Chords for Jon Pardi - Part I: Intro To the Pardi

Tell me when you're ready.
Yeah!
Go!
Rock to the [G] Rocks, _ [C] if my baby [G] is gone.
_ _ [C] Go Rocks [G] to Tupac,
_ [Bm] Baby, your [G] country is [Bb] strong. _
[G] Go Rocks to Tupac,
_ [D] Baby, your country [G] is strong.
[C] [G] Go Rocks to Tupac, _ _
Yeah!
_ Ha, _ _ ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
Stand by! _ _
Hand!
Sleight of pleas.
[Db] There we go, stand by at the [Bb] top please.
Two cameras.
_ _ [D] _ Rolling and [Db] playback.
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[Bbm] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] This is California right [F] here, man.
_ This is [Ab] the mountains. _
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_ _ _ _ [Bbm] _ [Db] I've known John since I was a [Ebm] freshman in high [F] school.
He really wanted to [Fm] learn how to do the cowboy stuff,
roping and riding. _
And so we just started coming out here and riding around
and roping and [Bbm] just hanging out.
And as you [Dbm] can tell, it's a great place
to _
[Eb] come out and hang out for the day.
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_ _ Hello, Junior.
Larry!
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Hello, Johnny.
How you doing, big guy?
_ [Bbm] Man, growing up in California and being
in northern [Eb] California, you come out to the hills,
and you don't really [Ab] think about it, too.
I left, it's _ like going out to [Db] Chase's place,
going up to Lake Berryessa, and growing _ [Bbm] up
hunting at the gun [Eb] ranch.
It's like that was all [Ab] part of me.
I don't remember when you started.
At least the ranch in [Db] 1980.
1980.
_ 1980, [F] and _ [Ab]
we've been here, this will be our 32nd year.
I'm just [Db] excited to be here and show everybody
that we've been [Ab] here since I was [Bbm] 11, hiking and working.
Yeah, he did a lot of [Eb] work up here.
Of course, we was always hollering at him.
Yeah, just yelling.
God damn it, Junior, [Ab] get that shovel.
Get on this, get that.
He's always hustling, doing [Db] his best, doing a good job.
We are headed [Bbm] to my old high school right now.
We're going to meet up with my principal.
[Eb] That was the principal while I was in high school.
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The high school is shut down.
It's not.
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Nobody goes to class there anymore,
because they built a new high school.
[Bbm] So my old high school is where my grandma went to high school,
and my [Eb] dad went to high school.
It's crazy coming back here, man.
_ [Ab] That was the stage right there.
I can remember _ [Db] _ _ [Ab] you boys playing and getting a shout out
[Bbm] as you bust out [Eb] my favorite band. Oh, [Ab] yeah.
She'd be all night long.
We still play that song.
He started singing [Db] when he was around two.
He'd go with my mom, and [Bbm] she would sing to him.
So he started to learn to sing [Eb] after her and repeat her.
Sing loud.
I [Abm] was in kindergarten.
[Ab] They were making little paintings.
_ And John would be Merle Haggard one week.
_ And the next week, [Bbm] he's Garth Brooks.
And the next week, [F] he's George [Eb] Strait.
Next week, he's Randy Travis.
[Ab] Teacher calls us.
Son doesn't know what his name is. _
I go, what [Db] was that?
He goes, he keeps writing down all these [Ab] names.
I go, don't you ever listen to [Bbm] the radio?
His grandma [Eb] Loretta would get John,
[Ab] because he was really the only one that would go in the room
where she had the karaoke machine
and [Db] stay in there all day long singing.
I mean, he loved it.
And [Bbm] she loved country music, so that's [Eb] honestly
where he got his start.
If he didn't have a little guitar,
the little play guitars, he would grab his little [Ab] play
gun that had a strap, [Eb] and he would just
drum that gun, [Ab] a broomstick, _ anything for a microphone
that he [Db] could, a brush.
He would turn the brush [Ab] upside down.
It [Bbm] was a long time ago.
[Eb] But I remember I really enjoyed it, and it [Ab] was fun.
And my grandmother made it so much fun,
because she was such a fun person.
[Db] I'd like to share something that I found in a box,
[Bbm]
going for some old pictures and videos.
[Bb] Coming [Eb] across something that I never expected
was a letter that my son wrote when he was probably _ 14 or 15
when my mom had a heart attack
and went in to have open heart surgery,
but on the table she ended up having a stroke.
I'm trying not to cry.
Grandma, I went to [Ab] bed crying last night,
thinking about you and how you are [Db] such an inspiration to me.
[Ab] If you [Bbm] wouldn't have introduced me to country [Eb] music,
there would [Ab] be no singing.
You are the reason for my love of music,
[Db] why I couldn't go on a day without playing [Bbm] guitar,
why I will [Bb] never stop loving country music.
So that's [Eb] why I wrote this letter.
If anything ever would happen to [Ab] you,
I would never, ever forget you,
and the love that we [Db] shared, both with each other and music.
[Bb] But I never want to lose an inspiration,
and [Eb] especially a grandma.
Love, Jonathan.
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