Chords for Art Garfunkel - Brian Wilson Tribute - 12/26/2007

[Bb] _ _ _ [Eb] _ [G] Ladies and gentlemen, [Eb]
Art [Fm] Garfunkel. _ _ _ _ _
_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [N] _ _ _ I love rock and roll.
_ It's just so joyous and life-affirming.
And this is a great moment for me _ to honor my colleague, a fountainhead of that joy, Brian Wilson.
To me, rock and roll is our great American invention.
_ And the fact that you, Brian, are one of its architects _ makes me proud _ of who we are as a country.
_ When I heard Good Vibrations for the first time on the radio, I called Paul immediately and I said,
I think I just heard the greatest, _ _ most creative record of them all.
Brian showed us all the endless possibilities in what's been recorded
and how it can be layered and combined or subtracted to create something both.
Certainly came from his California roots, which to me has always represented the promise and sweetness in America.
_ He gave us the most lovely chords that are shaded and illustrative of the lyric.
And since he was able to achieve that with a sense of fun, _ with that joyousness, _ he became our Mozart of rock and roll.
_ _ _ This is Brian's everlasting _ legacy, not just to rock and roll, but to music itself.
_ Bless you, Brian Wilson. _
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_ _ [G] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ Brian [G] wasn't [Dm] born a beach boy. _
[G] _ _ [Bm] He grew [Gm] up miles away [A] in the suburbs of [Gm] Southern California.
_ _ _ [Am] His childhood [G] bruised by a domineering [Gm] [Am] father, _ Brian [G] found [Dm] refuge in music.
_ [Bm] In [Dm] church, he sang [G] soprano.
[Eb] _ _ It's [C] a blue _ [Em] _ _ world.
[D] He [Db] loved the harmonies of the [Eb] four freshmen. _
Just let me hear some of these old ways.
He [Ab] wondered, could he combine [Eb] them? _ _
_ _ If everybody [Bb] had a dozen _ [Bbm] across the [Eb] USA. _ _
[Db] His band started [Bb] as a family affair.
[Gb] Two brothers, [Eb] a cousin and friend.
You see them wearing [Ab] their _ baggies.
We're Archie [Eb] Santos too.
_ [D] _ _ Little [Bm] _ sister, [D] _ [G] _ _ little [A] _ one.
New [Gbm] songs for a new [D] generation.
_ [Am] _ [G] Conceived, composed and [Gm] arranged by Brian Wilson.
[D] _ _ _ _
[Bm] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ [D] _ [Db] Brian _
_ [Ab] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Db] _ _ _ embraced every note.
[Gb] _ _ He said, I wanted every sound to be perfect.
[Bbm] _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Dbm] _ The Beach Boys became a phenomenon.
[Ab] _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ But for [Dbm] Brian, the screens were drowning out [Ebm] the music.
_ _ [B] _ _ _
_ _ _ The record company wanted more hits.
[Dbm] _ [Gb] He needed to follow the music where it led him.
_ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Into _ [Abm] _ _
the [Dbm] possibilities of sound.
_ [A] _ Al, here's how I want to [C] do it.
[Gbm] First beat on the last bar of the intro.
You go boom, two, [D] three, four, ba-ba.
_ [Gbm] Here we go, come on.
_ _ [F] _ _
Wouldn't it be nice if we were older?
He had [Bb] an uncanny gift for harmonic invention.
[E] A [F] conductor at the console.
[Ab]
Here we go, sneak up the junk beat.
_ Horse up the junk beat, horse up the junk beat.
See how it makes sense, see how it makes sense.
_ [Eb] _ His teenage symphony [Bm] inspired other rock musicians to [E] retire. _ _
_ [A] The _ Beatles [Db] answered his album with one of [A] their own. _ _ _
_ [Gm] Or was too [C] much.
_ His [F] spirit grew fragile.
_ Depression pulled him under.
_ _ [Eb] _ He _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Em] fell away from the music.
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[Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Gm] _ _ I'm going to [C] take this [D] opportunity right [Am] now to thank our beloved Brian
[N] for writing all that beautiful music and making this evening [D] possible.
Let's hear it for Brian [A] Wilson.
_ _ _ _ He [Gbm] _ _ _ [E] _ _ [D] _ _ _
[Gbm] _ _ _ [Bm] hoped his gifts [Em] had survived the [A] lost years.
_ [Dbm] A long abandoned project [D] called him back to the stage and his music. _
[Ab] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Db]
I've been in this town so long that back in the city I've been chasing.
Forty years after his first hit, _ [Eb] his music still casts a spell.
He fell [Ab] in love years ago with an innocent girl from the Spanish and Indian home of the hero [Db] Tanner Turner.
[Dbm] _ _ [E] _ _ _
An [Gbm] artist for his time and its music.
[Dbm]
He is rock and [A] roll's gentlest revolutionary. _ _
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