Chords for Keith Richards inducts ZZ Top Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductions 2004

[E] _ [A] _ _ [E] To induct ZZ Top into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, ladies [B] and gentlemen, Keith Richards.
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[N] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Ladies _ and _ _ gentlemen, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ how you doing? _ _
[B] _ Hey, I guess [C#] we all still have [N] jobs.
Okay.
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Sorry, _ _ Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, right? _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Yeah.
_ _ What's it all about?
I guess we're talking about _ _
_ _ _ _ consistency and longevity. _
Believe me, I know all about it. _ _ _
No notes.
Ten bucks. _ _ _
_ It's _ _ _ _ _ _ only rock and roll.
[Fm] _ _ [Em] _ _
_ [N] Yeah.
_ _ Cool.
Anyway, where was I?
Oh, consistency _ and longevity, right?
Which means
_ who can do it good longest.
We all know about that, ladies, right? _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ And I'm going to talk to you a little bit, you know, about why I'm here, which is to bring in
a bunch of great guys, _
which to me, I mean, Texas, you know, the heart of the matter is rock and roll and the blues.
We have to talk about the blues here because we cannot leave it out, right?
_ Without it, we're nowhere.
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[C] And these cats are steeped in the [N] blues. _ _ _
_ _ So am I.
I'm steeped in several other things as well. _ _ _ _
There's neither here nor there, you know, bada bing, bada bang, bada boom.
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[Em] But I, you know, _ it's
rock and roll is a win.
[N] We just had the Dells on.
I mean, what a pleasure, you know, through a Prince for kicking it off.
_ Dynamite, you know, Jackson.
What a variety, what a
expression of music has come out of us all and without getting too deep because I'm not going to go into the spirit.
Oh, by the way, thanks to all your mothers.
That's that, right?
_ _ Anybody _ _ _ _ _ else I missed? _ _
_ _ _ And [Bm] what I want to say about [E] the guys that I'm going to bring on,
you know, is this is a solid band.
This is the heartbeat
of the whole country, the whole of rock [N] and roll.
This is roots.
These cats know their blues
and they know how to dress it up.
When I first saw them,
I thought, I hope these guys are not on the run because that disguise is not going to work, man. _ _ _
_ You're busted. _ _ _
But _ _ _ _ obviously they're still on the run and the frame held.
And so it's really my honor, my joy to bring on ZZ Top.
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