Chords for jesse winchester interview

_ _ [N] Well, I'm here with Jesse Winchester.
It's such a pleasure and honour to be here.
Great show tonight.
Thank you.
And great to hear you back in Canada.
You know, you sang Chamalingdongding tonight and you got a great [D] response to that.
And at the beginning of the show, I think there was some reference to the fact that
you played that recently on Elvis Costello's show, Spectacle.
And I don't know if you've looked at your YouTube hits on that.
But I mean, you know, that's virtually like a 45 making [B] its way around the world right now.
Oh yeah?
And that's being posted to a lot of people's Facebook pages.
I don't even know if it's a legal version, you know.
But I mean, a lot of people are hearing you again and hearing that song.
And there's a beautiful moment in that scene.
You're playing and you're next to Nico Case, Elvis Costello, Cheryl Crow and our own Ron
Sexsmith, of whom we're very proud as well.
Yes, justly so.
And my goodness, you just move everybody to tears.
You moved everybody to tears tonight.
And what does that feel like?
I really don't have words to describe what the [C] time seems to stand [N] still when it's going like.
You know, you're a musician, you know.
It just stops and nobody breathes.
It just, it becomes hyper real, you know.
Could you feel that in that performance or do you feel that [G] at different times?
I feel, you know, this is immodest to say, I'm sorry, but when you experience that feeling,
you're kind of not satisfied with anyone else anymore, you know.
You know, and when it doesn't happen, you get, you start to get frustrated.
You can feel it not happening.
But no one else knows it's not [E] happening, right?
Well, that's, that's Lord's mercy is what that is.
In listening to your work, I mean, [C] you're, right now you're touring as one man with a six string guitar.
You know, you're sitting there and you're playing [B] your songs and it would be easy to say [E] folk singer.
I never liked folk music when I was young.
I always thought they were communist.
_ _ And my whole idea all along was to write hit record.
I'm trying to write pop.
I'm trying to write 45 singers.
We don't have 45s anymore.
I know that.
But that's what I'm trying to do.
[Bb] You seem to have a sense of meter that is breathed [E] properly.
Okay, like there's a, there's, there's the right amount of space in there to give the sense that you're [Bb] confident with your craft.
As a [Gb] writer.
And to me, that's, that just, that just makes it breathe.
Where did that come from for [E] you?
The country tradition, the rules of country music.
Like Harlan Howe, you mentioned Harlan Howe, the three chords and the truth.
That was his motto.
Which is very [Bb] associated with you now, by the way.
I think [E] it's a good motto.
Three chords and the truth.
How do you know the truth though?
Is there a writer's truth and then some other truth that's harder to get at?
[Bb] That comes from _ singing a song live for people [E] over and over again.
You, when you do that repeatedly, before you record it, you get to know what works and what doesn't.
And extraneous words just sort of get dropped.
And you just wind up with, with something that's distilled.
[Bb] It's, it comes from somewhere real.
I mean, even if you're making the entire thing up.
At least it, you know, the feelings or whatever are real.
So, the whole thing is just, for me, has [Bb] been a real long learning process.
You know, it makes me think of the very first song of yours that I remember being deeply moved by was Mississippi You're On [Ab] My Mind.
I remember a guy who's a bit older than me sitting me down and saying, you write songs, you need to hear this song.
The myth around that for us here in Canada was [D] that was your plaintiff's song.
That was about being stuck here.
And, you know, you were sort of widely known as this guy who got stuck on the other side of the border due to the Vietnam War and all that.
Did that come from that place?
Or did that [Ab] come from some other, from this other kind of truth we're talking about where it just feels damn real to [E] sing it?
You know, I don't think, maybe I didn't let myself feel wistful or homesick.
But I really didn't spend a lot of time being homesick.
I took to Canada and Quebec right away.
[Bb] Listen, I so much appreciate your time.
I know it's been a long night.
I have one little thing I wanted to give you, okay?
Okay.
Because I understand you live stateside now, but from Roots Music Canada to you, if you could ever use [E] this, _ _ [Em] _ _ you know, you can maybe [N] hang it off a boulder or shed or something.
Oh, beautiful, man.
Hey, buddy.
It's great to have you up here and to hear you and to see you doing so well.
And we'll be here when you come back.
Oh, well, thank you, David.
Hey, thank you, buddy.
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