Chords for Charley Crockett interview for No Fashion Places stories

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I'm somebody who started playing music [E] as an outlet for maybe the [Bm] sorrow I was going through.
I was getting in a lot of trouble when I was [E] younger.
And _ guitar was, [A] I didn't feel like I knew where to go, but when I started playing guitar
that got me, gave me direction.
_ So we used to live in South [Ab] Texas when I was a kid.
And my mama moved up to Dallas.
Yeah, we lived out in the country there near [E] the same town Freddie Fender was born in as
a Tejano _ [Gbm] blues musician from that town.
[E] And she moved up to Dallas and [A] I went to New Orleans to live with my uncle [Ab] and he lived
in the French Quarter in [A] New Orleans.
And that's where I started kind of being around street musicians, playing on the street and stuff.
And so I was playing in parks and then I [E] realized I could start playing on the street corners.
And so I started playing on the street, [B] playing for change, learning songs from the other
bands, [E] drinking songs, traditional New [A] Orleans stuff.
Started dressing up old time because, you know, so I [E] wouldn't scare the [G] tourists off.
You know, you [Em] make more money if you present [Gb] yourself better.
[E] And that got me into traveling, you know, and I started hitchhiking [Bm] and [Em] riding trains,
playing on subway cars in New York City and _ house [Am] parties, you [G] know, street corners [E] all
over the place.
And I [G] just did that for a lot of years, [E] you know, and, you know, you throw out the songs
that don't work and [Gbm] you play the songs that do work, [E] you know.
And so I learned a lot of old jazz, [D] a lot of old blues, a lot of [A] soul music.
[Em] I learned a lot of music off of other travelers, you know.
I did that in Europe too.
I played in the street in Paris.
I learned a lot there.
I really liked it.
It was amazing.
It was fantastic.
It was a better quality of life playing and living on the street there than in New York,
I can tell you that.
But I like the diverse culture.
Yes, of [B] course.
You know, and yeah, [E] it's so diverse.
I met a lot of gypsies, a lot of Africans.
Yeah.
And I like it because it's a big city, but it moves slow compared to New York City or
to like American cities.
Everybody's just go, go, go, go.
France [G] was nice.
It was a little more slow paced.
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And I think people [Em] appreciated, you know, artists on the street a little more.
We're a little more [B] invisible in America, you [F] know, until you get to a certain [E] place.
You know, it's hard to get people's attention.
So the man is the singer, the musician, the artist, the same [D] person?
[E] Yeah.
Well, I'm just standing [G] behind my guitar and I've [Em] always been, I've always just been playing
for change out of a guitar case.
Just a little more politics now.
And I play amplified. _
And [G] I've just been moving to better and better spots.
[Em] You know, the way I, you know, it's the [B] same thing.
Everything [Em] you learn on the street, that's the real place that you [Bm] figure out if you're any good.
[Em] And you learn everything there, you know, and I'm glad that I started there.
I was too rough around the edges to even ever play in a club when I was younger.
But the good thing about [D] playing in the street is [G] you have to work [Em] to get people's attention
because they don't want you to be there.
You know, they're not, they're not coming.
They're not, they're not standing on the waiting for the train to see you, you know, so you
really [C] have to, [G] you got to learn how to, I learned how to talk to people.
I learned how to get their attention, what worked and what didn't, you know, and, [D] and
[Em] that's, you know, [D] I just [E] applied that always.
[Em] It hasn't changed.
You [Bm] know, you just, like I said, it's [E] just more politics.
[Em] _ Yeah.
Well, yeah, [E] yeah, exactly.
You do, you got to get strong and you got [Fm] to get strong, [Em] you know.
_ [D] We love your style.
You're so [Bm] stylish.
Oh, thank you.
Wow.
So are y'all.
But [D] our, we're Italian.
Y'all got style.
I know, exactly.
[E] And you [Ebm] look very different than [Bb] by other American singer [G] and country singer.
So we love your jacket, [Dm] your dress.
[D] Where do you take the [E] inspiration?
_ [Bm] Oh, I [Em] don't know.
Well, I love.
You're very original, very authentic.
But you.
Thank you.
I like old _ vintage clothing because I [Bb] think we [G] make so much clothing today that is coming
off the labor of poor people from all over the world.
I mean, [Gb] Vietnamese people, Africans, all these oppressed people [N] are, were making all this
very cheap clothing that's being thrown away.
Where is your [B] favorite place? _
[Gb] Where do you feel home?
_ _ I feel home on the road.
[G] I like being on the road.
I like even like broke down towns.
I love the desert.
_ Really love the desert.
So [Gb] full of life.
There's so many colors, you know. _
You can create it everything.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I love sleeping out there.
We go out there and sleep in the truck.
Just go sleep out in the truck. _ _
[Ebm] So your music is so [N] powerful.
_ And what do you believe in?
_ _ What do I [B] believe in?
Yeah.
[Gb] Oh, I don't know.
_ [F] _ Well, I think that I love.
I [Bb] believe in music.
[N] I believe in music.
I think that I think it's a universal language.
You know, I think you can understand a culture really well by by its by [Ebm] its folk music.
You know, _ _
[E] I really believe in that.
I'm [Bb] a very spiritual person, but I [G] don't like subscribe to [Am] maybe like an organized [G] religion.
But I believe that, you know, God is something that it's the it's the tie that binds, you know,
it's the [Em] thread that goes through everybody.
[B] So I'm spiritual, but [Db] I try to stay away from a lot of the [D] [Gb] organized religious stuff.
[Gm] You know, _ _ _ [G] I'm very spiritual.
That's why I write music.
I think music is how I deal with life.
You know, we live in a very wild times.
You know, there's a lot of inequality _ _ [Eb] everywhere.
It's hard not to see it all the time.
[G] _ I deal with it through music, I guess.
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[G] _ Thank you so much.
Oh, you're most welcome.
Thank you.
I really appreciate you.
It's wonderful.
I ain't got nobody [N] to