Chords for It's a pleasure to meet you

Well, hey, _ it's August the 7th, 2023.
_ _ And as of this recording, tomorrow on Tuesday, Radio WV is going to upload the debut of Richmond
North of Richmond.
_ [N] And it's going to be the first song to get out there that's been recorded on a real microphone
and a real camera, and not just on my cell phone.
And Lord willing, it's going to get some traffic and maybe at least a few of you are going
to drift your way over here.
And I thought I'd have kind of an introduction video on _ _ what it is I'm aiming to do here.
_ So _ well, _ _ _ I've been playing a long time and singing.
I really started to write my own music back in 2021.
_ _ _ _ _ Things were _ obviously not good for a lot of people.
And _ _ in some respects, I was one of those people.
And I had _ wasted a lot of nights getting high and getting drunk.
_ _ And _ I had sort of gotten to a point in my life where even things that I did care about
didn't mean anything to me anymore.
And I _ mean, this is certainly no Dr.
Phil episode, but _ I _ _ _ found an [F] outlet in this music.
[Eb] And I _ started uploading a couple songs.
[F] And you know, ain't [E] got a dollar.
I [A] uploaded _ Spring of [Eb] Last Year and then _ [E] Rich Man's Gold, Cobwebs and Cocaine, and the list
goes on from there.
And there's probably been about a dozen or so originals that I've put out just [N] off my cell phone.
And _ I started getting messages from people saying like how much the music was helping
them and, you know, with their struggles in their lives.
_ And they'd been sitting on the back porch listening to me for the last hour.
And it just, _ I _ don't know, it really gave me a purpose.
It made me feel like _ _ I wasn't just wasting my time.
And so _ anyway, _ kind of the last roller coaster of the last year, I have _ _ _ decided that this
is going to be what I do. _
At all costs, no matter what, I'm going to _ create, I'm going to write, create and produce
as much original, authentic music as I can.
And the hopes that it _ _ will at least help somebody out there that needs it.
_ _ _ And _ I know we're living in dark times and I know that this is _ _ really just the beginning
of what's to come.
_ _ And _ _ _ _ there's a lot of beautiful people in this world.
And I meet a lot of awesome people every day.
_ Even back when _ I [F] did work in the factory, you know, I sing about selling [C] my soul.
And I am a ginger, so I don't know if I have a soul to sell or not. _
_ _ _ _ _ But [Gb] I met a lot of good people even back then, working third shift, [F] 12 hours, 6 days a [Eb] week.
_ [N] And now I spend a lot of time on job sites and I meet people from all across the country.
And the universal thing I see is that it's like no matter how hard they push and how
much [F] effort they put into whatever it is they're doing, they just can't quite get ahead.
Because the dollar's not worth enough.
It's being _
[Bb] overtaxed.
_ _ _ [N] _ People are just sick and tired of being sick and tired.
_ _ And _ so yeah, I want to be a voice for those people.
And not just them, just humans in general.
And some of the struggles and the battles that they go through.
_ And there'll be a lot of positive songs on here too.
And there already are some.
You know, 90 Some Chevy and Between You and Me.
And I mean, Even Ain't Got a Dollar.
Those are going to be fun songs.
And there'll be plenty more like that.
But _ I appreciate you taking the time to listen. _
_ And hopefully you like what you hear. _ _
My email is OliverAnthonyMusic at gmail.com.
I'd love to hear from you.
_ I'll speak a few minutes on Richmond, North [Gb] of Richmond and [F] then we'll hang this thing up.
I don't want to chatter too long to [Eb] you.
But _ Richmond, North of Richmond, you know, it touches on my time in [F] Western North Carolina
[Ab] working in the factory.
And it talks about some people that live north of Richmond, Virginia, who I'm sure you're
very aware of, who _ make life a little more difficult than it should be.
It touches base on human trafficking and _ [F] the atrocities that_
[N] _ _ _ _
_ _ Well, _ I'll say this.
I sit _ pretty dead center down the aisle on politics _ and always have.
_ I remember as a kid, the conservatives wanting war and me not understanding that.
And I remember _ _ a lot of the controversies when the left took office.
And _ _ it seems like, you know, both sides serve the same master.
And that master is not someone of any good [E] to the people of this country.
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [F] But I think one of the worst things that a human being can do _
[A] is take [Bb] advantage of a child. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
I can't begin to conceptualize _ _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ what has to happen to someone in order.
_ _ [N] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ I think I drew the [E] line on _ being [Bb] quiet. _
_ _ _ _ [F] I started to see [N] _ _ becoming normalized.
_ And I'll leave that at that.
_ And the last part of the song, it touches _ on _ _ _ _ _ suicide rates and on and really on mental
health and depression.
And _ _ there's no [Eb] reason why young men or women in this country should be committing suicide.
_ _ _ [Db] There's obviously a problem.
You know, _ people talk about epidemics in this country and the homelessness and [N] the drug
use and _ the lack of skilled labor and the suicide rates.
Those things aren't those aren't problems.
Those are symptoms of a bigger universal problem.
And _ a lot of people know that it's common sense, but we don't talk about it enough.
_ And maybe that is the problem.
Maybe that is the problem today is we just don't talk enough common sense anymore.
You know, we've kind of went a little off the deep end. _ _ _
_ So.
So, yeah, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I guess I'll leave it at that.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
I hope wherever you are in the world, listen to this [F] and whatever it is that you're
trying to do with your life, I hope that you I hope [E] that you succeed at it.
And [Ab] _ _ _
and I hope if [F] you take anything away from me _ _ and [Eb] the music I write, [N] it's that _ _ _ this
life is a _ is a beautiful opportunity.
_ _ And _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ I don't care where you are or what you've done, [Bb] _ _
_ _ [E] where you think [D] your life's heading.
Everything can [E] change in a moment as long as you're above the dirt, you've got a fighting chance.
_ [N] _ And _ _ _ and I'll say this and I'll go, I, _ I spent a long time being angry, an angry
little agnostic punk.
_ And I [E] remember talking about Sky Daddy and Cloud Papa.
[F] And I would [Eb] get so angry about the [N] concept of God because I _ _ I had sort of perverted
what my vision of God was, because I I looked at I looked at the religion of man
as [F] God and not and [Eb] not God himself.
But _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] there is a divine creator that loves you.
And _ and sometimes it takes falling down on [Gb] your knees and getting [E] ready to call
things quits _ _ _ [D] before it becomes obvious [Bbm] that he's there.
But _ he's always [Eb] there.
You just got to look out for him and [Bbm] listen for him. _ _
_ _ [D] So I'll see you on the next one. _
And I love you [Ebm] guys and gals.
And _ I'm really appreciative of you listening to my music and giving me a [Dbm] voice.
So _ Lord willing, this is just [Bb] the beginning. _ _