Chords for Grand Funk Railroad - I'm Your Captain - MSG 12/23/72
Tempo:
98.65 bpm
Chords used:
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Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [D] _
_ [A] I [D] can't go.
[C] _ [D] If you love [A] me, [D] if you love [A] me,
Lord, am [C] I [D] a little [C] _ [D] lonely?
_ [C] _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ [D] To my own [C] point,
[D] I want to see [A] you. _
_ _ Take me back [C] now,
oh, [D] take me back [C] now,
and [A] you'll know _ _ _ love's another game.
[D] And if [C] _ _ [D] _
_ [C] _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _ _ [D] _
_ [C] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ [Bm] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ _ _ _ you're lying [Bb] on _ heaven's green [Dm] grass,
oh, [Bb] I'll be the [D] skiing grass
_ [Bb] and I'll see you far [F] away from me.
[A]
If _ [Dm] you _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [Dm] _ _ [Bb] _
would [Dm] not love me,
Lord, [Bb] we don't care for what you [F] do with me.
Oh, [A] give me the [D] good _ _ _ news.
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ I'm getting closer [C] to my home.
[Dm] _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ [D] _ I'm getting closer to my home.
_ [C] _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ Getting closer to [C] my _ [E] home. _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ Getting closer _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ to [D] my _ home. _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ For a long time now, [D] Grand Funk Railroad has taken a stand against hard drugs.
We decided to do something about it that would demonstrate our feelings.
In [E] August, we approached Dr.
Mitchell Rosenthal, director of Phoenix House,
with the idea [A] of contributing our total fees from two concerts in the New York area.
[D] When Don, Mel, and I returned to New York,
we visited one of the five Phoenix centers, [G] the one on 116th Street.
We looked around and talked with the people in [D] the program
and sat for a while with Mitch, Frank Natale, clinical [E] program director,
and Barry [E] Francis, director of the house we visited.
[Ab] Here's a brief look at what we saw and heard. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ And so we decided, you know, when [G] we got into [Gb] doing a benefit,
we wanted to do it for something we really believed in, you know, [B] and do it right.
So [Fm] _ [B] that's what we decided to do.
Then we [Ab] wanted to get, [F] find a program that was [B] really successful,
you know, something that really works.
And that's how we came [G] to Phoenix House.
We believe that the [Ab] problems that underlie drug addiction are personal emotional problems.
[G] In other words, it's not the drug that's the problem.
The drug is a symptom of the problem,
and it's only [Abm] by our addressing [Db] ourselves to those underlying problems
and helping [Gb] somebody to really find out about themselves
and about those things that they're afraid of,
about those things that they've run from,
about those things that have angered them
and around which they've done destructive things to themselves.
It's only in getting at those roots that people are going to end up clearing up the problem of addiction.
In most [G] cases, this is the first time that they experience that [Gb] type of relationship with a person
and with a number of people,
where people are talking to you about you, asking you questions about you, _
_ letting you know and sharing with you what hurts, what doesn't hurt,
what you're afraid of, what I'm afraid of.
And it's the first time in most of these people's lives when they're hearing that kind of conversation.
The program here [C] doesn't rely on any other [F] drug.
It's a totally [D] non-drug program.
Drug-free.
Completely drug-free.
No methadone, [F] nothing.
It's hard to get an [E] aspirin in this [Dm] house.
_ _ [N] _
We get a little extreme sometimes.
We say, why do you have to have it?
I think that dispensing _ drugs and allowing a guy who can't make a decision, obviously,
he can't make a decision.
Obviously, he doesn't know what's right for him.
He needs to be told what to do at that point.
He's asking for help.
He's [A] flagging.
He's overdosing, [Eb] shooting needles into his arm, falling all over the place, getting arrested.
[E] And then they call him in and they say, make a mature decision.
Would you like to take methadone?
Would you like a little heroin?
Would you try Darvon?
[N] Or would you like drug-free?
The whole thing is just so absurd.
So I don't think that the people who are trying to assess this thing politically
are going to come up with the answer.
I think it's going to come out of the youth culture itself
and out of an enlightenment in that youth culture that says,
hey, take a look at this.
We've got to stop it.
We've really got to stop the whole internal pollution that's been going on
before it just chokes us all.
That's the message that [F] comes when guys like yourself do a concert _
[F] and make a statement, do something like what you're doing with Phoenix House now.
Because I agree with [B] Mitch.
I think that's where the [E] turnaround is going to come.
And it's going to have to come from youth itself.
People get values that they [A] have about drugs, first of all from their family
and later [Gb] from their friends and then from those other people out there who they look up to.
And [Ab] that's really why your [G] role is so critical,
because young people are [E] looking for people who [Ab] they can believe in,
who seem to be [G] having fun and making it,
and that you can [Gb] be having fun and making it
and be out of hard drugs is really very important.
When they take a look at the situation that this country is in,
and it's not very hard to get out of it.
All you got to do is look around and you see that there's troubles everywhere.
And so they want to get away [Em] from it.
_ _ [E] But like you say, [Bb] _ getting away from it [Eb] isn't going to solve the [F] problem. _ _
[Gb] It's going to take a strong physical body and mental body,
[B] a clean body to overcome the dirt that is here [D] now. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Getting _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ [Em] _ [D] closer, getting closer, _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ [D] _ getting _ closer, _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ getting _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ [D] _ _ _ closer,
_ [A]
not _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ only getting closer, _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Dbm] _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [A] _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [D] _
_ [A] I [D] can't go.
[C] _ [D] If you love [A] me, [D] if you love [A] me,
Lord, am [C] I [D] a little [C] _ [D] lonely?
_ [C] _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ [D] To my own [C] point,
[D] I want to see [A] you. _
_ _ Take me back [C] now,
oh, [D] take me back [C] now,
and [A] you'll know _ _ _ love's another game.
[D] And if [C] _ _ [D] _
_ [C] _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _ _ [D] _
_ [C] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ [Bm] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ _ _ _ you're lying [Bb] on _ heaven's green [Dm] grass,
oh, [Bb] I'll be the [D] skiing grass
_ [Bb] and I'll see you far [F] away from me.
[A]
If _ [Dm] you _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [Dm] _ _ [Bb] _
would [Dm] not love me,
Lord, [Bb] we don't care for what you [F] do with me.
Oh, [A] give me the [D] good _ _ _ news.
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ I'm getting closer [C] to my home.
[Dm] _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ [D] _ I'm getting closer to my home.
_ [C] _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ Getting closer to [C] my _ [E] home. _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ Getting closer _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ to [D] my _ home. _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ For a long time now, [D] Grand Funk Railroad has taken a stand against hard drugs.
We decided to do something about it that would demonstrate our feelings.
In [E] August, we approached Dr.
Mitchell Rosenthal, director of Phoenix House,
with the idea [A] of contributing our total fees from two concerts in the New York area.
[D] When Don, Mel, and I returned to New York,
we visited one of the five Phoenix centers, [G] the one on 116th Street.
We looked around and talked with the people in [D] the program
and sat for a while with Mitch, Frank Natale, clinical [E] program director,
and Barry [E] Francis, director of the house we visited.
[Ab] Here's a brief look at what we saw and heard. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ And so we decided, you know, when [G] we got into [Gb] doing a benefit,
we wanted to do it for something we really believed in, you know, [B] and do it right.
So [Fm] _ [B] that's what we decided to do.
Then we [Ab] wanted to get, [F] find a program that was [B] really successful,
you know, something that really works.
And that's how we came [G] to Phoenix House.
We believe that the [Ab] problems that underlie drug addiction are personal emotional problems.
[G] In other words, it's not the drug that's the problem.
The drug is a symptom of the problem,
and it's only [Abm] by our addressing [Db] ourselves to those underlying problems
and helping [Gb] somebody to really find out about themselves
and about those things that they're afraid of,
about those things that they've run from,
about those things that have angered them
and around which they've done destructive things to themselves.
It's only in getting at those roots that people are going to end up clearing up the problem of addiction.
In most [G] cases, this is the first time that they experience that [Gb] type of relationship with a person
and with a number of people,
where people are talking to you about you, asking you questions about you, _
_ letting you know and sharing with you what hurts, what doesn't hurt,
what you're afraid of, what I'm afraid of.
And it's the first time in most of these people's lives when they're hearing that kind of conversation.
The program here [C] doesn't rely on any other [F] drug.
It's a totally [D] non-drug program.
Drug-free.
Completely drug-free.
No methadone, [F] nothing.
It's hard to get an [E] aspirin in this [Dm] house.
_ _ [N] _
We get a little extreme sometimes.
We say, why do you have to have it?
I think that dispensing _ drugs and allowing a guy who can't make a decision, obviously,
he can't make a decision.
Obviously, he doesn't know what's right for him.
He needs to be told what to do at that point.
He's asking for help.
He's [A] flagging.
He's overdosing, [Eb] shooting needles into his arm, falling all over the place, getting arrested.
[E] And then they call him in and they say, make a mature decision.
Would you like to take methadone?
Would you like a little heroin?
Would you try Darvon?
[N] Or would you like drug-free?
The whole thing is just so absurd.
So I don't think that the people who are trying to assess this thing politically
are going to come up with the answer.
I think it's going to come out of the youth culture itself
and out of an enlightenment in that youth culture that says,
hey, take a look at this.
We've got to stop it.
We've really got to stop the whole internal pollution that's been going on
before it just chokes us all.
That's the message that [F] comes when guys like yourself do a concert _
[F] and make a statement, do something like what you're doing with Phoenix House now.
Because I agree with [B] Mitch.
I think that's where the [E] turnaround is going to come.
And it's going to have to come from youth itself.
People get values that they [A] have about drugs, first of all from their family
and later [Gb] from their friends and then from those other people out there who they look up to.
And [Ab] that's really why your [G] role is so critical,
because young people are [E] looking for people who [Ab] they can believe in,
who seem to be [G] having fun and making it,
and that you can [Gb] be having fun and making it
and be out of hard drugs is really very important.
When they take a look at the situation that this country is in,
and it's not very hard to get out of it.
All you got to do is look around and you see that there's troubles everywhere.
And so they want to get away [Em] from it.
_ _ [E] But like you say, [Bb] _ getting away from it [Eb] isn't going to solve the [F] problem. _ _
[Gb] It's going to take a strong physical body and mental body,
[B] a clean body to overcome the dirt that is here [D] now. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Getting _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ [Em] _ [D] closer, getting closer, _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ [D] _ getting _ closer, _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ getting _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ [D] _ _ _ closer,
_ [A]
not _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ only getting closer, _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Dbm] _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _