Chords for Marc Ford - Holy Ghost (The Story Behind The New Album)

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_ _ _ _ _ _ [F] Hello [Am] _ turquoise [G] blue.
I'm Mark Ford and I'm from Long Beach, California.
[C] Music kind of found me and [G] my grandmother was searching for _ antiques.
[D] I'd go with her every month to the Rose Bowl [G] flea market.
And _ one day I found an [D#] old toothless [F] crazy man [Am] _ [G] playing guitar.
And he was having the [F] best time [G] I've ever seen anyone have.
I was like, I [E] want that.
Sometimes I don't call when you're [A] calling.
[E] Elton John, Davy Johnson.
Not necessarily [G] the guitar, but that was the first music [A] that I _ [E] had.
Then I found her Beatle record [D] and my dad's [B] Creedence records
and [A] Simon and Garfunkel and [E] Jim Cook.
_ [B] You know, all the good stuff.
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[E] Well, the first band kind of grew out [C#] of _ [E] mom and dad's garage.
It turned [A] out to be Burnage Week.
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They'd come over early and we'd [D#] watch [E] _ The [D#] Kids Were [E] Alright or something,
or a Jimi Hendrix movie. _
_ And once we had enough [D#] coffee and enough [E] watching someone else,
we'd go directly to the garage and then do it as hard as we could.
I graduated high school in 84.
By 86, I [A] was getting rides up [E] to Hollywood to _ _ [A#] _ make it [B] happen.
_ [A] And then by [F#m] the end of [E] 91, we had opened up for Earth Crows
and _ _ all those relationships [A] started happening.
[B] By _ _ 92, _ I was playing with them.
_ _ [A] _ So I [E] arrived and it [A] was a _ [B] lot to handle when you're a young kid.
I got fucked up.
_ _ It _
[E] was [B] intense and it was fast.
What I thought I [E] wanted wasn't really [B] what I wanted.
That was my bat. _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ [B] If I was a [Em] bigger man at the time, [A#] I would have quit.
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[B] Most [F#] people that I looked up to died by the time they were 27.
So once I [E] hit 28, it was like, now what?
_ Elijah was around.
He was born when I [C#m] first started _ [E] with the Crows.
So he's _ 7, maybe 8. _
The [G] formative years, _ I missed those [D] years, being gone with them
[E] on [G] the tour, _ [D]
after [G] tour, after tour, after tour.
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[G] _ _ [Am] _ _ [G] Joining the Black Crows cut off [E] my relationship to [G] being a songwriter.
At the time, I was ready _ [Am] to [D] just [G] be a guitar player.
[D] But after a while, it got [G] to be a little bit of a drag
because I missed writing songs, telling my story about things.
_ _ _ [D] _ [Em] Elijah, he was [E] a young [G] man that had made [Am] some poor [G] choices.
Like Dad.
_ [F#m] _ I [G] just nabbed him up.
I said, look, I need somebody to go with me and play guitar.
[A] I'm going on [D] tour.
_ [G] _ That tour [Em] ended in, I'm not sure this [C] band is going to stay [G] together.
We should [Am] record it.
[G] _ [Am] And I had written some songs on the road, and so it was a buzz machine.
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_ _ It [Bm] was a long [D] process of [Am] finding a center to stand on.
So [E] my wife and I had divorced and [D] remarried and [Am] broke up
and got back together.
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It was just this constant [D] sort of trail of _ where's the truth, really.
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[Em] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _
[Am] I meet this [D] _ [G] beautiful piano player in [Em] Sweden.
He was [G] playing with Pee Wee Ellis. _
I was playing with Booker T.
[Am] _ [G] We just sort of hit it off.
And then they were [E] trying to get [Em] me to come and [D] play [C] guitar on their record.
And I [G] said, well, why don't [Am] you come out and [D] we redo [G] it.
And so [E] Phantom Lin [Em] came out to _ [C] Long Beach [Bm] Compound
and [Am]
made a [G] great record with [Am] Stu Jackson at the helm. _ _
_ [F#] A couple years [D] later, well, I have these great songs
that I think are maybe my [E] best [Am] ones.
I called Stu and I'm like, you know, you have a bitchin' band
and [D] I've got some pretty good songs.
You [Bm] produce it.
I'm done producing [Am] myself.
_ So Stu [E] said, yeah, get here, get to England. _
[D] Tracked at Rockfield, which was [G] fantastic.
We sat in front of the big giant speakers and [Em] nice [G] beautiful board.
_ I said, Elijah, this is what [Am] music used to sound like [D] all the time.
[G] So we tracked all the tunes in a few days
and then ended up here in a shed.
[C] I [G] finished it by the river.
[A] Stu Jackson [G] knows what he's doing.
If he was here [D] right now, he'd probably say
he didn't have to do too much.
And that would be correct.
It [F#m] was just a wonderful mixture of [A] the right people doing the right thing.
[D] _ But there were a couple of times when I was like, well, I,
[A] Blue Sky maybe, you know, I had tried to demo that thing
and I [D] just couldn't get out of the sort of Jeff [Bm] Lynne _ thing.
[F#m] _ And Stu came [A] running out and he _ [D] whispered to Matt _
[E] and did some arm [Bm] movement.
[F#m] All of a sudden we had _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ [D] _ and [F#m] it's like right on the head.
_ [G] It's full of _ _
[Gm] my best friends and my [D] family.
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And I couldn't be [D] happier. _ _ _ _
It's a beautiful record.
[A] _ Set aside some time to _ _ clear out your day in your head
and put it on and just [D] sit there and listen to it as a [F#] whole piece
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[Gm] and see what happens.
[D] Holy Ghost is just _
[A] a _ [D] _ straight dose.
It's [Bm] pure.
_ _ _ [F#m] _ It might [A] kill you.
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