Chords for James Taylor, Carole King, Bonny Raitt, Jackson Browne - The early years @The Troubadour

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_ _ [Db] Way over yon _ _ _
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_ is a place [Ab] where _
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I can _ [Ebm] find _ shelter _ _ _ _ from _
_ _ [Ab] _ _ _ hunger _
_ [Db] and _ cold.
[Gb] It was just a community that I don't think once people got successful and moved their different ways and went out to Malibu and the beach and all that,
there wasn't as much hang time as there was at that particular [Fm] moment in time. _
_ _ [Ebm] _ Everybody got busy.
When everybody _ _ _ released their albums and started touring, _ [Ab] it just changed completely. _
_ In my case, I wound up being a parent pretty soon, and there's a definite conflict between partying all night and [Gb] being on the job with a baby.
[Db] _ _ _ Then _ trouble _ [Bb] fools _ _ _ _ _ _ _ me, _ _ _ worry _ leave me [Ebm] _ _ _
behind, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ and I'll stand [Db] up _ _ proudly _
[Ab] _ _ _ _ _ in _ _ true [Gb] peace of mind.
_ _ [Db] My [E] mom decided to move to Idaho, so we moved into these cabins, no running water or [Db] electricity.
I think she sort of found that living on that really basic _ survivalist level, [Bbm] I think this is how she grounded herself for a time.
_ _ [Ab] I really wanted to live someplace where there was [Eb] a vast connection with nature, and when I went there, I was like, this is good. _
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_ _ [Gm] _ [Ab] _ _ [Gm] _ [Ab] James was [Bb] never a Los Angeles person.
He never lived in L.A., really made a home as Carol did and as [F] Danny and his [Ab] wife did. _ _
_ [Eb] It's not only Carol and I that sort of _ drifted apart or _ _ stopped working together.
_ Things don't last forever.
_ None of these things are meant [Ab] to. _ _
_ _ _ _ That's where _ _ [Eb] I'm bound.
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[Gbm] _ _ _ [E] Oh, the sun is surely _ _ sinking _ [B] down, [Gb] _ _ [B] _ _ _ [Gb] but the moon is _ [E] slowly _ [A] rising. _
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So this old [A] world must still [E] be spinning [B] _ round, _ _ _
_ _ [Gb] _ and [Dbm] I am [B] still _ [E] alive.
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_ [Gbm] _ [B] _ _ [E] _ [A] Oh, close _ [E] your eyes, [B] _ _
[D] you can [A] close your _ eyes, it's [Db] alright.
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_ _ _ [Gbm] I don't know [B] no love songs, _ [D] I can't sing [A] the blues _ _ [Dbm] anymore.
_ _ _ _ _ _ Yeah, but I can [E] sing [A] this song. _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Gb] You [E] can sing this song.
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_ [B] _ _ [E] _ _ _ In 1972 or 73, I guess we did our last shows together.
I mean, [N] it was an intense period.
That's right, and it resonated with me so strongly that when I wrote You've Got a Friend, _ _ _ it _ came through me.
That song _ purely, purely came through me.
And it was because I knew you and I was listening to your music all the time.
You were the trigger for me doing that.
So thank you.
_ _ It was _ _ such a _ symbiotic [Ab] and such a mutual love.
_ It defies [Eb] description.
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_ _ [Ab] _ [C] always [Db] think of like, why _ [Fm] when Monet started painting Impressionism, why were there suddenly six other [Gb] people doing it [Ab] too? _ _
It's because it's the moment for it.
[Db] And I feel like that's, _ [Gb] that was the moment [Db] for that.
There was almost no _ barrier _
[Eb] between [Db] _ _ the artist and the art.
_ _ [Ab] _ These songs are really the [Db] fabric of a generation and of a society.
[Gb] So I mean, when people [Ab] hear them, it's like smelling a [Fm] clover that you remember as a child.
And suddenly you're thrown back in time and [Bbm] you're just reliving some moment you had.
And it's deep. _
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_ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ what we're here for.
We're here to get people to feel.
That's what James and Carol are here for.
We're not here for ourselves.
We get them to feel, to remember what it's like to feel and to remind them of their own humanity.
That's what great music _ is [Db] supposed to do.
Nothing less.
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