Chords for CHICAGO - The Peter Cetera Years

[Bb] _ _ _ 21 top 40 hits, 5 straight number one albums, sold out tours, Grammy awards.
But after a decade of success, _ they were shocked by the death of their lead guitarist, Terry Kath.
_ _ Management and record company changes meant they faced new challenges in the 80s.
_ And then they came back stronger than ever. _
In fact, according to chart statistics, Chicago is one of the most successful American rock
groups of the [B] past 35 years. _ _ _ _
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_ Our _ _ [Db] _ [Abm] _ _
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[B] _ _ _ _ first _ number one hit in the world. _ _ _ _
I'm [Gb] doing my [Abm] pool, San Fernando Valley.
I'm [Gb] just sort of, here's a leaf here and there.
And I go, hey, racket back with the ball of wax.
KHJ, and here comes a breaker for you on [Gbm] KHJ. _ _ _ _ _
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[Gb] And it's a true story.
[B] By hand to God.
_ I'm going, Jacqueline, this _ McCartney's got a [Em] song out.
[Gb] This sounds [E] familiar.
She goes, you stupid fool.
You were down at the session or whatever.
It's if you leave me now.
She's thinking this could be a hit.
When [Abm] if you leave me now came out. _ _
[E] That song was [Gb] so popular _ _ [B]
for such a long period _ [Bbm] that we _ [Eb] came [F] with more ballads.
I mean, you want to follow up on that kind of that type of success.
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_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Eb] Another [Bb]
gold single that Jimmy [F] Panko wrote, Just You and Me. _ _
[Eb] And I said to Jimmy, I says, is this any [F] good?
Just forget about it.
[Cm] I do remember we had an enormous fight [Eb] and I sat at the piano and [Ab] _
_ _ this song [F] started just _ pouring out of [Bbm] me. _ _
You _ _ _ _ [Gb] are my love.
And _ the lyrics happened.
[Ab] The [B] idea.
_ [Bbm] I just sat there and I started singing this song and playing it.
[B] And I ran in and [Gb] I grabbed my girlfriend.
I [F] said, you got to come on here and listen to this.
We got to fight more [Bbm] often.
This is incredible.
_ [Gb] You can do it live.
And it's fun for the [Eb] audience because they get to if [E] they come to a show, [A] they can see it.
The side of the band that they don't hear on [D] radio [Bb] or on TV.
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[C] _ _ [Bb] _ _ Everything _ [Eb] _
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_ _ _ [Gm] was in balance [Eb]
and maybe [C] our mental capacities [Eb] _
were on the road, just _ playing and then moving here and doing this.
[C] Going to Europe and coming back [F] and doing another album and writing songs.
[A] _ You know, I mean, _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] whirlwind. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [F] They come to our Chicago concert and they [C] walk out with a smile.
We've done our job.
You believe in you [Eb]
and I know you [Bb] believe in me.
Oh [F] _ yeah.
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[Bb] _ [F] Oh yeah.
_ _ [C] _
_ Now we realize.
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Oh [F] yes.
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Oh [F] _ yeah.
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_ _ _ _ [F] Peter Cetera is one of the [Dm] finest singers in the world.
_ [C] Mr.
McCartney, [A] _
you are too.
[Am] But I'd say [G] if I ranked singers in the top five, Peter would be right up there. _
_ [C] _ I know we really tried.
_ [Eb] It was about a relationship [Bb] as well that _ _ the relationship among the people of the band can also kind of be correlated _ with the song at the [Em] same time.
About that time I [Eb] said, _ _ _ _ you know, [Dbm] _ _ [G]
[Abm] Terry would have said it this way.
[Db] We on a record and it's going to sell a million.
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Wrong old great saxophone breath.
I [N] think to a certain degree, the band _ _ _ has been _ swayed by the comfort of our personal lives, our [Cm] comfort in our personal lives and _ [Eb] _ just what's easy to do.
We come up with an uptempo song that we thought was going to [Db] be a hit or at least in [Bbm] our minds, [Eb] we got a chance to do it.
And _ [Bbm] people wouldn't play that because [Ab] they said it didn't sound like Chicago.
The first time I heard that, I went, [Eb] _ _
_ _ you're [Gb] kidding, aren't you? _
_ What do you mean it doesn't sound like Chicago? _
_ [B] And then I [Gb] realized that they had decided _ _ what we sound like.
_ And that's the way it was going to be.
Unfortunately, along the way, Peter decided that he wasn't happy and we wished him well. _
And, you know, he [Db] just he wanted to try the solo thing.
And Lord knows, I [Gb] can understand it now.
I was real mad about that.
We all were, [C] you know, it was you know, here was another link to [D] the band.
And this was a band that, you [A] know, that's do us part [G] type thing.
[A] We're [E] determined to make to break [G] new ground. _
She's this [D] young buck come along named Jason Chef.
Man, he's got a [Dm] marvelous voice.
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_ _ _ [F] _ _ [Gm] I'm _ _ [C] _ [Dm] saying
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[Gm] saying
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[Dm] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] saying [Gm] I'm I'm I'm
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