Chords for Googoosh CNN Interview

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_ [A] _ [D] She was born [N] Faegei Atashin, but a nickname from her parents, Gagush, is [Eb] how she's known
to [C] fans around the world.
She is a [Db] cultural icon who's been forced to live in silence for more than two decades
since the 1979 Islamic revolution in her [N] homeland of Iran.
In an extraordinary turn of events, [B] Gagush is back on stage [C] singing once again, [Ab] and she
sat down with us for a rare interview.
While [F] politics has kept her silent, hope for the future [Eb] has helped her survive.
She says she owes much of it to her fans who have [A] never forgotten her after all these years.
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I feel that I am going on the stage for the first time in my life.
_ _ Iranian pop diva Gagush has waited more than 20 years for this moment, being able to perform
for her fans.
I don't know how to answer [Eb] this _ _ love and this excitement of people.
_ [Gb] When I see _ [F] people kept loving my songs, my performance, [Gb] I'm [N] trying to keep this love
for them on the stage.
[Bb] Comes [C] from the bottom of my [F] heart. _ _
_ [Gm] _ _ _ _ [Eb] This is historical.
For [E] Americans, it's Elvis Presley, for us, Gagush.
[F] We grew up with her.
We all love [G] her.
Very excited.
And his father just flew in from [Ab] Iran.
Right, and he has no idea, [F] and this is a surprise for [Cm] him.
I _ love_
[F] Ah. _
[D] She says they are tears of gratitude and great sadness.
[E] Before this miraculous return to [Am] the stage, Gagush spent years in seclusion at [Dm] home in Iran.
Islamic law effectively forbids [Am] her from doing what she loves, performing [Bb] and recording her music.
If you tell [Am] someone that you [D] can't sing or can't act or can't [Bb] live with your art for
this long, for this time, huh?
For 20 years, you can't work.
I think [Eb] all of them feel die, _ isn't it?
[A] _ _ But I live.
[E] _
[Gm] Fans around the world, even in Iran, [E] continue to support her, buying her [A] music, watching
her videos [E] and movies.
[A] All the while, Gagush says hers was a quiet, ordinary life, even during [E] such turbulent
times as the war with Iraq [A] in the 1980s.
I was in the center of [Bb] problems, _ bombs and everything. _
[N] And I used to go out, buy fruit, foods and something like that.
I didn't have any special life.
In a move that surprised the silent star, Iranian officials granted her a passport several months ago.
She [Gbm] recorded her first album in [G] 22 years in Canada.
Zoroaster [Bm] is its English name.
My new CD is talking [Gbm] about life in Iran, [Gb] about _ [Bm] soldiers, [F] about not singing, [Gm]
about _ [Eb] life.
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_ [D] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ Three months after the revolution, I went back to my country. _
In that time, everyone used to tell me, they're going to kill you.
_ _ [Bb] _ [N] I didn't have a choice.
_ [Bb]
I must went back.
[B] And I went back and nothing happened to me.
[Bm] _ Today, it is a wiser, spiritual, grateful Gagush who is taking [A] the stage [Eb] once again.
Her tour continues in North America before heading to Europe and the Persian Gulf [Am] next year.
And she will soon begin [Bm] work on a movie with her husband.
When the curtain falls and her work [G] is done, Gagush says [Em] she will return to Iran.
After all [G] this time, she has no regrets, no bitterness, only a deep devotion [G] to her art,
her [Em] fans and people [Gb] back home.
They deserve [Bb] to have freedom, to live how they want to live.
And they choose _ everything they want. _
And I hope everything _ _ [E] for them.
Will you ever perform in Iran, do you think?
I hope so. _ _
[C] What would that mean for you?
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[G] They love to and I love it.
[Am] _ I'm sure. _
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