Chords for Mary Chapin Carpenter | Songs from the Movie

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The stars are out tonight, [Cm] the breeze is warm and light, as [Bb] I'm walking right back to you.
The title, Songs from the Movie, came about because the idea that a cinematic [Eb] treatment
[Bb] of songs is what I wanted to try to go for.
If I ever had a chance [Eb] to have [Bb] someone arrange
my songs for an orchestra, that Vince Mendoza would be the one person I would go to to ask
to do it.
His work is so distinctive, it's so emotional, it's so evocative, [Eb] and it just
meant [Bb] everything to me, the idea of working with him.
The [Eb] honesty of the [Bb] lyrics really [C] opens up an entire emotional [Bb] world to me.
It's his
work, and to have Mary Chapin with us, [Bbm] with the orchestra, of course brings the [Bb] quality
of the performance for the orchestra up many [E] notches.
And really hearing her deliver the
lyric for the first [Gm] time with the [F] live orchestra, then you go, oh yeah, okay, [Bbm] right, this is right.
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[Eb] _ _ [Bbm] One [C] of the things that was so special about making [D] this record was that I got to travel
[G] to London and return to a [C] place where I had worked once before, the wonderful [D] Ayr Studios
in London.
[G] It's an extraordinary [Em] place, it's an old church that has been divided up into
studios.
There's a lot of magic in [D] those rooms.
Working with the players in the orchestra,
working with Vince, working with Jeff the engineer and Matt Rawlings, my co-producer,
[Em] and Peter Erskine is one of the most [E] delightful, lovely, [G] loving, [Em] beautiful souls I've ever
[C] encountered as a person, as a [D] musician.
He's off the [G] charts.
The very first day when I
stepped into the [C] control room at Ayr and Vince started conducting the first song [G] and
it came through the speakers and it was the [C] most extraordinary thing.
[D] It was a physical
[G] sensation of being pushed back [C] by the sound coming through the speakers.
[D] It was some of
the [G] most amazing hours I've ever spent.
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_ [A] _ _ _ [D] On and On It Goes was inspired by a bumper sticker
that I saw one day that said, Everything is [G] Connected.
I was just [C] trying to write about
the idea that the [Bm] most random events [G] end up taking [C] you places that [Em] you just never imagined
[D] and [G] trying to reconcile the idea of being open to that as well as believing that everything
that's supposed to happen does.
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_ _ [E] _ _ [G] _ The [Bb] themes that I write about have [Eb] never really [Bb] changed
all that much in the sense that they're [Eb] about moving [F] through the world, loss, joy, [C] love,
finding love, losing love.
I feel that those threads run through these songs in subject
matter, in [Eb] feel, in presentation.
They [D] all do seem to [Bb] be connected even [Eb] though they come
from many different years and many different albums. _ _ _
[F] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ [Dm] It's such a different way to present
my [F] work.
I've never done anything [Eb] like this.
It's [F] tremendously exciting.
It's [Eb] a little
scary, [F] but that's good.
That's the best [Eb] way to feel, I think, [F] and it's not something to
shy away from.
I [Eb] hope I never get to a place in my life where I don't [F] do something because
it's too scary.
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