Chords for ian and sylvia tyson - great specklebird

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_ [D] I think [F#] that being a little [F#m] different _ _ [B] in _ high school, [F#] especially in a small town [C#] in the
50s, you were a loner.
I mean, [E] if you were in a major city, at least you could find somebody
else who was as weird as you were to hang out with.
[B] I think that it became less difficult
[F#] for me when I realized that it wasn't that I would not conform, but rather that it was
impossible for me to conform.
And [N] at that point, I really just started to go [A#m] with _ [D]
it.
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_ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ Sylvia Tyson became [Cm] fascinated by traditional music [D#] through a love of words and literature.
In early [D] age, she moved to Toronto and created some history of her own.
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_ _ [F#m] Both Ian and I had always had very [D#] different tastes in music and had come from very different
_ musical backgrounds.
_ And to a certain point, that simply added some interesting tension
to the music.
It just so happened that the [G] first song that Ian ever wrote was Four Strong
Winds, and the first song I ever wrote was You Were On My [G] Mind. _
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_ [E] _ Those [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ were really good _
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dances, and that's what that time [C] was for me.
[G]
Ian and Sylvia moved in an elite [D] circle of artists from Toronto's Yorkville scene to
New York's Greenwich Village. _
Constantly looking for new material and new means of expression,
they created the Great Speckled Bird, pioneering a hybrid of folk, country, [G] and rock, proved
alienating to their traditional [F]
folk audience.
[F#m] To understand the initial reaction to the Great Speckled Bird, you have to understand
just how _ closely connected people [B] felt to the original Ian and [F#m] Sylvia's sound, which
was an acoustic sound.
And it was a [D] shock for them.
_ It's really quite ironic because
[F#] the Great Speckled Bird album is now considered to be [F#m] sort of a seminal _ [E]
album [C#] in sort of the
new country folk sound.
_ [A] I'm never [E] alone now, [A] when I think of you.
I [D] can see your [A] face smiling, _ _ [D] _ whatever I do.
_ _ [F#m] Sylvia sees herself as a [F#] songwriter first.
Like many Canadian [F#m] authors, from Leacock
to [D] Lawrence, she [B] specializes in finely drawn portraits [F#] of small town life that reveal a universal [A] experience.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] I certainly have seen success as a country singer, mainly with the story songs, the songs
like River Road and [E] Regine and Trucker's Cafe.
I do find [F#m] that _ _ sometimes those [G] are a way to
avoid writing about really personal stuff.
I realized at a certain point that I could
[E] not be afraid that people might [G] find out something about me from [D] my songs.
_ _ _ [G] And so my
feeling at this point is, damn the torpedoes, full speed