Chords for Emmylou Harris - 2015 Official Announcement
Tempo:
62.525 bpm
Chords used:
C
E
G
D
A
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[C] [Dm] [C] [F] [C]
[G] [C]
I figure [Gb] we're in a country, [F] so all records are country records.
[D] Her career as [C] a solo artist began in [Eb] earnest in 1975.
[Bb]
[F] [Bb] [E]
She's collaborated [A] with Graham Parsons, Bob [E] Dylan, [B] Joan Baez, Chris Christopherson, [E] Johnny
Cash and [A] countless others.
That's a good part of [Abm] recording is being [E] able to [B] get together with friends, [E] make new friends
and sometimes bring in old friends on [D] a project and [E] get a chance [D] to enjoy their [Bb] talents and
also their [Bb] company.
[Eb] [Bb]
[Bm] With her 29th album, she stepped forward [A] as a songwriter.
You know, you [D] think you know the song and you do know the song, but then something else
is [B] happening and you're not even conscious of it, but it affects what you're doing vocally
[Em] because it's affecting you emotionally.
It's a combination of those two things.
Music is a joyful, [Bm] very emotional [Dbm] thing.
The thing that makes it good is that [E] at the end [A] of it all, you get to get up on stage
with some great musicians [E] and play music that you really love.
[Gm] The Polar Music Prize 2015 is awarded to the artist, Emmylou Harris from Birmingham, Alabama.
No one in the history of popular music has [Gbm] harmonized like Emmylou Harris.
[E] For five decades, she's embellished [A] other artists' recordings by adding vocal [E] parts
that did not exist in the melodies.
But it's as an [A] artist in her own right that she has made the greatest [Ab] contribution.
The music of Emmylou Harris contains the history and topography of the entire American continent.
Her voice follows the [Fm] contours of the American landscape, from the [Db] highest peaks to the endless [G] prairie.
Weather, soil, and color, [D] it can all be [G] perceived in her music.
As she sings, in one of [C] the best of her own compositions, she is [G] a red dirt girl from
a red [D] dirt town.
[C] [G] Emmylou Harris has also used [F] her position as a [G] musician to work for feminism, animal
rights, and the [D] care of people [C] affected by war.
[G] Emmylou Harris makes the world bigger and smaller, more valuable, and more beautiful.
[C] [G]
[D] [Em] [D] [C] [G]
[G] [C]
I figure [Gb] we're in a country, [F] so all records are country records.
[D] Her career as [C] a solo artist began in [Eb] earnest in 1975.
[Bb]
[F] [Bb] [E]
She's collaborated [A] with Graham Parsons, Bob [E] Dylan, [B] Joan Baez, Chris Christopherson, [E] Johnny
Cash and [A] countless others.
That's a good part of [Abm] recording is being [E] able to [B] get together with friends, [E] make new friends
and sometimes bring in old friends on [D] a project and [E] get a chance [D] to enjoy their [Bb] talents and
also their [Bb] company.
[Eb] [Bb]
[Bm] With her 29th album, she stepped forward [A] as a songwriter.
You know, you [D] think you know the song and you do know the song, but then something else
is [B] happening and you're not even conscious of it, but it affects what you're doing vocally
[Em] because it's affecting you emotionally.
It's a combination of those two things.
Music is a joyful, [Bm] very emotional [Dbm] thing.
The thing that makes it good is that [E] at the end [A] of it all, you get to get up on stage
with some great musicians [E] and play music that you really love.
[Gm] The Polar Music Prize 2015 is awarded to the artist, Emmylou Harris from Birmingham, Alabama.
No one in the history of popular music has [Gbm] harmonized like Emmylou Harris.
[E] For five decades, she's embellished [A] other artists' recordings by adding vocal [E] parts
that did not exist in the melodies.
But it's as an [A] artist in her own right that she has made the greatest [Ab] contribution.
The music of Emmylou Harris contains the history and topography of the entire American continent.
Her voice follows the [Fm] contours of the American landscape, from the [Db] highest peaks to the endless [G] prairie.
Weather, soil, and color, [D] it can all be [G] perceived in her music.
As she sings, in one of [C] the best of her own compositions, she is [G] a red dirt girl from
a red [D] dirt town.
[C] [G] Emmylou Harris has also used [F] her position as a [G] musician to work for feminism, animal
rights, and the [D] care of people [C] affected by war.
[G] Emmylou Harris makes the world bigger and smaller, more valuable, and more beautiful.
[C] [G]
[D] [Em] [D] [C] [G]
Key:
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[C] _ [Dm] _ [C] _ _ _ [F] _ _ [C] _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ I figure [Gb] we're in a country, [F] so all records are country records.
[D] Her career as [C] a solo artist began in [Eb] earnest in 1975.
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [E] _
She's collaborated [A] with Graham Parsons, Bob [E] Dylan, [B] Joan Baez, Chris Christopherson, [E] Johnny
Cash and [A] countless others.
That's a good part of [Abm] recording is being [E] able to [B] get together with friends, [E] make new friends
and sometimes bring in old friends on [D] a project and [E] get a chance [D] to enjoy their [Bb] talents and
also their [Bb] company.
_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
[Bm] With her 29th album, she stepped forward [A] as a songwriter.
You know, you [D] think you know the song and you do know the song, but then something else
is [B] happening and you're not even conscious of it, but it affects what you're doing vocally
[Em] because it's affecting you emotionally.
It's a combination of those two things.
Music is a joyful, [Bm] very emotional [Dbm] thing.
The thing that makes it good is that [E] at the end [A] of it all, you get to get up on stage
with some great musicians [E] and play music that you really love.
[Gm] The Polar Music Prize 2015 is awarded to the artist, Emmylou Harris from Birmingham, Alabama.
No one in the history of popular music has [Gbm] harmonized like Emmylou Harris.
[E] For five decades, she's embellished [A] other artists' recordings by adding vocal [E] parts
that did not exist in the melodies.
But it's as an [A] artist in her own right that she has made the greatest [Ab] contribution.
The music of Emmylou Harris contains the history and topography of the entire American continent.
Her voice follows the [Fm] contours of the American landscape, from the [Db] highest peaks to the endless [G] prairie.
Weather, soil, and color, [D] it can all be [G] perceived in her music.
As she sings, in one of [C] the best of her own compositions, she is [G] a red dirt girl from
a red [D] dirt town. _
_ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ Emmylou Harris has also used [F] her position as a [G] musician to work for feminism, animal
rights, and the [D] care of people [C] affected by war.
[G] Emmylou Harris makes the world bigger and smaller, more valuable, and more beautiful.
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
[D] _ [Em] _ [D] _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ I figure [Gb] we're in a country, [F] so all records are country records.
[D] Her career as [C] a solo artist began in [Eb] earnest in 1975.
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [E] _
She's collaborated [A] with Graham Parsons, Bob [E] Dylan, [B] Joan Baez, Chris Christopherson, [E] Johnny
Cash and [A] countless others.
That's a good part of [Abm] recording is being [E] able to [B] get together with friends, [E] make new friends
and sometimes bring in old friends on [D] a project and [E] get a chance [D] to enjoy their [Bb] talents and
also their [Bb] company.
_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
[Bm] With her 29th album, she stepped forward [A] as a songwriter.
You know, you [D] think you know the song and you do know the song, but then something else
is [B] happening and you're not even conscious of it, but it affects what you're doing vocally
[Em] because it's affecting you emotionally.
It's a combination of those two things.
Music is a joyful, [Bm] very emotional [Dbm] thing.
The thing that makes it good is that [E] at the end [A] of it all, you get to get up on stage
with some great musicians [E] and play music that you really love.
[Gm] The Polar Music Prize 2015 is awarded to the artist, Emmylou Harris from Birmingham, Alabama.
No one in the history of popular music has [Gbm] harmonized like Emmylou Harris.
[E] For five decades, she's embellished [A] other artists' recordings by adding vocal [E] parts
that did not exist in the melodies.
But it's as an [A] artist in her own right that she has made the greatest [Ab] contribution.
The music of Emmylou Harris contains the history and topography of the entire American continent.
Her voice follows the [Fm] contours of the American landscape, from the [Db] highest peaks to the endless [G] prairie.
Weather, soil, and color, [D] it can all be [G] perceived in her music.
As she sings, in one of [C] the best of her own compositions, she is [G] a red dirt girl from
a red [D] dirt town. _
_ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ Emmylou Harris has also used [F] her position as a [G] musician to work for feminism, animal
rights, and the [D] care of people [C] affected by war.
[G] Emmylou Harris makes the world bigger and smaller, more valuable, and more beautiful.
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
[D] _ [Em] _ [D] _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ _
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