You Better Get It While You Can (The Ballad Of Carl Martin) Akkorde von 
Steve Goodman 
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Tonart: A major•
Verse 1
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I remember when I
met Carl Martin
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It must have been a dozen years ago
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This wise old gent was grey and bent
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But his eyes had a fiery glow
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He was born April Fool's
Day of 1906
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Near Big Stone Gap, VA
He could play a little fiddle
And some blues guitar that
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he'd picked up along the way
But, Jethro,
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once he put his hands on the mandolin
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He lit up just like a Christmas tree
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Along with Ted Bogan and Howard
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Armstrong
They were the best string
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band I ever did see
Verse 2
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Now for fifty odd years
they played rent parties
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Road houses, concerts and festivals too
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At the drop of a hat these
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Would play you every song they knew
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It was "Lady Be Good" and
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And "The Ice Cream
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Now, they'd trot the oldest
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And make every one sound
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And the little white boys
with their shiny guitars
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Would follow right along at their heels
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They learned all the words
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and they learned all the chords
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But they never did learn how it feels
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Now one night I asked Carl
where he got the fire
And he said, 'Steve,
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you've got to understand
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If you want to be someone,
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you better have some fun
And you better get it while you can.'
Verse 3
said:
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You better get it while you can
You better get it while you can
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If you wait too long, it'll all be gone
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And you'll be sorry then
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It doesn't matter if you're
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rich or poor
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And it's the same for a woman or a man
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From the cradle to the crypt
So you better get it while
you can
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Verse 4
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Carl always had a way to make the
good times roll
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He'd just pick out the prettiest
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And then he'd sing every
song to her
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Now, one night back East
when the gig was done
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There was an all night blow- out jam
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Until the sun came up again
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It was blues and ballads, Ragtime,
Dixieland, Swing,
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Some old time show tunes
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And then Carl Martin sang
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some songs nobody else knew
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And some I haven't heard since then
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But right before dawn he did
two more songs
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Just to separate the strong
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It was a red- hot rendition
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And a double- time version of 'The
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Saints'
(With the mandolin behind his head)
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And when he was done those
of us who could still breathe
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Took off our hats to that man
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Carl had played everybody under the
And he said,
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'You better get it while you can'
Verse 5
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You better get it while you can
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You better get it while you can
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If you wait too long, it'll all be gone
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And you'll be sorry then
you're rich or poor
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And it's the same for a woman or a man
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From the cradle to the crypt
So you better get it while
you can
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Verse 6
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You know Carl and his buddies
never got too far
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When he died Martin didn't have a dime
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He was a little behind in his payments
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And a little bit ahead of his time
Last week some so- called
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musicians
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Stayed up real late and burned one down
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The li quor kept coming,
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so we kept strumming
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Til a minute or two before dawn
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There were those who stayed
and those who faded
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But soon I was left all alone
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Now I don't believe in ghosts
- but I could swear
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I heard Carl Martin singing
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one more song
Verse 7
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You better get it while you can
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And you'll be sorry then
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It doesn't matter if you're
rich or poor
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And it's the same for a woman or a man
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From the cradle to the crypt
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So you better get it while you can
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You better get it while you can
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