Chords for Jason Isbell leads Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" at Nashville Urban Campfire

It was [E] a big deal for me as a kid because my [Em] grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher and you know
He was he [G] was into very old-timey music and this was in the 80s
So that wasn't you know, the [B] popular music of the day.
It's not like when Jerry was
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_ _ Big by [G] popular bands could be popular
They could be, you know, Bing [C] Crosby and people like that.
Oh right, everybody.
[E] But my parents were not a whole awful lot older than [Bb] I was so my [Abm] dad had a bunch of us.
[N] _ I mean, I'm just telling the truth.
I was gonna say, roll tide.
[G] I had _ [Db] the lyrics to one of your songs about it.
Yeah. Yeah.
[C] You know what I'm talking about.
You [G] had a green Mustang, wasn't it?
There was, yeah, a modern one.
And my [B] grandmother ran it into the side of the house.
She [E] didn't have [Abm] a driver's license.
She just got in it and drove it into the [N] house.
To keep my dad out of it.
[C] Probably saved all of our lives, Jerry.
[B] But, see, his records were, you [G] know, big rock bands and [D] country music in the 70s and the early 80s.
A lot of arena rock.
So my brain was sort of alternating [C] between, you know, the Carter family and all these old gospel songs
[E] and, you know, all the country music of the old days.
And then [Gm] Dad's, you know, free and thin Lizzy and Queen [D] and Pink Floyd albums.
So I started [G] to sort of find a thread between the two.
And this song, I think, connects it as much as anything else with the Pretty [C] Simple Thing.
I love it.
And at a [Ab] certain point as a songwriter, I [B] realized, you know,
this song's about Sid Barrett, who was in the [Cm] band Pink Floyd.
[B] And then he sort of lost his mind.
And on the way to [E] a gig one day, they decided not to pick him up and take him to the gig.
And that was the end of his time in that [G] band.
And I think it turned out to probably be a good thing for Pink Floyd.
Pink Floyd flipped.
Yeah.
[N] _ _ _ _ [C] That's good.
That's good.
[N] Y'all didn't have to pay extra for the joke.
_ [Em] But, [B] uh.
[G] But anyway, so when I realized this song meant Wish You Were Here, like Wish You Were Still There,
it really opened my mind up a lot as Pink Floyd will do.
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[Am] Heaven from hell
Blue [G] skies from pain
Tell you [D] tell the green trees
From a golden age
[Am] Your skin on red
Smile from there
Did you think [G] you could tell _
Did they consider [C] trade
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I asked [Am] the tree
_ I [G] asked the cool breeze
Go [D] comfort the chain
Did [C] you stay
Or walk [Am] apart in the cold
The leaf rolled [G] with the cake
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ever [C]-loving
How I wish
How I wish you [D] were here _
With [Am] just two lost souls
Living in the field
[G] Year after year
_ [D] Running over the same old ground
[C] Every time, the same [Am] old year
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I wish you were here Thank you. _ _ _