Chords for Jim Lauderdale, "I'm A Song"

_ _ _ So this _ _ is _ my guitar, Coco.
I've had this guitar since 94 _ and I bought it from
at Gruen [Eb] Guitars here in Nashville.
_ _ And I started _ _ _ _ for _ years, you know, when I was a
kid I wanted to get a record deal and all this and so [D] that was my goal.
[F] _ _ [E]
And
_ [Gb] gosh [Eb] finally when [F] I was in my [Eb] mid-30s some things started happening but they
didn't really _ pan out _ _ _ _ for the first [Gb] two albums. _
But I started, _ _ people
started recording my songs and it was something that I never [D] had planned [E] on.
You know, I didn't intentionally _ plan on that happening.
It was almost as if it
just, _ not by accident, but I didn't consciously go in and say, hey I want to
pitch this to so-and-so.
But I _ had a publishing deal with an independent
publisher called Blue Water Music in Nashville.
_ And I was living in Los
Angeles at the time.
_ _ But _ anyway when people started cutting my songs I
went out and _ [F] _ got this [E]
Collings.
It was [Eb] brand new [D] back then and I put a lot of
wear [Eb] on it [D] through the years.
_ _ Cocoa as I call her.
[Ab] But _ _ [A] anyway _
_ _ _ _ _ [F] _ that's a
little [N] backstory on Cocoa.
But _ as I was, when I had recorded those nine songs
first for this record, and I'd never done a 20 song album before.
I tried a couple
of _ times and I kind of ran out of steam _ at 16.
And time wise too I
decided, all right I got to turn this in.
I got to get this [A] done. _
So _ [Eb] when I knew I
was going in for another batch in the [Gb] studio, _ _ _ this title just came to me.
And I
thought, well that's that's a good album title too.
_ And it kind of, you know, for
me it was like during _ _ periods, which happen a lot, [F] where I feel like I [E] don't
know, you know, what's going on in the [Eb] world or who I am or whatever.
And or
what I'm worth or what I can _ give or [A] anything.
And so [Db] I just [A] thought, you know
what?
And my best, my favorite moments it seems like in [F] life are these [Eb] kind of, _ _ _ _ you
know, _ _ _ [Gb]
times without thought or whatever where [Eb] a melody comes to me and a song
comes out.
And [E] _ _ so I just thought, well you know, that's that's my essence right
there.
That's really what [F] I am.
_ [A] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ I'm a _ song, _ _ I'm a _ song, _ _ and the band _ [E] _ plays on [A] and on. _
_ _ I can hear _ _ you sing along. _
_ _ _ I'm [D] a song, _ [E] _ _ I'm [A] a song, _ [B] _ _ [Db] _ _ [D] _ _
love _ on your _ _ harmony.
_ _ _ [B] _ _ _
You _ [Bm] sound so _ good [E] to me.
_ [A] You're _
a song, _ _ you're a _ song.
_ I [D] could _ stay [E] _ _ here [A] all day long.
_ _ We could _ _ _ dance until the _
dawn.
_ _ _ [D] We're a song, _ [E] _ _ we're [A] a song.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
Don't know _ another _ _ way.
_ _ [B] _ _ _
_ There's still [Bm] so _ [E] much
to say.
_ [A] I'm a song, _ _ _ I'm a _ song, _ _ _ and the _ band [E] _ _ plays [A] on and on.
_ _ _ I can hear _ _ you sing
along. _
_ _ _ _ I'm a song, [E] _ _ _ [A] I'm a song, _ _ _ I'm a _ _ song. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ You're a song, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ we're a _ _ _ _ song.
[E] _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Thanks. _