Chords for Mary MCaslin Profile.

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_ I was young, so [Dm] much younger than today.
[Gm] Never needed [G] anybody's [D#] help [A#] in any way.
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_ [Dm] Help me not be fat.
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_ Won't [A#] you [D#] please, please [A#] help me?
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Looking at today's [F#m] artists and musical groups,
it's [A] easy to lose sight of how we got to where we are.
We sometimes forget the artists who broke ground,
shaped our [F#m] tastes, our expectations,
and in doing [D] so, became a part [A] of our cultural history.
Mary [D] McCaslin is one of our culture's great folk singers.
She's been called an [F#m] unbroken link between the traditional and modern folk [D] styles.
And in a world where [A] musical acts rise and fall without leaving [D] a mark,
Mary McCaslin's [F#m] 40 years of performing have left [D] a lasting impact on the face [A] of music.
Join us in celebrating her legacy [D] today. _
_ _ _ There's [F#m] a prairie in the sky, _ I'll find it by and [D] by.
_ _ [F#m] The first time I met Mary McCaslin was [D] in those folky days, or [A] the beginning days,
when I was trying to [D] figure out what to do.
I was playing solo things or maybe playing [A] with my brother.
No Nitty Gritty Dirt Band had started yet.
[D] But Mary always [C#] went after picking [A#] cool songs or something that matched [B] her voice
or doing something [F] unusual with [E] a banjo or a guitar.
I felt like she was somebody [F] that was [A] somehow stuck [C#] in the West Coast
when she was maybe from Boone County, Kentucky or something.
She didn't just go out and kind of play.
She wanted to get it [F#m] as good as we possibly could. _
And I [D] always respected her.
[A] Mary McCaslin and Jim Lewin.
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_ _ _ ride a big [C] blue rose, [G] I carry all I own.
[Em] In the pouches of [C] my saddlebag [G] with my pebble tied [C] behind. _ _
_ _ [G] There's a prairie in the [C]
sky, _ [G] I'll find it by and by.
_ _ [Em] I'll use the [C] brown and yellow [G] to make a soul [C] _ [G] unwind. _
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[G] _ _ Let the music take me home _ [G] to where a heart [C] may roam.
_ [Em] I'll fly [C] across the meadows, [G] touch the tall grass as [C] I go. _ _
_ Let [Em] the gentle [D] western wind [G] stay with me till the end.
[Em] _ Beside me till [D] the day is [G] done and the sun is settled low. _
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_ _ Leave the ponies to [C] run free, far [G] as the eye [C] can see.
_ [Em] I'd ride the [C] range forever _
[G] to see them once [C] _ _ again.
_ _ [Em] Let the white _ _ [D] _
wings [G] soar above me on their wings.
And the stars fill up [C] the night sky [G] and the moonlight of the plain. _ _
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[G] _ _ [C] I _ _ _ _ _ _ ride a big blue rose, _ [G] I carry all I own.
[Em] In the pouches of [C] my saddlebag [G] with my pebble tied behind. _ _ _ _
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_ _ Thank you, Jim Lewin.
This was great. _ _
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