Chords for John Hiatt - "Long Time Coming" (plus interview)

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[B] _ _ _ [Em] I bought this guitar, let's see, about 86, _ _ _ from _ Gruen Guitars in Nashville.
And I bought it from a young man who was working there, and I can't think of his name, but
it was his.
_ _ And I think I paid 800 bucks for it.
It's a [E] 47 _ LG2.
_ I _ _ _ _ _ _ just picked it up and immediately, you know, it just had that _ _ thing where it just resonates
with you and you just sort of get all connected up with it.
The chords just feel right.
I love it.
I'd like to play it on stage, but it's just a little tender, fragile.
Sometimes I'll pick up the, [A] I got a couple of J45s.
I've got some from the [E] 80s, which I guess now are officially old [A] guitars.
It's [E] funny how that works.
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_ _ _ I [A] was writing songs as [F] soon as I knew three chords, while everyone else was getting their chops going.
My friends [Bb] _ _ [B] were learning _ licks.
[F] All I wanted was a couple of chords.
I got a Mel Bay [Db] book.
As soon as I knew three or four [Abm] chords, you [Bb] know, it's like I had to start [E] writing songs.
It's just what I [A] was going to do.
_ _ _ [E] _ Down some roads [A] of silver and [E] gold, _ _ [A] but I could never [E] find you. _ _
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_ [B] I've been living my life like a lonesome whistle [A] blowing. _
Now I can't turn back.
I was [Abm] working for a year before I [E] came to Nashville. _
_ [B] I had just one insurance company.
[A] I was like one of the [Bm] stock boys in [E] the basement [B] that put all their [E] paper [A] _ [Bm] products together
[F] to send out to [E] the insurance company.
That's what I did.
The last regular job I worked for, I decided to move to Nashville _ because it was the closest
music center _ [A] to the Indianapolis office.
I was too [E] much of a _ _ Midwest kid to think about going to LA.
New York even was too scary. _ _
I used to [A] hitchhike home [E] to eat.
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I played these [A] songs a thousand times [E] _ _ [A] _ ever since [E] I was young. _ _ _ _
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It's too early for me to sing a song.
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