Chords for Hayes Carll talks Guy Clark
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Jam Along & Learn...
I met Guy at a little festival in Spring, Texas many years ago.
I think I was the first act of the day at 11 or something.
And Guy was the headliner.
And afterwards we went out to this sort of ranch house to have a party.
Anyway, we all sat around and Guy, he had just released that record, The Dark.
at some point, like three in the morning, he sits on a stool out in the backyard and
all sit around in a circle like school children.
And he played the entire record, just solo acoustic.
I think I was the first act of the day at 11 or something.
And Guy was the headliner.
And afterwards we went out to this sort of ranch house to have a party.
Anyway, we all sat around and Guy, he had just released that record, The Dark.
at some point, like three in the morning, he sits on a stool out in the backyard and
all sit around in a circle like school children.
And he played the entire record, just solo acoustic.
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I met Guy at a _ _ _ _ _ little festival in Spring, _ Texas _ many years ago.
I think I was the first act of the day at 11 or something.
_ _ _ And Guy was the headliner.
And afterwards we went out to this sort of ranch house to have a party.
Anyway, we all sat around and Guy, he had just released that record, The Dark.
_ _ And at some point, like three in the morning, he sits on a stool out in the backyard and
the rest of us all sit around in a circle like school children.
_ _ And he played the entire record, just solo acoustic.
Well, Merlin Thompson was there with him.
And so they just played.
We got this concert, 15 people of a Guy Clark record that had just been released.
And I remember him, _ he's got that song, The Dark, and
there's a sort of a _ _ repeating phrase.
It was, how dark is it? _ _ _
And it [E] was like we were all sitting around the campfire and
he was regaling us with this, how dark is it? _
And we're just sitting there like this unbelievable experience.
And _ _ _ _ so _ _ _ _ _ that _ record was a _ big one for me and
then I kind of parlayed that into getting to write with him.
I just called him up.
I said, you don't remember me probably, but
you bummed a bunch of my cigarettes a couple months ago.
And I'm gonna be in Nashville.
Can I come over and write a song with you?
He said, well, come on over.
_ So I did and we wrote a tune. _ _
_ _ _ _ [Am] _ And I played just a _ _ clip of [Em] it, sort of go to my own.
There's a million [F#] guy songs, but this was just really special to me because _ I was
sitting in his basement with that big picture of Townes over the workshop where
he builds his guitars and _ _ watching him write down my words into graph paper,
one letter at a time, and just the _ intensity and _
_ _ discipline with which he worked, _ and it was shed all fat. _
I had never seen that.
I hadn't done much co-writing.
You just kind of figure it out on your own as a songwriter.
Like, well, I guess I'll rhyme this with that.
And to watch him _ _ _ and the approach that he had and
the lines he would _ _ pretty _ unceremoniously shut down of mine and say, no, that's crap.
This _ is what we're going for.
And that discipline and focus was, _ _ _ I _ _ wish I could say I adopted a lot of it,
but _ _ _ _ it was really informative and _ _ inspiring to watch. _
Anyway, this is, _ _ _ just do a verse here.
_ _ [Am] Take me to _ [C] _ Rivertown, where [G] you can't tell night [Am] from day.
_ And _ everything is [C] forgiven [D] _ that [G] did not wash [Am] away. _ _
Where dreaming [B] comes too [E] easy, yeah, but living is [Am] twice as hard. _
And everything is [C] buried beneath the [D] water and the [Am]
star.
[A] _ _ _ _ _ Now here I am from [C] Corsican, _ _
_ [G] wayward on the storm.
[Am] _ _
I've been rolling [B] empty _ [C] sevens [Gm] since the day that I was [Am] born. _
Got no rings upon my [C]
fingers, got [G] no ink [D] beneath my [Am] skin.
[F#] _ I'd be as clean [C] _ going out [G] as I [Gm] was coming [A] in.
[F#] _ _ _ [Am] And I'm gonna [F] _ wash [G] my sins _ in the _ Angelina [A] River.
_ _ [F] And all that she could [C] take from me [E] was all that I could [E] give her.
[F] And time will take you [C] back, _ _ [G] and time will bring you [Am] home.
_ [F] I turned my back some [C] time ago, _ [G] and now I'm [D] going.
_ _ [F#] _ _
_ [Am] _ _ [E] I forgot the lyrics [F#] to my own song, but anyway, it was really cool.
It was an amazing experience to walk out of that day _ and
have written a song with Guy Clark. _
There was this mysterious underworld _ _ of _ _ beatnik, hippie,
intellectual, redneck poets _ that I was so fascinated with.
Because you had this mainstream country stuff, and you had the faces of that,
the Willie Nelsons and the Johnny Cashes. _
And you hear them talking about the people that they admired.
And so that was kind of my next phase _ _ of exploring this stuff.
It's okay, I've got the guys I love, and this music that means a lot to me.
But now I'm discovering there's this whole world of people that are not as
well known, that are maybe behind the scenes, but are really admired.
_ [Am] _ _ _
_ And maybe don't fit inside [G#] of this kind of,
_ [A] _ _ they're a little too rough around the edges for
the mainstream _ _ _ success that some of these other guys had enjoyed.
And, or for whatever reason. _ _
And Guy fit into that, and _ Outlaw Poet Intellectual _ _ _
_ group really appealed to me.
And the fact that they were writing stuff _ like they were writing.
They were pushing the boundaries of that and
_ _ _ referencing poets and literature.
And these were well read, _ _ _ _ in many cases deep thinking people,
who at the same time looked like a cast of easy rider.
_ _ And just had a _ coolness about them that I thought,
yeah, that was something I aspired to, certainly.
_ _ [N] _ _
I think I was the first act of the day at 11 or something.
_ _ _ And Guy was the headliner.
And afterwards we went out to this sort of ranch house to have a party.
Anyway, we all sat around and Guy, he had just released that record, The Dark.
_ _ And at some point, like three in the morning, he sits on a stool out in the backyard and
the rest of us all sit around in a circle like school children.
_ _ And he played the entire record, just solo acoustic.
Well, Merlin Thompson was there with him.
And so they just played.
We got this concert, 15 people of a Guy Clark record that had just been released.
And I remember him, _ he's got that song, The Dark, and
there's a sort of a _ _ repeating phrase.
It was, how dark is it? _ _ _
And it [E] was like we were all sitting around the campfire and
he was regaling us with this, how dark is it? _
And we're just sitting there like this unbelievable experience.
And _ _ _ _ so _ _ _ _ _ that _ record was a _ big one for me and
then I kind of parlayed that into getting to write with him.
I just called him up.
I said, you don't remember me probably, but
you bummed a bunch of my cigarettes a couple months ago.
And I'm gonna be in Nashville.
Can I come over and write a song with you?
He said, well, come on over.
_ So I did and we wrote a tune. _ _
_ _ _ _ [Am] _ And I played just a _ _ clip of [Em] it, sort of go to my own.
There's a million [F#] guy songs, but this was just really special to me because _ I was
sitting in his basement with that big picture of Townes over the workshop where
he builds his guitars and _ _ watching him write down my words into graph paper,
one letter at a time, and just the _ intensity and _
_ _ discipline with which he worked, _ and it was shed all fat. _
I had never seen that.
I hadn't done much co-writing.
You just kind of figure it out on your own as a songwriter.
Like, well, I guess I'll rhyme this with that.
And to watch him _ _ _ and the approach that he had and
the lines he would _ _ pretty _ unceremoniously shut down of mine and say, no, that's crap.
This _ is what we're going for.
And that discipline and focus was, _ _ _ I _ _ wish I could say I adopted a lot of it,
but _ _ _ _ it was really informative and _ _ inspiring to watch. _
Anyway, this is, _ _ _ just do a verse here.
_ _ [Am] Take me to _ [C] _ Rivertown, where [G] you can't tell night [Am] from day.
_ And _ everything is [C] forgiven [D] _ that [G] did not wash [Am] away. _ _
Where dreaming [B] comes too [E] easy, yeah, but living is [Am] twice as hard. _
And everything is [C] buried beneath the [D] water and the [Am]
star.
[A] _ _ _ _ _ Now here I am from [C] Corsican, _ _
_ [G] wayward on the storm.
[Am] _ _
I've been rolling [B] empty _ [C] sevens [Gm] since the day that I was [Am] born. _
Got no rings upon my [C]
fingers, got [G] no ink [D] beneath my [Am] skin.
[F#] _ I'd be as clean [C] _ going out [G] as I [Gm] was coming [A] in.
[F#] _ _ _ [Am] And I'm gonna [F] _ wash [G] my sins _ in the _ Angelina [A] River.
_ _ [F] And all that she could [C] take from me [E] was all that I could [E] give her.
[F] And time will take you [C] back, _ _ [G] and time will bring you [Am] home.
_ [F] I turned my back some [C] time ago, _ [G] and now I'm [D] going.
_ _ [F#] _ _
_ [Am] _ _ [E] I forgot the lyrics [F#] to my own song, but anyway, it was really cool.
It was an amazing experience to walk out of that day _ and
have written a song with Guy Clark. _
There was this mysterious underworld _ _ of _ _ beatnik, hippie,
intellectual, redneck poets _ that I was so fascinated with.
Because you had this mainstream country stuff, and you had the faces of that,
the Willie Nelsons and the Johnny Cashes. _
And you hear them talking about the people that they admired.
And so that was kind of my next phase _ _ of exploring this stuff.
It's okay, I've got the guys I love, and this music that means a lot to me.
But now I'm discovering there's this whole world of people that are not as
well known, that are maybe behind the scenes, but are really admired.
_ [Am] _ _ _
_ And maybe don't fit inside [G#] of this kind of,
_ [A] _ _ they're a little too rough around the edges for
the mainstream _ _ _ success that some of these other guys had enjoyed.
And, or for whatever reason. _ _
And Guy fit into that, and _ Outlaw Poet Intellectual _ _ _
_ group really appealed to me.
And the fact that they were writing stuff _ like they were writing.
They were pushing the boundaries of that and
_ _ _ referencing poets and literature.
And these were well read, _ _ _ _ in many cases deep thinking people,
who at the same time looked like a cast of easy rider.
_ _ And just had a _ coolness about them that I thought,
yeah, that was something I aspired to, certainly.
_ _ [N] _ _
