Chords for David Crosby Talks About His Impressive Acoustic Guitar Collection…and the One That Got Away

See, the thing about the guitar is, an acoustic guitar, _ _ pick it up [E] _ _ _ _
[C#] and [G] _ it brings magic.
It makes you want to play.
_ _ The key [N] role of this thing, the reason that you want a great one, is because _ _ it's such
a joy to play that then you wind up playing for hours, _ which is [Em] how you get good. _ _ _ _ _
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I had thought, because my dad was in movies, that I would try to get an acting job.
I thought that would be fun and girls [G] liked it.
Truthfully, as soon as I started playing live, _ that was it.
I _ wanted a Martin.
I wanted a DAT.
I think America should be very proud of Martin.
Martin's a stunning guitar company and they make, [C] today, _ [G] still the best guitars in the
world that are production [A#] made.
[Em] Martin's it.
Martin's the world standard.
Always has been.
To this [D#] day, _ can sell you a higher quality guitar than anybody else in the world [N] for
a commercially made guitar.
Nobody can touch them.
They're astounding. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ And when I was in Chicago working at Mother Blues or Old Town North, those places, _ I took
the money I made _ _ _ and I found a DAT in a shop way out in the suburbs.
I was thrilled with it.
It was a really good 50s lightweight [D] DAT.
And it's what became that 12 string over there. _ _ _ _ _ _
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It's just two out of 12.
It's really loud. _ _
[N] They built these _ DATs back then lighter. _
_ _ _ Before they decided they had to make all [Bm] their guitars last 100 years.
_ _ [N] So it was a lighter weight guitar.
Then I shaved the braces a little bit and then it got converted into 12 string.
But they made it into a 12 fret [G] 12 string, _ which turns out to be part of the success story.
That's why this goes up here, because you have to move the bridge [N] back to make it a 12 fret. _ _
_ So the bridge is in a different place in the bracing than a 12 fret than it is in a 14 fret.
That's one of the reasons the thing sounds as good as it does.
The other is it has a spectacular top on it.
But _ _ _ that's a whole other thing.
The cross grain ripple in the tops [G] is _ _ _ one of the main reasons that you can, one of the
main ways you can tell what [A] a great piece of top wood is.
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[A] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ I started singing in Harmony when I was about six, they tell me.
My very first job in a coffee house, I was actually the busboy.
And I worked for free in order to be able to sing Harmony with the guy who had the job
of singing to the customers.
It's the only reason I got through high school was the choir.
_ Every once in a while we'd get all in tune and the whole room would lift [A#] up and get magic
for a minute.
_ [Em] A _ _ _ _ _ _ kid named Jack Wiltz, I think was his name, showed me [N] _ the _ _ EBADGAD, the E-B-D-G-A-D tuning.
And I just went crazy.
That's what I wrote Guinevere in, that's what I wrote Deja Vu in.
That one's like this.
[E] I don't know if _
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_ you can hear it.
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[D] _ [Gm] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ -B-D [Em]-G-A-D.
_ That's the same one for Deja Vu.
Yeah.
_ _ [G] _ I remember trading a 1939 Herringbone Retinol.
_ _ Stunner.
_ [N] For _ _ Substance. _ _ _ _ _
_ It's one of those things I've got to live with.
I'll regret it for the rest of my life, but there it was.
I did it. _ _ _
_ That's how it was. _ _ _ _
You know, artists have for a long time said, oh, it's the turmoil in my life that I get
this _ _ inspiration from.
Bullshit.
That's just an excuse for them having their lives in complete tatters. _ _ _
I get mine from being happy. _ _
That's really the only excuse, the only thing I can tell you about how I feel these days
and why I'm writing so much these days is that I'm a happy guy. _ _ _ _ _ _
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If you look at this _ _ here and here and here, you can see just how much playing has gone on here.
_ I think the finish is worn off the back of the neck. _ _ _
This guitar [A] has thousands of hours of love in it. _
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_ _ [F#] And they're pretty amazing sounding.
It's got dead strings on it, but they're pretty amazing sounding.
[Em] And they play, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
play disruptions. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [N] It's _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ hopeless.
If you ask me about dates and stuff, it's not going to work.
I am _ 192 years old, _ _ and I can't remember which year what happened.