Chords for "Shawn Sahm & The Tex-Mex Experience" EPK (Part One)

[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ Something's [Dm] wrong
_ _ [G] I [A] should keep it to [D] _ _ myself [A] She [G] belongs
_ [D] _ _ _ [Em] _ [A] Belongs [G] to someone [D] _ _ else
[G] _ _
No one will ever know
[E] That I fell hard and so [A] close
I [E] can't live without [D] my _ Texas _ Rose
[A] No _ _ [E] one ever even [D] cares
_ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
I _ [E] can't _ _ _ [D] _
_ live without my Texas Rose
_ [G] _
_ _ _ _ [D] And she'll [A] never know
[G] _ _ [D] _ She'll [A] never _ know
[D] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
More than likely you've had a little Tex-Mex before
But have you ever had a Tex-Mex experience?
[G] Though this experience may not fatten your belly
It will definitely fill your soul
[Abm] _
Why [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ don't you love me like you used to? _ _ _ _
It's easy to see in the faces
In the music, in [G] the mayhem
The Tex-Mex [N] experience just likes to play together
We're friends, we like hanging out
You know, we've all been in bands and stuff
Where you're kind of there because everyone's playing together
[G] And then see you later
All right, baby, come on
Individually, [Em] all are very accomplished musicians
Mikey's [D] played [Em] in Tex-Mex bands
[E] Mooney sings with Flaco Jimenez
Also, George Rain plays with Jimmy Vaughn
And, you know, played with a [Abm] million other people
Me and Neil have played together since we were 16
So we have a [Em] history together
And the [E] Tex-Mex experience melts together [A] so well
Because [B] of history
Rock and [E] roll
And those [G] that brought [Gbm] the texture [Am] to the Tex-Mex sound
[G] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
One of the greatest is guitarist Sean Som's father, Doug Som
[C] Down _ _ at the pool house
[G] Ain't nobody ever heard of him
Who gained fame with their Sir Douglas Quintet
And later with the Texas Tornado _ _ _
Honey, I love this [C] Mexico _ _
Doug _ Som was a _ legendary Texas figure
Who _ [G] basically, in his own way, kind of cultivated
A lot of people helped
But [F] he had this [N] rock and roll, _ hippie mix
With a root sound that became this certain style
Of the Tex-Mex [D] sound _
Doug _ _ _ Som was always a great musician
When he was eight, the grand old Opry wanted him for their shows
But his parents said he was too young
[B] He sat on Hank Williams [Bb] Sr.'s.' knee At the Skyline Club [E] in Austin A few weeks before he [G] passed away And just [F] all this great stuff _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] Sean grew up in Texas and California Following his dad to [Am] gigs [A] They were [Am] always good buddies Which led to Sean making his debut On [D] the cover of Rolling Stone with his dad in 1968 Sean always felt privileged to grow up surrounded by the greats He absorbed as much as he could _ _ [Am] _ When he was [Ab] 13, he joined his dad's band [Am] And was soon writing music [D] for them as well _ [Am] _ Now a [G] number of years [F] and bands later _ [B] _ _ _ [G] Sean set the stage for his latest and possibly [D] most fun venture _ _ The Tex-Mex [G] Experience _ _ [D] _ _ They rehearsed at Sean's [E] home _ _ _ In a [Gbm] sort of museum to [Em] Sean's dad It's hard not to get into the [N] musical group with all the history And even a Grammy award laying around This is probably the first time we've ever played stuff That he was writing that came, I think, straight from his heart And wasn't trying to be [C] anything else And [Abm] it's just really natural And so everything with this band just seems to happen real natural Where in [G] other projects and other styles of music It's been [Em] really difficult _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Yeah, especially [E] the energy thing This [Em] kind of stuff has [B] got a little more of [E] a dance groove Everything's got really_ About everything we do [Abm] is kind of a dance groove somehow _ [Em] And I really like that _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ [Dbm] _
To get that real [E] Tex-Mex sound and dance hall feel [Dbm] The band wanted [E] to feature the _ accordion [Abm] And then everyone's like, man, you know, it's like What are you playing? I'm like, yeah, [N] Squeezebox, you know And after I see Squeezebox, they're like, Squeezebox, what is that? It's like accordion, you know He does what a lot of keyboards and [Abm] guitars would do Like he [E] does a lot of the melodic tags and lines You know, when [Bm] we're doing a [E] little riff He'll be doing little lines over it So he's actually_ The cool [N] thing that Mike's doing is taking the accordion [A] playing In different [N] directions and kind of pushing the boundaries That's what we want to show the new crowd now That it's not a geeky instrument, you know It [G] looks funny, maybe, I don't know But, you know, and this band is_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ Together _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ for a little over a year The Tex-Mex experience opens for the likes of The Los Loli Boys and George Cray We're a new band out proving ourselves, man So for the most part, we're going up cold George makes jokes about, wow, it sounds like You know, they're treating us_ The crowd sounds like we have hits And we don't have any hits yet, we're a new band _ _ _ _ That's the [Db] reaction we've been getting Now when that happens, you know, that makes you go Great, man, we're on to something And they get it And it kind of goes back to like my dad and Flaco And all these guys The crowd's always got it The audience always have wanted real music [E] It's just the audience and people who love the music's agenda Is [A] different than [D] the music business [A] The music business's [Db] agenda is not to groove _ The music business is to make [D] freaking money To market it, it's toothpaste _ [E] _ [A] _ And that's all it is The audience [Eb] _ don't look at it [Am] like, oh, well You know, [Eb] demographically, [D] does this fit? They just know that these guys come up on stage And boom, there it is And the audience just_ I like that, they like it or they [Am] don't _ [G] _ _ _ _ Once we start [Bm] playing, man, [Dm] we're in the zone People are, you know, as soon as we start playing You see they're [D] digging it And [G] so that's the energy we get So we just pull on all the whole show You just don't know what you're gonna get after each song And that's what's cool Because [Em] we'll start with a full-fledged [N] rock and roll tune And then just turn it into like a _ beautiful harmony tune _ _ And then a polka And _ so throwing off the people and the versatility [E] It's amazing to see the people's reactions [Gm] to that When [Em] we break into a song, we [Gm] hit the harmony When we are the Tex-Mex [E] experience in a room or on stage We [Bb] love that I mean, there's [Em] this [E] buzz that goes along with that That when [Bb] we're not doing it, we miss it It's all about [E] the roots And then this new [D] modern version, unique It's a [G] unique style that we have What she's saying about the squeeze box and guitar, you know, rocking out It's something new, it's a little more [Gb] modern and rocking [G] Unique, but it's got our roots Thank [B] you!