Chords for James Taylor Performs a Medley of His Hits Live on the Stern Show (2015)

Do a little of, if you don't mind, just even a verse and a chorus of Caroline [B] in my mind.
Oh sure.
And you, you wrote in London.
You were homesick for Carolina.
Well, I wrote part of it in London, but when I think of this song myself, I think of
being on an island in Spain called Formentera, a little rustic place.
I met a girl named Karen
there.
Karen and I went across to Ibiza.
We took a boat over there.
We missed the last boat back.
Didn't have enough money to stay in a hotel, so we just stayed in the, in the piazza there
down by the harbor and waited for the first boat in the morning.
And that's where I, she went to
sleep on the sidewalk in this cafe closed down for the night.
[E] And I, I had my guitar with me and I,
I, I wrote this too. _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ [Gbm] _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ In my mind I'm going [Gb] to [B] Carolina.
[Gb] Can _ [B] _
_ [A] _ _ [E] you see the [Dbm] sunshine?
_ [Gb] Can't you just feel [B] the moonshine?
[Em] _
Ain't it just [A] like a friend [B] of mine [A] to hit me [E] from _ [Gb] behind?
[B] Yes, I'm [Dbm] going to _ [Gb] _ Carolina.
In my mind.
_ _ [E] _ _ _ Karen, she's a silver sun.
[A] You best walk [E] her way [B] and watch her shine.
[Dbm] _ [Gb] Watch her [A] watch the morning [B] come _ _ _ _ _ [E] with a silver tear appearing while I'm [Gb] crying.
[B] Ain't I? _
[E] Ain't I going [Dbm] to [Gb] Carolina in my mind?
_ _ [E] _ [Db] It was really a sad story, [E] Fire and Rain, references your friend Suzanne who [C] died.
I mean, it's a sad song for you, I would imagine.
Do you still get affected by it?
I probably wouldn't sit down and play it by myself alone.
_ _ But _ when you play it in front of
an audience, you definitely [D] feel their connection with it.
You know, that's a whole other thing.
Just give me a taste of Fire and Rain, if you [C] don't mind. _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
[Gm] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ Just yesterday [Gm] morning, they let [F] me know you were [C] gone. _ _
_ _ Suzanne [G] _ plans she [F] may put an end to you.
_ _ _ [C]
I walked out [Gm] in the morning [F] and I wrote down the [C] song. _ _ _
I just can't [G] remember who [F] to send it to. _ _ _ _ _ _
I've [D] seen fire [C] and I've seen [G] rain. _
_ [C] _ _ I've seen a sunny [Bb] day that the clock would never [C] end. _
_ _ I've [F] seen lonely times and could not find a [C] friend. _ _
_ _ [Bb] But I [Am] always [G] thought I'd [Gm] see you again. _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
_ _ [N] You finally really got clean after you saw Belushi in his casket.
Belushi was a good friend of yours, but that really sobered you up.
That's when you [B] said,
this is it.
It's true.
I wrote a song called That's Why I'm Here [G] that has a verse in it about John.
It's like,
[F] _ _ _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [Fm] John's [Bb] gone found [Gm] dead.
He dies high.
[Cm] He's brown [Fm] bread.
[Eb] Later said to have [Bb] drowned in [Fm] his [Bb] bed. _
[Fm] After [Bb] the laughter, [G] the right way for [Cm] dread.
[Db] Man, it hits [Gm] us like a tunnel.
It _
[Bb] _ _ _ [F] seems learn not [Bb] to burn [Gm] means to turn on [Cm] a dime and [Fm] walk on if you walk.
Even if it's in the pill, [F] climb, try to remember [G] it's not just a [Cm] crime.
[Db] It's a criminal [Ab] waste of [Bb] your time. _
That's why [Eb] I'm here.
[Bb] _ [Eb] _ _
[Ab] _ _ _ Walk in.
[Bb] _ _
_ _ [Ab] That's why [F] I'm [Bb] standing. _
_ _ _ [Ab] _ That's why [Bb] I'm here.
_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] Billy Joel is [C] at my wedding.
He got up.
He sang a song [E] to me and my wife.
I thought he was going
to [B] sing one of his songs.
He sang a James Taylor [Bb] song.
You can close your eyes.
And that reminded
me what a great song that is too.
[Eb] Can you do [Ab] a little bit of that?
_ [Eb] _
_ Oh, the sun is short [Ab] _ [Ebm] sinking _ [Bb] down, _ _ _ but [F] then moon is [Eb] slowly _ [Ab] rising. _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ _ So sober [Abm] must still [Eb] be spinning [Bb] around.
_ _ _ _ [F] And I [Cm]
still [Bb] _ love [Ab] you.
_ [F] _ _
_ [Eb] _ _ [Ab] Would you close your [Bb] eyes?
_ [Db] You can close [Ab] your eyes.
It's [Cm] all right. _ _ _
_ [Fm] I don't [Bb] know no love songs.
[Db] And I can't sing [Ab] blues [Cm] anymore.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Fm]
But I [Eb] can sing [F] this song.
[Ab] _ [Eb] _ _
_ _ [F] And you can sing [Ab] this song.
[Bb] When [Cm] I'm gone, _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ it won't [Ab] be long before [Eb]
another [Bb] day. _ _ _ _
Yeah, [Fm] we're gonna [C] have [F] a good [Ab] time. _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [Eb] And no one's [Ab] gonna take that [Eb] time [Bb] away.
_ _ _ _ [Cm] _ _ [C] You can [Bb] stay as long [Eb] as you like.
[Ab] _ [F] _ _
_ _ [Eb] _ _ [Abm] Only [Eb] close your _ [Bb] eyes.
[Db] You can close [Ab] your eyes.
It's [Cm] all right. _ _
_ _ [Fm] Darling, I don't know [Bb] no love songs.
[Bbm] And I [Eb] can't sing [Ab] the
blues [Eb] [Cm] anymore. _ _ _ _ _
Sure, [F] but I can sing this song.
_ _ _ _ And you can sing this song.
[Bb] When [Cm] I'm gone. _
_ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
Boy, that song just wrecks me [Abm] emotionally.
[Am] You know, I wrote that song _ for
[B] Joni, right?
Joni in a hotel room in [Gb] Tucumcari, New Mexico.
Do you remember singing [E] it to her?
Did she [N] just melt?
You know, I guess she liked the song.
You know, I got lucky.
I don't know.
_ Wow.
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