Chords for David Crosby: Sons / Family

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[Ab] _ _ _ [Eb] [Gm] It's been pretty [F] amazing.
[C] James is hitting his stride as a writer [Eb] at a level that I [C] _ _ [G] can't really even believe [D] how
good he is. _ _ _ _ _
When he [G] found out that I was his father, he'd already [D] been a musician for 20 years.
_ _ So it went click.
Oh, _ _ I get it now.
Not only a brilliant keyboard player, but a wonderful composer, with his father standing
next to him proudly.
_ _ _ _ A man who is in fact [G] David Cronin.
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He and _ _ _ _ I _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ have had a very [E] fortunate _ relationship.
Because normally those things where you meet the estranged parent or child, you know, [D] you've
never known _ them at all. _ _ _ _ _
One or both of the people involved brings too much baggage to the _ meeting.
And I was afraid that's what would happen _ when I _ was going to meet James.
And it didn't.
He did an incredibly kind thing.
He _ _ brought no baggage at all and gave me a clean slate.
Gave me a chance to earn my way.
_ That was a great kindness.
But the result was that right away we wrote a song called Morrison, _ _ Vatchin Morrison. _
And the music just stunned me. _
Right away it was really good.
And it's just only been getting better.
Well, you know, we met later in my life, _ [G] not having _ _ spent any time together for my first 30 years.
But once we met, we realized _ that we had two languages that we could communicate in.
_ Music [D] and English. _
_ _ _ So that's always been great.
_ _ _ Once _ I kind of _ _ [Bm] found _ [G] the essence of [E] who he was musically, there was a lot of overlap
with how I [E] think about harmony.
_ _ _ It's like, _ full, _ _ new levels. _
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_ _ [E] I kind of get where he's going.
And _ _ he [Bm] certainly knows where [B] I'm going.
They both have this just wicked [G] sense of harmony.
_ Crosby is really [D] a _ singer-songwriter.
And James is a singer-songwriter, but he's also _ just a musician's musician.
_ I think James definitely pushed Crosby in directions that there's no way he would have
[G] ever gone otherwise, for sure.
But I [D] also think that goes the opposite way.
I think Crosby pushes James in other [Bm] directions.
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James just took Crosby's vision out to the [D] limits, you know.
_ _ _ [G] One example of that is the [C] song Dangerous Night.
Crosby [Am] gave the lyrics to James, [D] _ _ and [F] they're in a really odd form.
[G] It doesn't stick to [Am] verse, chorus, verse, chorus, [D] bridge, chorus.
[F] It's like _
_ _ _ [C] a [G] haiku or something. _
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_ [C] James came up with this really amazing writing that no one [G] else would really think of.
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_ Dangerous Night.
_ I mean, I'm proud of everything on the record.
But that one's exceptional. _
_ _ The fact that they're working together _ as a [Am] father and son, _ _ [F]
especially after [C] not meeting
for 30 years, it's [A] just _ _ [Em] an incredible story.
[Am] It says _ [A] things that James and I both really want to say.
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_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ The cover.
_ _ _ So now, _ don't tell [Am] Django this, okay, because his [A] head is swollen enough [C] already.
_ But he _ _ did take [Am] an amazing picture [F] of me, _ _ _ [G]
which is the cover.
[A] _ And [Em] I'm incredibly proud of it for [A] catching the moment.
He nailed a shot of me that looked so much better than I really do.
[C] I can't.
I'm stunned. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ But, [G] so it's a family project.
It's definitely a family project.
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Even if [G] I dream alone [C] on such a [A] dangerous night, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ somehow [G] I know I'm going [C] to dream again [A] tonight.
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