Chords for John Fogerty TV 1985

[Bm] _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] We came [A] out of San [C] Francisco, right?
[A]
But [C] I wasn't into [Em] [F] psychedelia and all that, which was, [D] hey, let's smoke a joint and listen
to this song that's 12 minutes long, you know?
We made singles.
We tried to do it in two [G] minutes.
To me, rock and roll is meant to be done in about two and a half minutes.
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[E] _ _ [Em] _ _ [Bb] _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ So, John, where have you been for the past ten years?
[F] I was chained to a [Ab] wall by the ankle.
And _ yeah, yeah, John, keep writing those hits and, you know, we'll take our lion's share
and we'll feed you a bone every once in a while.
How's that?
Uh, gee, I think I won't do that.
So, you know, I stayed chained to the wall in a dungeon.
And that's where I've been, you know.
Finally, they call it politely legal hassles, folks.
But actually every day you get up and it's a little more heavy duty than a lightweight
phrase like that.
So, you know, after several years of fighting it with tall buildings and briefcases, [C] I'm
now [Ab] [C] free to do [E] music.
He take a thunder from the sky.
He take a lightning from the sky.
[G] He bring a strong man to [E] his balcony.
He make the younger mom cry.
Why did you decide to play all of the instruments on this album yourself?
Even when I was a kid, I used to think of records in terms of all the different parts.
It's just the way I listened to them.
You know, when I'd listen to Elvis or Bo Diddley or whoever.
I always listened to all of it, not just the guitar [C] player.
And had even wondered as [E] a kid, you know, it'd be neat to sort of play all the instruments.
And that's what I started to do, to keep busy, to keep from going nuts.
I play bass, keyboard, sax, drums, [Am] guitar, [E] triangle.
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[D] _ [E] Down the road.
_ It's basically a song about confrontation.
It's the way I look at it.
Everybody has to confront that old man somewhere in his life, maybe more than once.
I really didn't think I was going to do a video.
All during while I was making [C] the album, you know, the guys would ask, maybe somebody,
the secretary or somebody, you know, when are you going to do a video?
Or what's your video going to be?
As an assumed thing.
And I always said, I'm not doing a video.
You know, flat.
Just not doing one.
And really why was the way I feel that way was, as a writer of tunes,
as a guy who puts words together, _ you want people to use their own [E] imagination.
You got to hide and hide and hide.
[C] The old man [D] is [E] down the road. _
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[Em] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
[Em] _ _ _ [E] _ [Em] _ _ _ _
So like we're doing the [E] old man down the road, it may be forever frozen into this video.
This video probably won't look exactly like it does in my mind, you know.
But I'm sure after people see the video, they will forever think of the old man down the road
in whatever context this video is.
And that's kind of sad to me. _ _
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You know, music is actually cool.
I feel like, I feel just the same as I did 14 years ago.
And I have a feeling that there's a lot of other people going, gee, in 1970, I [G] stopped.
This life went into my, quote, mature life.
And now, you know, that I've, whatever, I've done that for 10 years or so.
I'm finding out that this thing 10, 12 years ago was pretty neat.
And here's a reminder of it.
Right now, in 1985.
[F] And finally, it was my own idea to have Dance Can't Dance be a [Bb] claymation [F] type thing.
[Dm] _ _ _ I [G] don't think I expected [Ebm] things to happen so quickly.
_ _ [E] It's been wonderful.
You know, I finally got out and played in front of people.
That was neat.
[C] The old man [D] is [E] down the road. _ _ _ _
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I was more nervous [A] than I cared to admit at the [E] time.
In fact, we had a little miscue at the beginning of one of the songs.
And I never even noticed.
If I'd have heard it going like that at the time, I'd have probably dropped my guitar.
I mean, I just really didn't realize.
I was just kind of, you know, yeah, I was pretty nervous about it.
Really excited.
_ [N] How _ _ _ _ _ _ _ are you approaching the new album now?
Right now, I'm just, I'm in the writing stage.
And for me, that means writing melody, arrangement, sound with no words.
Because the words are the hardest for me.
It's like I'll write hundreds of different things before I'll finally choose 10 or 20 to finish.
The only way to do it is to discipline yourself enough to sit there and go through it.
You know, usually it's drum, machine, guitar, and I add bass.
Then I'll add a keyboard part or another guitar part.
First, I guess I set up a drum pattern against the guitar. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Gbm] And then, _ _ _ _ _ _ that's just a keyboard sounding like an organ, okay?
[A] _ This [Gbm] keyboard's sounding like a piano. _
_ _ _ Then I [Bm] had done the bass part. _
_ [A] I'm going through exactly the same [Gbm] process that I went through with [Bm] Centerfield.
Or any of [Gbm] the other ones with Creedence, actually.
You know, when it's ready, [Bm] it's ready.
It's like somehow I [D] know I've got [A] that sense back.
It's a real nice feeling.
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_ [A] _ _ [C] And [G] that's all there is to it.
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