Chords for Members of The Band Accept Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Award at 1994 Inductions

On behalf of my family, _ _ Richard's family, and I know Rick's family, _ from Richard's spirit, with all my heart, I thank you. _ _ _ _
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_ This will be short and sweet. _ _ _
I'd like to thank Phil Murphy and Alex Clark and Earl Ray, Nilly
Mulligan, Clifford Von Custer, _ _ Thomas [Bb] Chatto, Glenn Bricklin, _ Derek Knight, Johnny _ Downs, Tony
Caminiti, _ Eddie Bell, Ron Fleming, Bob Comber, _ Serge Danilov, Jack Wingate, _ Paul Hutchins, _ _ _ _ _ Paul
London, Bob Riley, Jerry Risser, Armon Beladian, _ Carmen [Gb] Allgrove, Joe Allgrove, Barbara Simpson,
_ Gordon _ _ Field, Clayt Hiley, Mike Timms, _ _ _ _ _ _ Ronnie Hawkins, _ _ Bob _ Dylan, _ _ _ _ Robbie Robertson, Wild Bill
Davis, _ Thumbs Carlisle, _ _ _ _ _ Joelle Sonnier, _ _ _ _ _ Clifford Scott, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I was talking to Marty Greb who is a triple
threat instrumentalist and an excellent songwriter. _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ Our last album, _ _ _ [Ab] I asked him, who's your favorite
tenor player?
_ You know, in this era they call now, I think the collectors have named it jump blues.
[G] Some collector told me it was _ _ _ _ urban small horn band jump blues. _ _ _
_ But that's the stuff I heard
Alan Freed play from Cleveland Akron before he went to New York _ _ and I picked up on all the tenor
players that I could hear [Gb] _ _ and _ _ _ _ there's one that I want to mention tonight, Clifford Scott, and you've
all heard him play.
Most of his work was done with _ the Bill _ Doggett quartet, Shape Shepard, Bill
Doggett, the great guitar player Billy Butler, _ _ and Clifford.
And you've all heard Honky Tonk. _ _ _ _
[Ab] I'd
like to thank his sister [F] _ [Bb] Marcy Jones for [Gb] keeping me in touch with Clifford. _ _
He's no longer with us,
he's a true hero. _
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_ _ _ _ To complete the list and bring everything up to date, Terry _ Baker, thank you.
_ Steve Martin, _ _ _ thanks to Dave Fishoff, Marcia Mason, Bruce Garfield, Stephen Rothenberg, _ Hal
Wilner, _ Stephen Semenowicz, _ _ _ Marianne Faithful, Ed Kasher, Ninad Bach, _ Sally Grossman, thank you
Sally.
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_ Ian Kimmett, _ _ _ _ Aaron Hurwitz, Anthony Aquilado, _ David A.
Bell, you all know David. _
[Gm] _ Special
thanks to Elizabeth Danko, Dominique Robertson, Sandra [B] _
Helm, _ and _ Richard's beautiful daughter Paula,
_ who's here tonight. _
_ And thank you to my wife Maude, _ _ _ [N] she couldn't make it. _
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And most of all,
special thanks _ to Joe Forno, who also has carried us through a very difficult period, and now we're
on the verge of something big.
Give us another year. _ _ _
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_ _ _ Well, first of all, I'd like to thank Garth
Hudson, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ of course all the people who voted for us, _ and my favorite _ spokesman for the band,
Eric Clapton. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ And thanks to Rock and Roll, and thank you. _ _ _
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_ _ First, I would like to say how grateful
I am for the opportunity to make music and records with Rick Danko, Garth Hudson, Levon
Helm, and Richard Manuel. _ _
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I'm convinced now, as I was then, that nobody in the world could sing
and play the songs that I wrote with as much believability and soulfulness as they have.
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an honor to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, just to be mentioned alongside the
recording artists who have been such a tremendous influence on us, _ Muddy and Elvis and Chuck and
Buddy and Ray and Mahalia Jackson, whom I hope will be acknowledged next year. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ We should thank
Ronnie Hawkins for being so instrumental in us coming together [Ab] and for teaching us [Gb] _ _ _ the _ code of
the road, so to speak. _ _
Bob Dylan for not caving in when we were being booed everywhere we played,
and when just about everybody was saying, get rid of these guys. _ _ _
He didn't budge.
I'd like to thank
Capitol Records for gambling on a band with no name, Mo Austin for supporting The Last Waltz,
David Geffen for helping reunite Bob and the band, and Elbert Grossman for his kitchen _ _ _ _ and his
guidance and for actually starting the whole Woodstock thing. _ _
[D] If it wasn't for Elbert,
the festival might have been called Poughkeepsie. _
_ The _ _ Poughkeepsie generation, [Abm] it just doesn't
quite have the same ring to it.
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I'd like to thank my friend Martin Scorsese for lending his
filmmaking genius to The Last Waltz, _ _ _ and _ _ _ of course all the great artists who performed in the film,
_ _ and Eric Clapton for being so gracious to induct us this evening. _ _ _
Most of all, I'd like to thank my
wife Dominique, who's been patiently putting up with me for 27 years, _ _ _ and our three children,
Alexandra, Delphine, and Sebastian, for being the truest inspiration in my life.
Thank you. _ _ _ _
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