a singer
Charlie Chamberlain would
join the Messer [G]fleet
And travel to Prince Edward Is[C]land
To play on [G]radio for twelve
[D]bucks [G]everyweek

[Verse 4]
On the [G]air right after [D]supper
Commencing in the year of thirty [G]nine
The man would say
It's old Don [C]Messer and the is[G]landers
form [D]down the Mari[G]times

[Verse 5]
Don [C]Messer played rings
around [G]the mountain
He played [D]reels all across [G]the plaines
He played all that kind of [C]music
That has [G]made the country
[D]proud to say his [G]name

[Verse 6]
Coast [G]to coast with Don and [D]Charlie
Duke Neilson,
Ray Simmonds played it [G]up
Born to gray [C]with sea speackrin
Now the [G]islanders went
[D]touring to [G]the top
How Charlie sang with Margret
[D]Osbourn
And Waldo made the old piano [G]twang
For the queen they played in [C]concert
And it was ma[G]gic how Don
[D]Messer's fiddle ran[G]g

[Verse 7]
Don [C]messer played rings
around the moun[G]tain
He played [D]reels all across [G]the plaines
He played all that kind of [C]music
That has [G]made the country [D]proud
to say his [G]name

[Verse 8]
Seventeen [G]years on televi[D]sion
From nineteen fifty- six to seventy- [G]three
Don messer made his mark [C]forever
The fiddling [G]king of country
mu[D]sic his[G]tory
Through out the world it's undis[D]puted
Don Messer and the islanders were [G]tops
And away down east
beside the [C]ocean
The kind of mu[G]sic they
[D]began will never [G]stop

[Verse 9]
Don [C]Messer played rings
around [G]the mountain
He played [D]reels all across [G]the plaines
He played all that kind of [C]music
That [G]has made the country
[D]proud to say his [G]name
He has made the country [D]proud to say
his [G]name

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