Chords for Jann Arden Shares Some of Her Firsts

I _ _ [F] love _ you.
The first car I ever owned was [E]
a 1962 [F] Corvair.
_ _ I don't think it was a precursor to a [Bbm] Corvette.
It had a push button, _ _ like drive, park, reverse, neutral, was on the dash, push button.
It [Bb] was $200.
_ I [Dm] got quite drunk one night [Bb] and I did something to the push buttons
[C] and my friend Teresa [F] drove us home in reverse all [C] the way to my parents' house.
True story.
I got in a lot of trouble for that.
_ The first concert I ever attended I went with my friend Patty [Am] Scholdeis.
We went to Kiss.
[F] It was 1976.
_ _ [C]
And the crazy thing about this, I didn't have a ticket, neither did [F] she.
We just went to the Chorale, which is like, that was the big venue in Calgary in the 70s.
_ And I believe Pat Benatar was opening for them.
_ Whatever.
_ It could have been [Bb] Pat, but it might not have been Pat Benatar.
She's probably [F] going to phone me because we are tight, or like close.
It was close.
And we didn't have tickets, but we got pushed through the turnstiles.
People [Bb] just like rushed to get in because [F] it was rush seating.
I guess that's why people rush.
And we just got carried over the turnstiles and into the venue and we just stood there.
I think we were 15. _
Kiss, first concert.
The first album I ever purchased [Dm] was the Carpenters' Ticket to [Bb] Ride.
And I got it from the Columbia Record [Dm] Club.
So for one [Bb] cent, _ _ _ [C]
no, you send in a dollar.
[Fm] No, I think it was one cent [C] for ten albums.
It was one cent and they sent you ten albums and you consequently got a new album [F] every month.
You _ [C] couldn't send them back.
They gave you instructions, but really they made it impossible to do it.
_ Carpenters, [F] probably followed by [C]
Bette Midler's Divine Miss M.
There was a whole bunch that I loved at that.
[F] I did get good records from the Columbia Record Club.
I'm still on it.
I'm still a member.
I can't fucking get off.
I can't get [Bb] off the club.
_ I wrote into [F] Buffalo.
I sent my check.
I'm still on it.
Still getting albums.
Just got Tijuana Brass like two weeks ago.
First song [Dm] I wrote, I know exactly.
I was 11 years [B] old and I had just learned to play guitar.
And this is reminiscent of kind [C] of where my career went some 40 years later.
It was called Paradise _ and it was two chords, D [Dm]
and B,
which are never to be played _ [B]
in an [G] oscillating _ pattern.
And [C] it was about my parents dying.
_ I'm kidding you.
I [G] can still kind of remember it, but I'm not going to sing it for you now
because I'm just not in shape.
But it's really high.
_ _ Paradise, first song.
My first kiss, I was [N] given a piece of double bubble
_ _ [F] _ _ _ by a fellow named Leonard Parker. _ _ _
_ And I think I was, I was early to, it was an early kiss.
I'm going to say I was 12, which I feel is early in the game.
It was a closed mouth [Bb] kiss, but Leonard did have a [F] rogue tooth
_ [Bb] _
that lifted his [F] lips slightly.
And I remember it poking into me.
_ _ _ And I just, it was all I could do just to keep my mouth closed.
Leonard did try and do a little tongue action,
which is surprising for 12 years old, you know.
_ [Dm] _ _ And [Bb] anyway, yeah, memorable.
But I did get [Dm] gum.
It was the beginning of me [Bb] taking things for [C] those kinds of encounters
as I got older.
It turned into, at first it was a beer, something innocent,
_ fries, a combo.
[Am] _ _ That's where it all [F] starts.
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