MAYBE BABY - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band [Not Fade Away: Remembering Buddy Holly] Chords

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I've never admitted this before, but one of my great buddy Holly memories is standing
in front of a mirror with a tennis racket.
_ _ _ Playing along with old boy and Peggy Sue and that'll be the day. _ _
It was sort of, I mean I can see myself, Ed Angelo sitting on the bed waiting for his
turn to play the tennis racket.
And it wasn't, you know, a couple weeks [B] after that we [A] started learning how to play [F#] guitar.
_ To this day on stage at Nitty Gritty there's two songs where I do _ _ the_
The thing from Peggy Sue, I do it twice. _ _
Any chance he [C] goes_ _ _ _
[A] _ _ Yes, that's the [G] basis of it for me.
Everything that came [A] since is different.
One of the things I [F#m] loved about Buddy's guitar playing is [A] since he was the singer, he knew
where to put the [F#] licks.
He never stepped on his cell.
He was always this [E] _ great_
He was one of the guys that really established, in pop music at least, [A] that cool vocal feel
kind of, and in a real basic, listenable way.
You can sing Buddy's_
You can sing his solos just like his songs.
[A] It's just really, really cool.
[F#] He influenced me.
I [G#] had a pair of glasses that _ I wore all the way through_ _ _ _
[B] _ _ I'll set you back.
Bob, is that true?
Yeah.
All through junior high school and high school I [D] had a pair of black glasses [F] just like_
You know, horn [F#] rooms.
Guys get beat up a lot. _ _
[D#] Everybody looked like a dork back then.
Did you ever look at [E] bandstands?
All those kids looked [B] like dorks.
You know, there's a great album [Em] cover of his where he's not wearing the [G#] glasses.
What it looks like he's thinking is, where are my glasses? _
_ _ _ Oh, the [F#m] combo badge.
[B] You know, what's funny is, the first day I met Jeff, he came over with a couple of acoustic
guitars, trying to figure out whether I'd fit in with his band.
And he said, well, come on, let's sing something.
And the first thing we sang were Buddy Holly B-Sides.
It was like Buddy was the acid test.
It [Gm] was the fact that we both knew these kind of obscure Buddy Holly songs that made us
decide to work [F#] together.
Let me tell you how obscure some of these songs were.
I mean, I listened to these two guys sing these songs, like, years.
And, you know, I thought I knew every one of them.
[G] We'd be at a party some [G#m] night and they'd pull another one out of the hat [E] that I'd
never heard before.
I mean, it's [F#m] like_
There we go.
All right, guys, you're holding back on me.
You know, it just always surprised me.
_ It's hard not to consider what might have been if he lived, you know.
But he was such [F#] an amazing influence, like you said, in his 22 years on the planet, to
have [A] influenced everybody from The Beatles to now _ kids that are just picking up a guitar
for the first time now.
[F#m] _ _ _ _ [A] Maybe, baby, [F#m] _ I'll have [A] you.
Maybe, baby, _ you'll be true.
_ Maybe, baby, [D] I'll [E] have you [A] for me.
_ [E] _ _ _ _ [A] It's funny, honey, you don't care.
You never listen [F#m] to my _ [A] prayers.
Maybe, baby, [D] you will [E] love me [A] someday. _
_ _ _ Oh, well, [D] you are the one that makes me glad.
Any other one will just make me sad.
And when someday you want me, well, [E] I'll be there waiting and see.
What [F#m] we did with, you know, with Maybe, Baby in particular, _ the [A] first thing we did is we
slowed it down.
I understand.
[F#m] I was just asking about the pace.
Well, we took the [A] lyric.
Maybe, baby was kind [D] of a jumpy little [E] jitterbug record when Buddy cut it.
And one [C#m] of the things I think we got from it, it is [A] sort of a _ [F#m] lonesome [F#] plaintive tune.
And [A] it works.
It seems to work well [F#m] also by kind of pulling it back a little bit [A] and _ [D] getting that, [E] you
know, the tumbleweeds are blowing [Dm] down.
The moon's coming [A] in.
Foxhole harmonica.
Oh, [D] well, you are the one that makes me glad.
[A] Any other one will just make me sad.
[D] The four of us, and Jeff and I especially, have been [E] doing this song and so many other
Buddy Holly songs for so long that it's all muddled in our heads as to _ [A] what's Buddy's
version of it, [F#m] what's our version, what was [E] maybe the Everly Brothers of it if they had [F#m] done it.
There's some songs that we've, you know, it [A] gets all smeared together [D] in the 20 [E] some odd
years we've been [A] together.
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_ [F#m] _ _ _ _ [D] I think [A] something that we learned from a lot of the great music from [F#m] early rock and roll
that's [A] Buddy, I mean, is that [F#m] it's, it [A] doesn't, it's less is more, you know, it doesn't [F#m] take
a lot of [E] fancy licks and a lot [A] of fancy lyrics to [F#] get to people.
It's a musical legacy. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ Yeah, I'll take care of it.
You [A#] covered the mustache.
If I lost 100 pounds I'd look just [B] like him, don't you think?
Yeah.
Hey.