Chords for Drake Milligan | My Opry Debut

_ _ Hi there, Mr.
Jim.
How are you?
I am well, Drake.
Welcome, welcome, welcome.
Thank you.
I'm Drake Milligan and this is my Opry debut.
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_ [G] Hey!
Hey!
[A] That's pretty cool. _
_ _ _ [B] You all right?
You don't start [A] crying yet.
_ We've got a long day [D] ahead of us.
A long day.
Proudest I've been is him [A] becoming an artist of his own.
People [E] always told him [Dm] what to play and what not [A] to play.
He stood by his guns and he wants to be a traditionalist.
This is [E] the mecca of all [B] traditionalists, the Grand Ole Opry.
_ _ [D] _ [Bm] _ [A] I'm from just south Fort Worth, Mansfield, [D] Texas.
My dad runs a scrap yard.
My mom is a [Am] veterinarian.
I grew up with their music, really, which was country [B] music.
George Jones, [Em] Merle Haggard.
Big fan of western swing.
My dad's [A] a big Bob Wills [E] fan.
I grew up around all that.
[G] Leaning my truck, giddy pushing, aiding, picking you up.
And later maybe getting one kiss and going half crazy.
[C] Sounds like [G] something I do.
[Em] My new album, Dallas Fort Worth, it was really a culmination of these 14 songs
that [A] I've written over the past five years in Nashville.
[B] And Sounds Like Something I Do was actually some of the most fun I've ever had in a writing [Eb] room.
I wrote it with Terry McBride [D] and Brett Beavers.
[G] And I brought in that idea that one day and I said,
all right guys, I want to write a [A] barn burner.
And we got in the chorus, it has this really fast paced line.
And [G] I ain't the kind to settle down and [D] let myself get wrapped around somebody's finger.
But [G] if I had you, baby, [D] sounds like [F] something I'd [C] do.
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I _ [G] _ was a senior in high school and [Gbm] I found out about open call auditions for Sun [C] Records on CMT,
a show that was going to tell the Sam Phillips story
and [Ab] show the lives of Elvis and Johnny [Gb] Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins,
the [G] Million Dollar Quartet.
And within a couple weeks I got the call that I had the [Am] part on that [C] show.
I really got into this CMT series called Sun Records [D] because I played with [C] Elvis.
I was fascinated [G] how that all came to be, the Million Dollar Quartet and stuff.
And then I said, hey man, if you ever decide you [C] want to make some records, let me know.
Tony Brown, I've been a [D] big fan of for a long time.
He played keys with [G] Elvis back in the days and also produced just a [C] million amazing country records,
impactful country [D] records.
And then he brought in Brandon Hood to work with me.
I think [C] there's like an authenticity of Drake.
[D] He's so well-rounded, whether it's like, you know, he's pulling [C] from so many old school things,
you know, all the [D] 90s country that he and I both grew up loving and listening to
and that we were just [C] raised on.
And so when [D] we wrote, it was, you know, immediate [C] connection.
I didn't expect to write every song on this [D] record.
I definitely didn't expect to.
But I think it was just a process for me of [C] finding my own sound and finding unique sounds.
And the [D] songwriting community here in Nashville is just the best.
Everybody [C] that's in this kid's team is top-notch, and [D] that's what he's going to bring to country music.
[C] Country music better watch [G] out because it's fixing to be torn apart.
It's coming big.
Stay too long at the honky-tonk, spend too much just to tie [C] one on.
Little less right and a lot more wrong, sounds [G] like something I do.
I mean, I [Gb] was producing Patty Loveless when she played the Opry the first time.
And I was producing Vince Gill when he got in the Opry.
And so I know how important that is.
If anybody deserves to be on the Opry, legitimate reason, Drake Milligan does.
I've had the pleasure of writing with Bill Anderson a few times.
And I [Em] called him this week and asked him, hey, do you have any advice for me?
[G] And he said, the only thing I can tell you is what Minnie Pearl used to tell everybody.
He said, you just go out there and love them, and they'll love you right back.
So I'm going to take that with me out on stage tonight.
We have an [D] artist stepping into that circle [N] for the very first time.
Please welcome Drake Milligan.
_ _ _ Hello, [E] Grand Ole Opry.
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _
Having my Opry debut is really a [Dm] milestone for me.
[G] Coming here today, it's kind of, you see the stage, you see the circle,
you see all the huge names, all my heroes that have played here.
You can feel the energy here.
[C] You can feel the [G] reverence.
You can feel the history.
[D] _
[Em] And to now be a part of that is [G] really special.
Ain't [Em] like me to want [C] somebody rearranging [D] all my want to.
[G] I ain't the kind to settle down and let myself be wrapped around somebody's finger.
But if I [C] had you, [G] baby, [D] sounds like something [F] I'd do.
_ _ [G] Well, it's great to have you here, and we hope to have you back.
Thank you, sir.
I hope to be back as soon as possible. [D] Thank you.
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Well, _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
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thank [A] you all very much.
Drake Milligan, everyone, making his Grand Ole Opry [G] debut. _ _ _ _ _ _
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