G               Am               C                    D
Uncle Fred, how are you set, for candy bars and ciga- -rettes
Am           C                                 D
Overalls and kerosene, baseball caps and maga- -zines
G               Am             C                            D
Let's all go to Brown's today, don't need a map to find the way
C                    G                    C                D      G
Sit on the porch and smoke a few, there's nothing else I'd rather do

  D                 G                 C                  Am      D
* Tell me 'bout the time you went, to Chuckey school for fifteen cents
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*You saw A.P. and Sara too, heard Mother Maybelle play that tune

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G          Am                  C
Uncle Fred recalls the day, he left the farm and moved a-(D-way
Am
sailed across the (C deep blue sea, Panama to Waiki-(D-ki
   G                   Am            C                             D
** Served his country, did his time, still got the pictures in his mind
   C                   G             C                 D          G
** Scolfield Barracks, Diamond Head, "What a time," he smiled and said

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G              Am        C                      D
Uncle Fred and R.G. too, have a seat and tell a few
Am                   C                                     D
Been working on that car today, it's out of gas and by the way
G                    Am             C                       D
Just whittle on that stick a while, every now and then he'd smile
C                  G             C              D       G
Calloused hands, a pocket knife, tobacco farmer all his life

G              Am             C                         D
Uncle Fred has passed away, I came to see his grave to- -day
Am               C                                       D     G
"What a time," I smiled and said, still got the pictures in my head

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G D G C G D G
do twice
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do twice