Chords for Jelly Roll | My Opry Debut

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_ _ My name is Jelly Roll and this is my Opry debut.
This is our office.
We got a spot right here on Music Row.
We opened it up in [A] 2019 and I [Bbm] wanted to bring something different to the typical country
style of Music Row.
You know, I wanted a place that people could come in at 3 o'clock in the morning or 2 o'clock
in the afternoon. _ _
[Ebm] The Ballads of the Broken Album was kind of my introduction to doing stuff outside of
complete hip [D] hop.
The album's just reflective of a lifetime of pain.
These back roads guide me, these tales pretend to be my friend.
I grew up in [Em] Antioch, Tennessee, which is south of Nashville in a middle to [Gbm] lower class [D] community.
I'm on my way back there [G] somehow, I should know [A] by now.
[Dm] When I was a young kid, I made some pretty rough decisions early.
Around 14, I caught my [A] first criminal charge.
I came home and immediately caught another charge at 16 and a half, 17 years old.
I'm just [D] a long haired son of a sinner.
I'm searching [G] for new ways I can get gone.
For me being in jail, [A] I knew that I needed to hone in on a trait and I loved music.
[Bm] So they would do this thing where they would rap and battle rap each other in the assembly every day.
_ This was like the one thing you would look forward [C] to.
So I kind of immediately got into the rap world and honed my skills in through years
of being incarcerated.
And during my time [Em] of incarceration, I had a [Am] daughter.
I remember thinking, I have to [F] figure out how to take care of her without [C] risking my freedom anymore.
[Em] _ I came home and I took what [Am] I had learned in the streets and I applied it to [G] music.
I just [C] wrote songs, recorded songs, I put them on CDs, I printed up t-shirts and I sold
them out of the trunk.
I [Am] immediately took to that hustle and started trying to build the [Fm] brand that way to take
care of my daughter who was like one and a half years old by the time I came out.
[Em] _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ [C] [Em] Being from Nashville, [G] Tennessee, [D] when they asked me this year, [E] did I want to play a sin
to [G] amphitheater or the Ryman, I [Dm] immediately picked the Ryman.
I [C] felt the need as a local [Em] kid to go back to the mother church.
[D] Boy, y'all [E] made me feel like Garth [C] Brooks tonight.
_ [G] _ [C] So I'm backstage [Em] at the Ryman [G] Auditorium and Jen says,
Come play [Em] on the Grand Ole Opry and make your [B] debut.
Hell yeah.
I would be honored.
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_ [G] _ _ _ [C] _ [F] _ [Cm] plan [Gm] on this being [Am] easier.
Being invited to play the Grand Ole Opry [F] for me [Am]
is like, [G] it's the ultimate overcoming of everything.
I represent a group of [C] people that would have [Gm] never believed that [F] anything like [C] this could
happen [F] to anybody like us. _ _
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I think what means the most about making my Opry debut is standing within the history
of what has [F] built country music.
It means a lot to me as a [C] musician, but it means just as much to me as a local kid.
Jelly [F] Roll.
[C] Mr.
Shermahorn, how are you?
I am well, sir.
Welcome to the Opry.
I brought my wife with me tonight.
We've been married for six years.
I brought my daughter with me.
She's my 13 year old, but she's ours.
My wife has [D] raised her as her own.
Everybody from my [Em] mother [D] to my cousin, my uncle, [C] my brother, everybody will be out there
tonight [D] for this.
This is big.
[C] I appreciate the opportunity to meet [Dm] you.
No, pleasure to meet you.
Thanks for taking the time to talk, man.
It means the world to me.
You took the time to come say hello.
Are you kidding?
I'll be honest.
I never planned on signing a record [D] deal.
I knew I was going to make a transition from hip hop to country and soulful singing and
music and [C] rock.
And I [D] just figured I'd have to figure a way to do it by myself until I met Jonathan Lowe.
And once I started listening to [Dm] music and discovering what Jelly Roll is about, I immediately
said, that's the guy.
That's [Gm] what we've been looking for.
I love you, brother.
I immediately called [D] my manager and said, we have to find a way to work with this guy.
He gets it.
I believe him.
[N] I believe Loba.
Come on, bro.
_ What's up, baby?
I'm so glad to be here, man. Congratulations, dude.
I'm honored, dude.
I am too, dude.
I'm honored to be here on your debut.
When I seen you here, I was like, I got a friend.
It looks big on TV, but it's even bigger in person. _
_ This might be the most legendary slab of wood in the United States of America.
_ [D] _ _ Tonight on the Opry [C] stage, the first song we're singing is Son of a Sinner.
I think this song is relatable to everybody.
Making his own history tonight.
The grand Ole Opry [G] debut of [D] Jelly Roll.
[G] I've _ _ _ _ [A] _ [Gm] _
been riding for this old boy.
I only [D] seen him in front of me.
Now the past is out of sight and out of mind.
I swear I've [Bm] changed now that I'm back chasing [D] these white lines.
I'm just a long-haired son of a sinner.
I'm searching [G] for new ways I can get young.
I think that no matter [D] where you are in your life, at some point you struggle [G] with being
somewhere in the middle of right and wrong.
[D] And I think everybody can relate to that in [A] one way or the other.
Well, I guess I'm just a [G] little right [D] and wrong. _ _ _ _ _ _
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As you listen around the world, the grand Ole Opry house on its feet, a standing ovation.
_ And the grand Ole Opry debut of Jelly Roll.
It was just surreal.
It was everything I wanted it to be.
I told [Ab] myself all day I'm not going to get emotional on the [C] stage.
I wasn't two seconds in that [Gb] circle before I [E] just couldn't stop crying.
If I was standing here today, I'm a testament that anybody can do it if you work. _ _
You've got to believe in yourself.
There's going to be a lot of times people won't believe in you.
But you've got to believe in yourself. _ _ _ _ _ _
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