Chords for Charlie Rich (sun years)

[Bb] _ [B] _ [Gm] _ _ _ Charlie Rich was the last of Sam Phillips' great discoveries.
[Gbm] A moody, introspective man, he had [Eb] been farming with little enthusiasm and even less success.
Probably [Bb] I was playing more jazz than anything else because I had been, since the farming thing fell through, I'd been working some like as a piano bar and those sort of things.
Without his knowledge, Rich's wife took his songs to son where he got a job writing for other artists such as Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis.
Then in late 1959, he wrote a song that would for many years be a signature [F] hit.
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[Bb] _ [F] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ I think I wrote it for Jerry [Ab] Lee.
I think Sam Phillips liked it.
The sound of it was really good.
He said, well, why don't Charlie just go?
I didn't know whether that was just to put down for not doing my song or what, you know.
He would tell you all, _ modestly, modestly, modestly.
I wanted to slap him sometime, but he was a big, handsome [F] man and I was thinking, I'm not kidding.
But I can tell you, when you bring up the name Charlie Rich, I get to preaching.
Lonely Weekends may have been Charlie's one hit for Phillips and he would not achieve stardom until the 1970s.
But his lack of success at Sun [G] never diminished him in Sam's eyes.
Oh, man, he heard all around his head and he saw life from _ _ all angles, sides. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ He left the label after four years.
Of all the artists that he ever recorded, Sam Phillips said Charlie Rich and Howlin' Wolf.
Remained the [F] _ [Eb] man [Gb] because he was never able to [E] keep up with [Bb] the times.
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